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An asrtist's rendering of NASA's Phoenix lander flexing its robotic arm.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new survey figured out how many bacteria and fungi are on the International Space Station. In some places, there are a billion cells per square meter.
International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is sending a pair of "robotic bees" to the ISS — a project the space agency is positioning as one of the most advanced experiments in space robotics.
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By Jon Christian

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has told the agency's employees that India's satellite destruction test has put the ISS in danger.
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By Kristin Houser

An airplane wing created from hundreds of identical cube-like structures has the ability to change shape automatically depended on the phase of flight.
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By Kristin Houser

On Friday, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch completed a nearly seven-hour-long ISS spacewalk, the 215th in space station history.
International Space Station

By Kristin Houser

NASA crowned the top three winners of the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge's latest round, challenging teams to "complete a virtual construction level."
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA has replaced Anne McClain with male astronaut Nick Hague for what would have been the world's first all-female spacewalk.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed to send a spacecraft called "Trident" to Neptune's largest moon Triton.
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By Victor Tangermann

A drone just flew through an Icelandic cave and generated a 3D map of the area in minutes, in a test run for systems that will do the same on Mars.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new antimicrobial coating kept bacteria from growing on the International Space Station's door, which could protect immune-compromised astronauts.
International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

NASA collaborators admitted that they're not sure what's wrong with the InSight lander's instrument that was supposed to dig into the surface of Mars.
NASA

By Jon Christian

NASA just announced that one of its spacecrafts has made a surprise discovery: "particle plumes erupting" from the surface of a large asteroid called Bennu.
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By Jon Christian

NASA: Meteor Exploded Over Russia With 10x Energy of Atomic Bomb
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By Victor Tangermann

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By Jon Christian

Tests show that dormant herpes viruses reactivate in more than half the astronauts who travel on the Space Shuttle and International Space station.
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By Jon Christian

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine suggested NASA might use a commercial rocket to boost its Orion crew capsule around the Moon in 2020.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA could put humans on Mars in just five years if given the money to do so, according to Ellen Stofan, the agency's former chief scientist.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA has big plans for its female astronauts — according to administrator Jim Bridenstine, the first person to reach Mars will "likely" be a woman.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA included a possible 2026 sample return mission to Mars in this week's budget request. Congress has yet to approve the budget.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Spots “Moving Water Molecules” on the Moon
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By Victor Tangermann

New data collected by NASA, using two space telescopes, shows that the vast majority of our galaxy's mass is dark matter.
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By Jon Christian

NASA engineers have captured the first images of the interaction between shockwaves from a pair of flying supersonic aircraft — and they are stunning.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA Is About to Test a Giant Solar Drone That Broadcasts 5G
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By Victor Tangermann

On March 29, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will leave the ISS to embark on the world's first all-female spacewalk.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA’s InSight Mars Rover Runs Into Trouble Digging a Hole
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By Victor Tangermann

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a prescription treatment for depression that's based on ketamine, marking a new use for an old anesthetic.
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By Jon Christian

Canada agrees to invest C$150 million in the U.S.'s Lunar Gateway, becoming the nation's first international partner in the ambitious space program.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Tries to Start Digging, But Hits Snag
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which touched down in 2014, experienced a "hiccup" while booting up last week. For now, it's back online.
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By Jon Christian

NASA and SpaceX decided to proceed with plans yesterday for the first ever test flight, dubbed Demo-1, of SpaceX's Crew Dragon passenger spacecraft.
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By Victor Tangermann

During a ceremony announcing Opportunity's death, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said the agency is "well on [its[ way" to discovering alien life.
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By Kristin Houser

NASA commissioned SpaceX and Boeing to develop shuttles for crewed missions. Upcoming test flights may be delayed as NASA found several safety flaws.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new NASA page beams weather data from the space agency's InSight lander, on the Red Planet, straight to your web browser.
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By Jon Christian

NASA and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are working on sending an underwater drone to the deepest points of the Earth's oceans.
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By Victor Tangermann

An anthropologist is making the case that long space missions, like a crewed trip to Mars, would require crew members with senses of humor.
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By Jon Christian

A NASA director warned that Elon Musk's proposed Starship design was going to be "orders of magnitude" more difficult than any NASA project in history.
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By Jon Christian

NASA is Finally Ready to Say Goodbye to its Opportunity Rover
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By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly announced Tuesday that he's running for Senate in Arizona — and positioned himself as a defender of science.
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By Jon Christian

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine published a bold essay  outlining the space agency's plan to return astronauts to the Moon.
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By Jon Christian

NASA administrator Thomas Zurbuchen argues that extraterrestrial life may be out there, given recent discoveries of off-world water and organic molecules.
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By Dan Robitzski

NSA's Curiosity rover just took a last selfie before leaving the Vera Rubin Ridge on the surface of Mars. Its next stop is a suspected dried-up lake bed.
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By Victor Tangermann

On the week of the 15th anniversary of NASA's Opportunity rover's touchdown, officials are acknowledging that it could be permanently out of commission.
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By Jon Christian

U.S. President Donald Trump offered NASA unlimited funding if it meant the agency could send a crewed mission to Mars by the end of his first term.
NASA

By Jon Christian

A stylized picture of a 3D-printed heart like one NASA wants to print in space.
NASA

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA scientist just made animations showing how slow the speed of light is compared to the scale of the cosmos to explain why we haven't traveled far.
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By Dan Robitzski

In a live stream, NASA's New Horizon spacecraft team revealed new details about Ultima Thule — a space rock floating 6.6 kilometers away from Earth.
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By Victor Tangermann

An upcoming NASA mission will test Earth's planetary defense against a killer asteroid by smashing a probe into a distant space rock.
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By Jon Christian

Scientists set off a massive explosion in the Nevada desert to test special earthquake-detecting balloons that could one day be deployed over Venus.
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By Victor Tangermann

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft has been cleared by NASA for full-scale production
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By Jacob Banas

The ongoing government shutdown means that 95 percent of NASA's workforce is home on furlough during New Horizons' historic flyby.
NASA

By Jon Christian

After whizzing past Pluto in July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is fast approaching Ultima Thule — an odd space rock 6.6 billion kilometers away.
New Horizons

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's InSight lander just successfully placed its seismometer five feet from itself onto the surface of Mars.
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By Victor Tangermann

Someone hacked NASA servers, potentially stealing the personal info of employees in the process, according to an internal memo.
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By Kristin Houser

Australian astronaut Andy Thomas believes the spaceplane designed by Virgin Galactic is not well-suited to get humans to space.
NASA

By Kristin Houser

A nuclear-powered tunneling bot could burrow through Europa's icy shell to probe its composition and, potentially, access the watery darkness under it.
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By Jon Christian

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that launched in 2009 could assist future commercial and international lunar landers.
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By Victor Tangermann

Tuesday's ISS spacewalk was a success, with the cosmonauts able to see and collect samples from the mysterious hole in the side of the Soyuz capsule.
International Space Station

By Kristin Houser

During a spacewalk, two Russian astronauts will examine a hole in the side of the ISS's Soyuz capsule in an attempt to figure out if was a work of sabotage.
International Space Station

By Kristin Houser

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft found evidence of "hydrated minerals" on the surface of Bennu, an asteroid millions of miles away.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Insight Lander just flexed its arm to find the right spots to place its scientific instruments.
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By Victor Tangermann

Yes, a NASA Scientist Said Aliens May Have Visited Earth. But There’s Some Nuance
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By Sarah Marquart

NASA's Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), a crucial tool for spotting asteroids on a collision course with Earth, hasn't been fully funded since 2006.
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By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at Bennu on Monday, a huge milestone in the agency's effort to return asteroid samples to Earth.
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By Kristin Houser