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Here's how to follow NASA's daring Perseverance Mars rover landing this afternoon. It's the most difficult landing on the Red Planet ever attempted.
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By Victor Tangermann

Computer scientist and investor Sailesh Ramakrishnan says that the space industry is about to see a "gold rush" that will transform off-world exploration
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will attempt to land in some of the most challenging Martian terrain tomorrow. Luckily, it's prepared.
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By Victor Tangermann

A NASA-sponsored report finds that the agency has fallen behind on its push to develop nuclear propulsion for spacecraft, threatening a 2039 Mars mission.
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By Dan Robitzski

After years of testing and development, NASA is ready to start assembling the spacecraft that will visit the metallic asteroid Psyche.
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By Dan Robitzski

The space company and NASA contractor Nanoracks wants to build greenhouses in space to bolster food security in the face of climate change.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists say they can hunt for alien civilizations by looking for industrial pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in exoplanets' atmospheres.
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After a seven months of travel, NASA's Perseverance rover is set to land on Mars next week. The agency's InSight lander will be listening.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA is barred from collaborating with China and its leadership says it's not concerned about China's ambitions. But experts suggest it should be.
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By Dan Robitzski

To prevent the spread of COVID-19 across its facilities, NASA is handing out Fitbit devices to 1,000 of its employees, including 150 astronauts.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA has chosen SpaceX to launch the first parts of its Lunar Gateway, with a Falcon Heavy rocket launching no sooner than May 2024.
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By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX will launch NASA's SPHEREx mission — an orbital telescope that will probe newly-forming galaxies for answers on how the universe began.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace to fly ten different science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon by 2023.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA and SpaceX are developing duelling spacecraft for crewed missions to other worlds, and so far NASA sees no reason to change gears.
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By Dan Robitzski

Even though the Artemis missions were set forth under the Trump administration, acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk says it's still full steam ahead.
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Steve Jurczyk shares his vision for the future of NASA, including plans for the Artemis missions, working with SpaceX, and more.
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NASA is working towards picking the final location for its Artemis base camp on the Moon, which is expected to be the first long-term base of operations.
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New acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk says that he's stuck at home, running the entire space agency from his basement.
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By Dan Robitzski

In an experiment, NASA set several controlled fires inside a used Cygnus cargo resupply spacecraft to study how fire spreads in microgravity.
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By Victor Tangermann

Outgoing NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine shared an emotional goodbye video in which he celebrated the space agency's success and long-term missions.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA has to prematurely shut down a critical "hot fire" test of the engines meant to one day carry the Orion spacecraft to the Moon.
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By Victor Tangermann

The "mole" attached to NASA's InSight Mars lander, which has been attempting to dig itself into the rocky surface, is giving up, according to NASA.
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By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just won two contracts to launch both a commercial lunar lander, a mission backed by NASA, as well as a satellite meant to monitor methane emissions.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA and the European Space Agency have graced us with six glorious views of mindbogglingly massive galaxy mergers, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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By Victor Tangermann

International Space Station crewmembers dug into radishes that were the first non-leafy green veggies to be grown and consumed on the ISS.
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By Dan Robitzski

In a Medium post, NASA engineer Evan Hilgemann explores what its actually like to drive a Mars rover. It's simpler than one might think.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA euthanized all 27 of its primates at the agency's Ames research center in California in February 2019, The Guardian reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA announced that Reid Wiseman would be its 17th Chief Astronaut. He previously logged lots of time in space and served as deputy Chief Astronaut.
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By Dan Robitzski

In exchange for technical support from Canada, NASA will fly a Canadian astronaut to lunar orbit, making them the first non-American to reach the Moon.
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By Dan Robitzski

The COVID-19 global pandemic has left a lasting impression on what our planet looks like from space, according to NASA's new dashboard.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronomer Alan Stern tells Discover Magazine that the discovery of liquid oceans on other worlds is among the "most profound discoveries" in space.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA has officially announced the first team of American astronauts headed to the Moon as soon as 2024 as part of its Artemis program.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA has powered up the core stage of its Space Launch System (SLS), a heavy lift rocket that's meant to one day allow Americans to return to the Moon.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA just published a detailed report on the upcoming Artemis Moon missions, including information on the planned lunar base camp.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA is paying startups for any Moon dust they collect on missions scheduled for the next few years, but the payment is largely symbolic.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA has started stacking booster segments of its first heavy-lift Space Launch System at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory are testing if we can harness the heat of the Sun to travel to interstellar space.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a recent report, NASA admitted that landing the first astronauts on the Moon since the Apollo era in 2024 might be a bit of a stretch.
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By Victor Tangermann

Bennu, the asteroid on which NASA landed a spacecraft to gather samples, seems to be hollow and gradually crumbling apart.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told reporters that he expects SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to "quarantine and self-isolate" after testing for the coronavirus.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA modeled how much air pollution humanity would have caused without a pandemic this year to find out how much emissions dropped.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA is now accepting contractor proposals for its plan to power lunar and Martian outposts with small nuclear fission reactors.
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By Dan Robitzski

At 7:27 pm on Sunday, SpaceX launched a crew of four aboard a Crew Dragon module, carried into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket.
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By Jon Christian

Here's how to watch SpaceX and NASA's historic Crew-1 launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft on Saturday evening.
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By Victor Tangermann

President-elect Joe Biden recently named his agency review teams, one of which will bring him up to speed on all things NASA.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA has officially certified the first commercial spacecraft system capable of ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA warns that AST & Science's plan to launch 240 massive telecom satellites into orbit would create a serious risk of collisions in space.
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By Dan Robitzski

Biden has said very little about space. Here's what NASA could look like under his administration.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists think that Jupiter's moon Europa might glow in the dark and that by measuring that glow they can detect what's hidden in its oceans.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is planning to step aside once president-elect Joe Biden is taking over, according to Aviation Week.
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By Victor Tangermann

If This COVID-Blocking Nasal Spray Works on Humans, It Could Change the Course of the Pandemic
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By Dan Robitzski

After NASA criticized the satellite startup AST & Science for its plans to launch a fleet of telecom satellites, AST's founder fights back.
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By Dan Robitzski

Former NASA astronaut and US Navy veteran Mark Kelly, a Democrat, beat incumbent Martha McSally (R-AR) for a seat on the US senate.
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By Victor Tangermann

New NASA-led research calculated that on average, about one in two Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have exoplanets in their habitable zones.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA just dropped its hottest mixtape on Soundcloud — and it's super creepy sounds from space just in time for Halloween.
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By Victor Tangermann

The United States Space Force plans to swear NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins into its ranks during a ceremony aboard the International Space Station.
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By Jon Christian

A team of NASA scientists has spotted strange flashes known as "transient luminous events" (TLEs) in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA and the ESA have formally partnered up to develop the Gateway space station that will orbit the Moon as part of the Artemis program.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA has officially set the date for SpaceX's long awaited Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station for 2:40 am Eastern time on October 31.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA Shutting Spacecraft Door Early to Keep Asteroid Chunks From Falling Out
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Big Moon Surprise Is That Lunar Soil Contains Water
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By Victor Tangermann

OSIRIS-REx took such a big bite out of the surface of Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, it's "mouth" is jammed open, with bits of asteroid rubble falling out.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins just submitted her vote for the 2020 presidential elections — from the International Space Station's "voting booth."
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA has finally released footage from when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on asteroid Bennu's surface to collect a bunch of space rocks.
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By Victor Tangermann