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In a last-resort move to free up the InSight Mars rover's digging probe, NASA engineers programmed the rover to thwack it with a shovel.
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NASA Fixes Mars Lander By Telling It to Hit Itself With a Shovel

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is taking many precautionary measures to ensure that the coronavirus outbreak doesn't have a chance to spread among its employees and astronauts.
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NASA Worried Astronauts Could Spread Coronavirus on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astrobiologists claim that organic molecules discovered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover could be evidence for early life on Mars.
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Scientists: NASA Rover Has Found Evidence of Ancient Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new internal report, developing the rocket meant to bring crewmembers to the Moon in 2024 has NASA years behind and billions over budget.
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NASA’s Own Report Admits Its Non-SpaceX Rocket Is a Disaster

By Dan Robitzski

Planetary scientist James O'Donoghue announced a definitive ranking of all the "ringed planet" emojis out there, based on which looked most like Saturn.
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Former NASA Scientist Absolutely Shreds Planet Emojis

By Dan Robitzski

After a nation-wide stdudent contest, NASA has selected "Perseverance" as the name for its next Mars rover, set to launch later this year.
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NASA’s New Mars Rover Officially Has a Name

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Voyager 2, currently in interstellar space billions of miles from Earth, has recovered from a serious glitch it experienced in late January.
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NASA Spacecraft Recovers from Glitch 11.5 Billion Miles From Earth

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has struck a deal with the Elon Musk-led SpaceX to launch its historic uncrewed mission to the metallic asteroid Psyche.
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NASA Hires SpaceX to Launch Mission to Giant Metal Asteroid

By Jon Christian

NASA has learned that Boeing did not perform a "full, end-to-end integrated test" of its astronaut-ferrying Starliner spacecraft with the Atlas V rocket.
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NASA: Boeing Skipped Crucial Software Test of Starliner Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Six new studies were published today, detailing some of the discoveries made by NASA's InSight Mars lander, including evidence of a strange glow in the sky.
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NASA Lander Detects Strange Glow In Sky of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

If there's life on Mars, experts agree, it's probably beneath the surface. Finding evidence could require some lateral thinking -- or boots on the ground.
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Here’s Why NASA Suspects Mars Life Could Be Hiding Underground

By Jon Christian

The Western Australian government has announced the opening of a brand new national space robotics headquarters to help NASA build the next space station.
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Australia Wants to Help NASA Build Space Station Using Robots

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is building a huge dish in California that it hopes will allow Mars astronauts to communicate with Earth — using high-powered lasers.
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NASA: Mars Astronauts Will Use Lasers to Communicate With Earth

By Jon Christian

Apply now! NASA is officially accepting astronaut applications for its next generation of astronauts that could one day travel to the Moon and Mars.
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Here’s Where You Can Apply to Be a NASA Moon Astronaut

By Victor Tangermann

William Gerstenmaier, who served as the chief of NASA’s human spaceflight program for 14 years, has found himself new gig: working at SpaceX.
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SpaceX Hires Former NASA Chief of Human Spaceflight

By Kristin Houser

NASA will need $35 billion over the next four years to successfully complete the Artemis Moon mission, according to Human Spaceflight Chief Doug Loverro.
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NASA: Next Moon Landing Will Cost About $35 Billion

By Kristin Houser

According to a NASA safety review panel, Boeing's first uncrewed flight test of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft almost ended in a "catastrophic failure."
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NASA: Boeing Starliner Test Nearly Ended in “Catastrophic Failure”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is asking potential industry partners, including electric car companies, to send them ideas for lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) designs.
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NASA Is Asking Electric Car Companies for Lunar Rover Ideas

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Christine Koch has returned to Earth after spending a record-setting 328 days aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA Astronaut Sets Space Record, Says She’ll Miss Microgravity

By Kristin Houser

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir snapped an out-of-this-world selfie during an International Space Station spacewalk in January.
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NASA Astronaut Snaps Epic Selfie in Space Station Reflection

By Kristin Houser

NASA announced on Monday that it has chosen private space station manufacturer Axiom Space to build the first space hotel for the ISS.
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NASA Is Adding a Space Hotel to the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

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How Does NASA’s New Mega-Rocket Compare to the Falcon Heavy?

By Chelsea Gohd

An experimental NASA program is tinkering with the idea of building a Mars or Moon base out of living mushrooms that astronauts would grow onsite.
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NASA Wants to Grow a Moon Base Out of Mushrooms

By Dan Robitzski

The eight "mighty mice" NASA sent to space have returned to Earth from the ISS, potentially bringing with them insights on humans avoiding muscle loss.
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NASA’s Super-Muscular Mice Return to Earth From Space

By Kristin Houser

During their long-term mission aboard the International Space Station, a NASA astronaut developed a blood clot in the jugular vein of their neck.
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A NASA Astronaut Got a Blood Clot In Space

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine proposed to send Japanese astronauts to the Moon in the late 2020s as part of a joint plan with the US.
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NASA Proposed Sending Japanese Astronauts to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Boeing's Starliner may not have reached the International Space Station on its first mission, but astronauts are still excited about the spacecraft.
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Astronauts “Can’t Wait” to Try out Starliner Despite ISS Failure

By Kristin Houser

NASA's Mars 2020 rover rolled forward and backward for the first time inside a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, clearing small ramps.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Earns Its “Driver’s License”

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober is back with a new-and-improved Glitter Bomb Trap 2.0, an upgrade to his rigged package for "porch pirates."
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NASA Alum Upgrades Glitter Stink Bomb for “Porch Pirates”

By Kristin Houser

NASA just released a new image, the clearest yet, of 2I/Borisov, the second ever interstellar visitor we've seen enter our solar system.
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NASA Releases New Image of Interstellar Visitor

By Dan Robitzski

Ad Astra CEO and former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz is building a plasma rocket engine that he thinks is our best bet to send people to Mars.
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A Former NASA Astronaut Is Building a Plasma-Powered Mars Rocket

By Dan Robitzski

NASA researchers have created a "treasure map" detailing where they believe water ice exists just below the surface of Mars.
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NASA Releases “Treasure Map” for Water Ice on Mars

By Kristin Houser

After many years of delay, NASA has finally shown off its Space Launch System (SLS) that aims to ferry American astronauts to the Moon as soon as 2024.
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After Years of Delays, NASA Unveils Its Most Powerful Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

a recent discovery about 1,600-foot space rock Bennu has scientists scratching their heads: it keeps spitting up small asteroid particles.
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NASA Baffled: Asteroid Bennu Keeps Spitting Out Small Rocks

By Victor Tangermann

The chief of India's space agency claimed their orbiter had spotted Vikram, the perished lunar lander, months before NASA announced it had found it.
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India’s Space Chief: We Found Our Lander Months Before NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS captured footage of a comet suddenly exploding in a bizarre phenomenon called a comet outburst.
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Watch NASA’s New Footage of a Comet Exploding

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just announced that it finally found the crash site debris and remains of India's long lost lunar lander called Vikram.
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NASA Spots Remains of India’s Lost Lunar Lander

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed a drone (SQUID) that can be shot high up into the sky using a special cannon.
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Watch NASA’s Truck-Mounted Cannon Shoot Drones Into the Sky

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is sending a rover to Antarctica to train for missions during which it'll hunt for alien life in the icy oceans of far-off moons
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NASA Is Testing an Alien-Hunting Submarine in Antarctica

By Kristin Houser

A group of researchers are eager to get back to exploring the far reaches of the universe and send a probe on a NASA mission into interstellar space.
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It’s Official: NASA Is Considering an Interstellar Mission

By Victor Tangermann

A private orbital systems company is developing the "Dream Chaser," a sleek reusable spacecraft, which NASA will test to shuttle cargo to the Space Station.
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NASA Will Test Beautiful Spaceship That Looks Like Space Shuttle

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists found evidence that ribose, a key sugar in genetic molecules, may have come to earth through the impacts of meteorites.
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NASA Says It Found Building Blocks of Life in Fallen Meteorites

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk doesn't think it's fair that NASA will pay Boeing 60 percent more than SpaceX to provide the same service.
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Elon Musk Tears Into NASA for Pricey Boeing Launches

By Kristin Houser

NASA: Boeing Spaceflights Are Way Pricier Than SpaceX
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NASA: Boeing Spaceflights Are Way Pricier Than SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

According to a shocking new report by NASA scientists, blood flow can stop and even reverse in the upper bodies of astronauts.
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NASA Research: Astronauts Are Getting Clots, Bizarre Blood Flow

By Victor Tangermann

A free new app called "Rocket Science: Ride 2 Station," created by NASA, lets you control your very own SpaceX Crew Dragon or Boeing Starliner.
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This NASA App Lets You Control a SpaceX Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Asteroid Ultima Thule was renamed by NASA to "Arrokoth" thanks to the Nazi connotations of its old name, as Agence France-Press reports.
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NASA Reverses Course After Giving Asteroid Nazi Name

By Victor Tangermann

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks
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NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that his company's Starship rocket will only require $900,000 of fuel per launch and cost $2 million per mission overall.
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Elon Musk: SpaceX Launches Will Cost 1% of Current NASA Launches

By Victor Tangermann

We're littering an already-crowded space station environment and filling up valuable launch manifests with PR stunts. Knock it off, brands.
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Brands Keep Sending Their Pointless Swag to the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just funded a study to determine the feasibility of a Pluto orbiter, which would provide a much closer look at the dwarf planet than New Horizons did.
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NASA Is Seriously Considering a Pluto Orbiter

By Victor Tangermann

With the 8,200 pounds of research, supplies, and hardware contained in a Northrup Gruman resupply rocket sent to space, there were also 12 bottles of wine.
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This Startup Is Aging Red Wine on the International Space Station

By Jacob Banas

Astronauts on the International Space Station played a quick game of low-gravity baseball in orbit to promote the World Series.
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Watch Astronauts Play Baseball on the International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center believe the recently discovered interstellar comet 2I/Borisov may hold water.
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NASA Scientists Say Interstellar Object May Hold Alien Water

By Victor Tangermann

Image via Pixabay/Kevin Sanderson/Tag Hartman-Simkins
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NASA Engineer Says New Thruster Could Reach 99% Speed of Light

By Jon Christian

NASA is working with Caterpillar on Moon mining rocks from the Moon's surface to be used as raw materials on the space agency's planned lunar base.
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NASA’s Collaborating With Caterpillar on Moon Mining Machines

By Dan Robitzski

A strange "contaminant" hitchhiked on the glove of NASA astronaut Christine Koch's spacesuit and made its way back into the station.
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Something “Contaminated” Spacesuit During NASA Spacewalk

By Victor Tangermann

California-based company Made in Space is launching a special machine to the ISS that can turn plastic waste into feedstock for the comapny's 3D printer.
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New Machine on ISS Will Turn Trash Into “Ink” For 3D Printers

By Victor Tangermann

One of the mockup Moon habitats NASA is considering is a 55-foot-long inflatable tent that reaches a height equivalent to a two-story building.
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NASA’s Considering Giant Inflatable Tents for Moon Habitats

By Kristin Houser

NASA has designed two new spacesuits to support its 2024 mission to the Moon, and the suits are better than their predecessors in almost every way.
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NASA Unveils Spacesuits for Next Moon Mission

By Kristin Houser

As the International Space Station approaches its inevitable retiring, NASA is encouraging private companies to build their own.
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NASA Has a Plan to Encourage Private Space Stations

By Dan Robitzski

After a public feud, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seem to be on better terms, and they plan on hanging out on Thursday.
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NASA Boss Ends Feud With Elon, Plans SpaceX Factory Tour

By Dan Robitzski

Based on rover findings, NASA scientists envision Mars' Gale Crater to once have resembled the Altiplanos, the high altitude regions of South America.
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NASA: Rover May Have Found Remnants of Ancient Martian Oasis

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine released a statement last week about how he's disappointed with SpaceX's efforts to return Americans to space.
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Here’s Why Elon Musk is Feuding With the Head of NASA

By Victor Tangermann