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At 4:33pm, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley launched into space on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9.

SpaceX Makes History: Launches NASA Astronauts Into Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is about to embark on a historic journey tomorrow. So here's how to watch live as the space company attempts to make history.

Here’s How to Watch SpaceX Launch NASA Astronauts Into Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Officials had to chase away a six foot alligator from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.

NASA Had to Chase an Alligator Off the SpaceX Launchpad

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just cleared SpaceX the go-ahead for its historic launch scheduled for May 27. "We are go for launch!" NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted.

NASA Clears SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission for Liftoff

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is looking for participants to spent eight months together inside a spaceflight simulator at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow.

NASA Will Pay You to Chill in a Fake Mars Mission for 8 Months

By Victor Tangermann

Douglas Loverro, the head of NASA's human spaceflight office just resigned a mere week before SpaceX's historic NASA astronaut launch.

NASA Leader Mysteriously Resigns After Unspecified Scandal

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's new Artemis Accords serve as a set of guidelines for both governments and private companies to peacefully operate in space.

NASA: Please Follow These Space Rules We Can’t Enforce

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has launched a browser-based simulator that allows you to take over the controls of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and dock it to the Space Station.

International Space Station

Dock a SpaceX Spacecraft to the ISS in This Amazing Simulator

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is about to set off an intentional and controlled fire inside a spacecraft — and it just left the International Space Station.

NASA Is Setting a Fire Inside a Spaceship

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT researchers are suggesting that we could use a "dynamic orbital slingshot" to get an unprecedented up-and-close look at interstellar objects.

NASA Wants to Chase Interstellar Objects With “Orbital Slingshot”

By Victor Tangermann

A ventilator developed by NASA engineers and designed to save COVID-19 patients was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use.

FDA Approves NASA Ventilator for Use on COVID Patients

By Victor Tangermann

Next month, NASA and SpaceX will launch astronauts from U.S. soil to the ISS for the first time in years. Don't break quarantine to watch it happen.

NASA: Don’t Break Quarantine to Watch SpaceX Launch Astronauts

By Dan Robitzski

A team of NASA researchers have developed a ventilator for treating COVID-19 patients in just 37 days and is requesting the FDA for fast-tracked approval.

NASA Develops Ventilator to Treat Coronavirus Patients

By Victor Tangermann

A new study penned by an international team of researchers could give us clues about interstellar object 2l/Borisov's origins.

NASA: Something Is Off About This Interstellar Comet

By Victor Tangermann

The team behind NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has transitioned to controlling the rover from their home offices amid the coronavirus outbreak.

NASA Employees Are Running the Mars Curiosity Rover From Home

By Victor Tangermann

A spectacular new view of the Pillars of Creation, released by NASA, shows the iconic cosmic image in a new light: in infrared.

NASA Releases Breathtaking Infrared Image of Pillars of Creation

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is funding research for a conceptual telescope called a "solar gravitational lens" that could observe distant exoplanets at an astonishing resolution.

NASA Telescope Idea Could Spot Vegetation on Distant Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has outlined its plans for a lunar base camp called the Artemis Base Camp in a new 13-page report submitted to the National Space Council last week.

Here’s NASA’s Plan for a Lunar “Base Camp”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Juno spacecraft took this dramatic image of Jupiter's "tumultous northern regions" during a close flyby on February 17, 2020.

Glorious NASA Photo Shows “Thin Bands” Running Across Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

NASA built an autonomous robot named BRUIE that may be able to hunt for signs of life on distant ocean worlds like Europa.

Here’s the Robot NASA Wants to Use to Hunt Aliens on Ocean Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

This guy took a relatively clear, awesome photograph of the ISS — the International Space Station — right from his backyard.

International Space Station

This Guy Took a Photo of the ISS from His Backyard

By Foster Kamer

Elon Musk-led space company SpaceX signed a contract with NASA on Friday for supplying the Gateway, a space station orbiting the Moon, with cargo.

NASA Hires SpaceX to Supply Lunar Gateway Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

After revisiting 34-year-old data. NASA made a shocking discovery: Uranus is leaking its gassy atmosphere out into space.

NASA Data Shows Something Leaking Out of Uranus

By Dan Robitzski

Bad news, space fans: NASA just announced they're gonna have reschedule that trip to the Moon they'd been planning in a few years.

NASA: Bad News, Something Came Up, Gotta Rain-Check That Moon Trip :(

By Foster Kamer

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here’s Why NASA Suspects Mars Life Could Be Hiding Underground

By Jon Christian

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

NASA Is Adding a Space Hotel to the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

International Space Station

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It’s Official: NASA Is Considering an Interstellar Mission

By Victor Tangermann