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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk bragged that his company could reach the Moon within two years. But NASA CFO Jeff DeWit isn't buying it.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA's plans to get to the Moon by 2024 are turning up the pressure to find a suitable replacement for spacesuits that date back to the 1970s.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced the first fruit to be grown in space before the end of this year: the humble Espanola chile pepper (capsicum annuum).
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's TESS satellite analyzed its first supernova, inadvertently revealing that astronomers made some wrong assumptions about the explosions.
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By Dan Robitzski

India’s Chandrayaan-2 Has More Power Than NASA’s Apollo Missions, But Cheaper
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By Dom Galeon

A NASA Astrobiology Institute-funded project will be trying to find out if life could ever exist in Titan's ocean — and if it does, how to look for it.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA just awarded Made In Space a $73.3 million contract to demonstrate 3D-printing spacecraft parts while in orbit using a small spacecraft.
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By Victor Tangermann

Nickelodeon is sending a batch of its iconic slime to the astronauts aboard the ISS to be used for experiments, which will be filmed and later broadcast.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA just dropped an astonishing elaborate map of the over 4,003 exoplanets that we know to exist outside our Solar System.
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By Victor Tangermann

As NASA scrambles to get ready for Artemis, its upcoming crewed mission to the Moon slated for 2024, China may take the lead.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA tested its Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System (LAS) on Tuesday — and it seems the astronaut escape plan worked exactly as hoped.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA's TESS mission has a new discovery: a small exoplanet named L 98-59b, the tiniest TESS has ever spotted, which NASA says could have its own atmosphere.
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By Natalie Coleman

NASA announced a new contest in which contestants are asked to come up with a design for a space garden capable of growing crops.
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By Dan Robitzski

As part of project Dragonfly, NASA is planning to send a small spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan, a moon with an extremely dense atmosphere.
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By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is targeting November 15th as a tentative date to launch its astronaut-ferrying Crew Dragon spacecraft to the ISS according to NASA.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA has funded a project to develop robots capable of autonomously exploring and imaging Moon pits to determine their potential usefulness.
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By Kristin Houser

According to a new 82 page investigation by NASA's Office of Inspector General, hackers got away with 500 megabytes of mission critical data.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new report fings that NASA has been downplaying the expected costs of its missions while rewarding contractors despite preventable delays
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just zipped really close to tiny asteroid Bennu to snap an incredibly detailed image.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA head Jim Bridenstine announced that the SpaceX capsule explosion earlier this year has delayed the space agency's plans for crewed missions.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently spotted a brand new crater on the surface of Mars. The impact left a massive blue smudge that scientists think might be caused by exposed ice.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told CNN Business that NASA will need "$20 to $30 billion" over a span of five years to return to the Moon by 2024.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's on board HiRise high-resolution camera just spotted a dune in the shape of the "Star Trek" logo on Mars.
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By Victor Tangermann

Private space agency SpaceX and NASA chose the lucky astronauts, who will be the first to ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule into space.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA just moved to the next phase of its Psyche mission. Now the spacecraft that will visit the distant asteroid is undergoing final design changes.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has stepped up to clarify what President Donald Trump meant by his confusing Moon tweet.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA is livestreaming a video feed from the JPL clean room where it's currently assembling and testing the Mars 2020 rover.
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By Kristin Houser

U.S. President Donald Trump's puzzling Moon tweet instructing NASA to focus on Mars could have something to do with a Fox anchor's comments.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA will officially allow regular citizens — not just certified astronauts — to visit the International Space Station.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA is planning to send its tiny Mars Helicopter to the surface of Mars next summer. And the Helicopter just passed a couple of important milestones.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA is Launching a GPS System for Space
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By Victor Tangermann

In order to pay for Artemis, NASA's upcoming 2024 Moon mission, it may have to cannibalize other parts of the space agency's budget.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new congressional report found that many ongoing NASA missions are drastically over budget and delayed past their deadlines.
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By Dan Robitzski

Kathy Lueders, manager of the commercial crew program at NASA, sees SpaceX's Crew Dragon explosion as a blessing in disguise.
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By Victor Tangermann

Congress allocated $125 million to NASA, directing it to develop nuclear propulsion technology that would improve flight speed on missions to deep space.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA has selected a number of companies to complete studies about the future of commercial spaceflight in low-Earth orbit.
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By Victor Tangermann

This summer, NASA astronauts will join an international diving crew in a special underwater laboratory under the Atlantic to prepare astronauts space.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA has awarded Maxar Technologies a contract worth a maximum of $375 million to build the lunar Gateway's power and propulsion element.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft just underwent a series of extreme tests to prepare it for the intense conditions on the Red Planet's surface. 
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By Victor Tangermann

A NASA executive who was appointed only six weeks ago to lead the strategy for future missions to the Moon has resigned.
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By Victor Tangermann

Next year, NASA will launch a small spacecraft that will carry yeast cells into orbit around the Sun. Scientists hope to study how radiation affects DNA.
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By Dan Robitzski

The Artemis plan is an ambitious NASA plan not just to send Americans back to the Moon, but to move toward a permanent presence there.
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By Jon Christian

The House Appropriations Committee slapped down the White Houses's request for additional funds for a 2024 Moon Mission by NASA.
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By Victor Tangermann

A NASA satellite managed to photograph the site where Beresheet, the Israeli lunar lander, crashed into the Moon last month.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA's upcoming crewed mission to the surface of the Moon will be named Artemis, after the Greek goddess of the moon and sister to Apollo.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA's "We Are Going" video, which is narrated by Star Trek actor William Shatner, details how the agency plans to pull off its ambitious 2024 Moon mission.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA and the White House are asking Congress to add $1.6 billion to NASA's budget to enable the agency's Moon mission to meet its 2024 goal.
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By Kristin Houser

New NASA-funded research could lead to a fully-electric jet plane powered by cyrogenically-cooled hydrogen instead of fossil fuels.
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By Dan Robitzski

The Trump Administration wanted NASA to put an astronaut on the Moon by 2024 instead of 2028 as originally planned. So far, the new timeline isn't working.
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By Dan Robitzski

Last month, a SpaceX Crew Dragon shuttle crash-landed after its parachutes failed, but NASA says it's a learning experience.
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By Dan Robitzski

The ISS is about to test a new algae bioreactor that turns carbon dioxide to food and breathable oxygen. If it works, it could allow deep space missions.
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By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that extended trips to space are causing astronauts' brains to fill with excess fluid and swell, potentially damaging their eyesight.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA has determined that a pair of Taurus XL rockets failed their satellite launch missions due to faulty materials from an aluminum manufacturer.
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By Kristin Houser

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Just Recorded Its First Ever Marsquake
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA recently tested a new drone swarm, where "Hives" release "Cicadas" to monitor the weather and atmospheric conditions.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA approved the preliminary designs of a spacecraft expected to visit the asteroid Psyche in 2022. When it gets there, NASA won't know what to expect.
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By Dan Robitzski

GermFalcon, a company specializing in airplane sanitizing tech, developed a kind of space Roomba that can blast sterilising UV rays at the walls of the ISS.
International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Incredibly Tough NASA Sensor May Have Survived Moon Lander Crash
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By Dan Robitzski

By extending astronaut Christina Koch's space mission to 328 days, NASA hopes to glean new insights into the impact of longterm spaceflight on humans.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA is paying a team of scientists to build an inflatable robot that can move and grasp things by selectively inflating chambers that act like muscles.
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By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX will provide launch services for NASA's DART mission, which is designed to test a plan for preventing an asteroid from hitting Earth.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA just published the full results of its extensive study into how space travel altered astronaut Scott Kelly's health and gene expression.
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By Dan Robitzski

Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA funds projects that go "to the edge of science fiction, but not over."
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By Kristin Houser