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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a Wolf-Rayet, an absolutely massive classification of star that is on the verge of a supernova.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Breathtaking Image of a Titanic Star That’s About to Explode

By Frank Landymore

NASA could be getting a bigger budget next year, with hopes of allocating money to developing its own spacecraft to retire the ISS.

NASA Wants to Build a Special Spacecraft to Destroy the ISS

By Frank Landymore

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Demolishes Hubble’s Record of Fitting the Most Galaxies in a Single Image

By Frank Landymore

Elementary school students have discovered that EpiPens can turn poisonous after being launched into space due to space radiation.

NASA Surprised When School Children Discover That EpiPens Become Toxic in Space

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has reinforced the launch date for its crewed Artemis II Moon mission next year — that is, if they're able to make it.

NASA Says It’ll Be Launching Crewed Moon Mission Around Thanksgiving 2024

By Noor Al-Sibai

As part of a Mars cloud survey, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged spectacular crepuscular rays for the first time during an especially painterly sunset.

NASA Rover Snaps Amazing View of Sunset on Mars

By Frank Landymore

Mistakes are bound to happen in rocket launches, but a massive one last summer resulted in a rocket launch company losing two NASA satellites.

Government Contractor Lost Two NASA Satellites, Company Admits

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of large asteroids lurking between Mars and Jupiter are an awful lot like the dwarf planet Ceres, and are harboring tons of water.

NASA Astronomers Identify “Dark Asteroids” Brimming With Water

By Frank Landymore

Lazarus, a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang clan who happens to be a practicing physician, is also a space nerd eager to debut his single from the ISS.

Wu-Tang Affiliate Collaborates With NASA to Release Rap Song About Space

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab are studying the earliest chemical reactions that may have led to the formation of life on Earth.

NASA Facility Replicating Conditions to Form Life

By Victor Tangermann

Using old data, NASA has discovered that Venus' mantle may be "squishy" and full of volcanic activity, which could explain one of its biggest mysteries.

NASA Says Venus Is Being Remade by a Squishy Shell

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's analysis of Ryugu asteroid samples revealed chemical compounds that support the theory that space dust contains the building blocks for life.

NASA First Look at Japanese Asteroid Samples Reveal the Building Blocks for Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bad news if you're hoping to hear about definitive signs of Martian life soon: the instruments of Mars rovers just aren't advanced enough.

Scientists Find NASA’s Mars Rover Would Struggle to Detect Life on Earth

By Frank Landymore

The proposed NASA probe would "explore how Uranus formed; how much it migrated after formation; the planet's interior structure," and much more.

NASA Scientist Calls for Exploration of Uranus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After another coollant leak on a Russian spacecraft, NASA and Roscosmos are indefinitely postponing the return flight for the astronauts on the ISS.

Damaged Russian Spacecraft Means NASA Astronauts Might Stay Stuck on the ISS

By Noor Al-Sibai

A second Russian spacecraft docked to the International Space Station has sprung a leak in one of its coolant lines in just a matter of months.

International Space Station

Another Russian Spacecraft Docked to the ISS Just Sprang a Leak

By Victor Tangermann

We have a humble suggestion: NASA should make interplanetary history once more by having its Ingenuity Mars helicopter do some sick tricks.

Suggestion: NASA Should Make Its Mars Helicopter Do Some Gnarly Tricks From “Tony Hawk”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has made yet another astonishing discovery: "the mission's clearest evidence yet" of "ancient water ripples."

NASA Rover Finds What Appears to Be Ancient Water Ripple on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is adjusting its orbit to make sure it won't get pelted with even more micrometeorites.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Adjusting James Webb Orbit to Get Damaged by Micrometeoroids Less

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced the accidental discovery of an "extremely small" asteroid by the James Webb Space Telescope — but in space, size is relative.

James Webb Space Telescope

Baby Asteroid Photobombs James Webb On Accident

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have now pinpointed the location of an "engine" overpowering a galactic merger with infrared light.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Reveals Mysteriously Powerful “Engine” of Two Merging Galaxies

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet's barren surface, an iron-nickel meteorite.

NASA Mars Rover Finds Metallic Object That Smashed Down on Surface

By Victor Tangermann

There might be an upside to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope being pelted by showers of micrometeorites once to twice a month.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Say There’s an Upside to Those Rocks That Keep Bludgeoning the James Webb

By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station is, without a doubt, really awesome — but even NASA has to admit when the ISS has reached its limits.

NASA Official Admits There’s a Bit of an Issue on the Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

After almost two years of roaming the surface, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially dropped off the tenth and final Martian soil sample.

NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance Just Dropped Off Its Last Sample

By Victor Tangermann

As the Artemis mission's 2024 launch date steadily approaches, NASA is undertaking its secretive selection process to decide who will be sent to the Moon.

NASA Finalizing Secretive Decision on First Astronauts for the Artemis Moon Mission

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb was able to spot the coldest ice on record that may hold clues to the formation of organic molecules across the universe.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Discovers Coldest Ice in Known Universe, Harboring Molecules Essential For Life

By Frank Landymore

NASA has announced that it's setting up a facility specifically to deposit Mars rock samples, which may contain traces of ancient life on the Red Planet.

NASA Setting Up Facility For Mars Rock Samples That Might Contain Alien Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

First spotted in 2013, astronomers have come back for another, extremely rarely look at the centaur called Chariklo that they now think harbors ice water.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Asteroid With Its Own Saturn-Like Rings

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo of an unusually mammalian structure on our dusty red neighbor. Definitely looks like a bear.

Internet Erupts as NASA Spots Cartoon Bear on Surface of Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the instruments attached to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has encountered a glitch, making it "currently unavailable for science observations."

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Says Another James Webb Instrument Has Suffered a Glitch

By Victor Tangermann

After trying and failing for over a year, NASA scientists have suspended further deployment attempts of the Lucy spacecraft's solar array.

NASA Says Lucy Spacecraft Will Forge Ahead With Busted Solar Array

By Frank Landymore

Freshman congressman and alleged serial liar George Santos will soon be sitting on a committee charged with overseeing NASA.

Serial Liar George Santos Tapped For Committee in Charge of NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA just found a second Earth-sized planet orbiting a nearby dwarf star, and it may, the agency notes, potentially be habitable.

NASA Just Discovered an Earth-Like Habitable Planet Orbiting a Nearby Star

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has issued a grant for an autonomous aircraft concept dubbed TitanAir designed to skim over the liquid methane lakes of Saturn's icy moon Titan.

NASA Considers Surfing the Lakes of Saturn’s Moon With an Autonomous Airplane

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced details about the multi-billion successor to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope called the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

NASA Unveils Plan for Giant Telescope to Spot Life on Alien Planets

By Victor Tangermann

A derelict NASA satellite called Earth Radiation Budget Satellite has plummeted back to Earth after spending almost four decades in orbit.

Derelict NASA Satellite Crashes Down to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Russia Slaps Down Plan for SpaceX to Rescue NASA Astronaut Stranded By Leaking Soyuz Spacecraft

Russia Slaps Down Plan for SpaceX to Rescue NASA Astronaut Stranded By Leaking Soyuz Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe to have discovered a massive cache of precious gemstones on the surface of Mars in the form of opals.

NASA Discovers Precious Gemstones on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator and former astronaut Bill Nelson is afraid that China may get to the Moon first — and claim portions of the surface as its own territory.

The Head of NASA Is Scared Chinese Astronauts Will Seize Portions of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's InSight Lander has persevered for four years, but it may actually be drawing to its final end this time, despite rumblings of its demise before.

Dramatic NASA Mars Lander Insists It’s Dying For Real This Time

By Frank Landymore

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which is currently docked to the ISS, sprung a leak. Officials have now identified a hole following an inspection.

International Space Station

Russia Finds Hole in Spacecraft Docked to International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is very pleased with just how much material was released when it intentionally smashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in September.

NASA Pleased With the Degree to Which It Kicked This Asteroid’s A**

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released a stunning infrared image of Jupiter's moon Io, which shows the celestial body's volcanically-active surface.

NASA Spacecraft Snaps Incredible Image of Volcano-Covered Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news for astronauts looking to go home: their ride back, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, suddenly started leaking uncontrollably.

International Space Station

Russian Spacecraft Docked to ISS Sprays Fluid Into Space, Seemingly Struck by Micrometeorite

By Frank Landymore

With hard work and a good luck, scientists have clinched the first ever audio recording of a dust devil on Mars, helping solve mysteries of its atmosphere.

Scientists Release Audio of NASA Rover Getting Swallowed by a 387 Foot Dust Devil On Mars

By Frank Landymore

Who better than to call Elon Musk out on extremely gross, transphobic behavior than fellow Space Dude and Outspoken Guy, former US astronaut Scott Kelly?

Elon Musk Rages as NASA Astronaut Calls Out His Transphobia and Conspiracy Theories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA administrator and former astronaut Bill Nelson is relieved that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk isn't actually in charge of running the space company.

Head of NASA Relieved to Hear Elon Musk Isn’t REALLY Running SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

Titan is Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, and new observations from the James Webb may help understand how it formed its unique atmosphere.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Captures Its First Look At Saturn’s Most Mysterious Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA announced that teams have lost contact with its CubeSat to Study Solar Particles (CuSP), which was deployed by Artemis I last month.

Another Satellite Released by NASA’s Artemis I Just Croaked

By Victor Tangermann

There's still no definitive answer as to what that bizarre smell is on the ISS, but a new report may provide some clues — and they're pretty gross.

International Space Station

New Details Emerge About the “Peculiar Odor” on International Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

Part of the maiden voyage of NASA's Artemis Moon mission, the Orion capsule is now headed back from lunar orbit and will splash down soon in the Pacific.

Skkrt! NASA’s Orion Heads Back to Earth, Leaves Moon in the Dust

By Noor Al-Sibai

YouTuber extraordinaire and NASA alum Mark Rober took it upon himself to launch an egg into space only to release it and have it land safely.

Former NASA Guy Drops Egg Out of Space, Tries to Keep It From Breaking

By Victor Tangermann

Lockheed Martin showed off an Amazon Alexa-enabled "party mode" on board NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft, which is making its way around the Moon.

NASA Shows Off Artemis “Party Mode,” Powered by Amazon (TM) Alexa (TM)

By Victor Tangermann

3D printing firm ICON just landed a $57.2 million contract from NASA for Project Olympus, the company's mission to create 3D-printed Moon shelters.

NASA Hires Company to 3D Print American Base on the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The OMOTENASHI (Outstanding MOon exploration TEchnologies demonstrated by NAno Semi-Hard Impactor), a JAXA CubeSat that launched with Artemis I, has failed.

Lunar Lander Released by NASA’s Artemis 1 Mission Dies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The next Indiana Jones film, set in 1969, features Indy fighting NASA Nazis. The sad truth? A few of these guys actually existed.

Bad Guy in New “Indiana Jones” Movie Is Nazi Who Works at NASA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Artemis mission has, after months of delay and tens of billions of dollars, finally reached the Moon, which it will orbit for the next 3.5 weeks.

Rejoice! NASA’s Artemis I Is Now Orbiting the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scott Kelly, the retired NASA astronaut who once held the American record for the longest time spent in a single off-world orbit, is an outspoken guy.

Retired NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Dishes on Ukraine, Russia, and Moon Mission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It appears that NASA's Artemis 1 rocket launchpad caught way more damage than expected when it finally took off from Kennedy Space Center last week.

NASA Launch Pad Sustained Significant Damage During Artemis Takeoff

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of astronomers has clapped back at a NASA report claiming that it had found no evidence that the original James Webb was homophobic.

James Webb Space Telescope

Experts Excoriate NASA Report Claiming James Webb Wasn’t Homophobic

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's astronaut social media handbook just dropped — and they've got some staunch guidelines for safely tweeting on the ISS.

NASA Tells Astronauts That Tweeting Isn’t As Important as Staying Alive

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA apparently barred the press from photographing the Artemis moon rocket launch when it lifted its Orion capsule off to space earlier this week.

NASA Orders Press Not to Photograph Launch Site After Moon Mission Takes Off

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope just released an image of a star being born, and it gives Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper a run for their money.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Drops Stunning New James Webb Image of a Star Being Born

By Noor Al-Sibai