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Someday, succulents might keep spacefarers company.
space exploration

When We All Move to Space, We'll Have to Be Picky About Houseplants

Which are best suited for a life among the stars?
Jessica Leigh Hester April 11, 2019
This panorama, captured in January 2017, looks out at higher reaches of Mount Sharp.
space exploration

Why Does This Picture From Mars Look Like a Riverbed on Earth?

A familiar sight, millions of miles away.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 29, 2019
Space Food Sticks, relaunched for earthlings in 2006.
space exploration

The Oddly Named Energy Bar That Rocketed to the Moon

Pillsbury designed Space Food Sticks for astronauts before launching them in grocery stores.
Rohini Chaki March 6, 2019
SpaceX's Falcon 9 leaps into the stars.
space exploration

Austin Just Sent Its Favorite Queso Recipe to the Moon

One small step for cheese, one giant leap for cheese.
Reina Gattuso February 26, 2019
The surface of Bennu, up close.
space exploration

A New, Up-Close Look at an Old, Near-Earth Asteroid

The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx gives us a startlingly clear view of space rock that probably won't hit us.
Evan Nicole Brown January 29, 2019
nazis

What Does This Alien Minor Planet Look Like?

A peanut? Or maybe a bowling pin?
Jessica Leigh Hester January 3, 2019
Chicago, Illinois

Cosmic Ray Detectors

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.
Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility.
Sandusky, Ohio

Plum Brook Station (Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility)

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.
The observatory.
Bogotá, Colombia

National Observatory of Colombia

Erected in 1803, it is the first astronomical observatory that was built in the Americas.
Grissom Rocket Monument.
Mitchell, Indiana

Virgil I. Gus Grissom Rocket Monument

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.
space exploration

One Family's Hidden Museum of Retro-Future Artifacts

Meet the Kleemans and their vast collection of space-age toys and ephemera.
Lizzie Philip September 25, 2018
Video • AO Docs

One Family's Private Museum of Retro-Future Artifacts

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The sign.
Glenelg, Scotland

Glenelg Welcome Sign

The sign announces the Scottish village's cosmic connections, as it's twinned with Glenelg, Mars.
The <em>Pathfinder</em> touched down on Mars on July 4, 1997.
maps

Revisiting a 1958 Map of Space Mysteries

What have we learned about the cosmos over the past 60 years?
Jessica Leigh Hester August 24, 2018
The cover of the Voyager Golden Record. Two of these are currently hurtling through space aboard probes, ready to be found by aliens.
space exploration

Aliens Might Never Appreciate How Cool Voyager's Golden Record Is

If they find it, they may just be confused.
Cara Giaimo June 1, 2018
Left to right: Nikolai Fedorov in his study and his monument in Borovsk, Kaluga Oblast.
space exploration

The Russian Philosopher Who Sought Immortality in the Cosmos

To create the Kingdom of Heaven, simply reanimate the space-strewn molecules of your ancestors.
Addison Nugent May 29, 2018
Some of Charon's newly named features.
space exploration

There's Now a Space Mountain Named for Octavia Butler

It's on Pluto's moon, Charon, which also boasts landscape features that honor Stanley Kubrick and Dorothy Gale.
Cara Giaimo April 12, 2018
space exploration

GIFs in Space!

The format gives classic photos from the Apollo missions new life.
Cara Giaimo April 5, 2018