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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

The head of Russia's space agency says it know what caused a mysterious Space Station hole — but NASA's head claims it hasn't shared the info with him.
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Russia: We Know Cause of Space Station Leak but Haven’t Told NASA

By Kristin Houser

NASA scientists are starting fires in space to learn more about fuel combustion. They hope it can make engines more efficient here on Earth.
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NASA Is Starting Fires in Space Just to Watch Them Burn

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch took to Twitter to share terrifying photos of Hurricane Dorian that they'd snapped from the ISS.
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NASA Astronauts Snap Terrifying Photos of Hurricane Dorian

By Kristin Houser

NASA finally pieced together the James Webb Space Telescope, connecting the telescope piece with the spacecraft piece. Now it just needs to get it in orbit.
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NASA Finally Assembled The James Webb Space Telescope

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just activated its Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), starting off its year in Earth's orbit after launching in June.
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NASA Officially Activates Its “GPS for Deep Space”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes Pluto is a planet — but not because he thinks the scientific definition of planethood is flawed.
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Pluto Is a Planet, Insists NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine

By Kristin Houser

NASA astronaut Anne McClain's estranged wife has accused her of committing what may be the first example of a "space crime."
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NASA Astronaut Accused of First Space Crime

By Kristin Houser

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine believes that thermal nuclear propulsion technology would be a game-changer for space exploration.
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Head of NASA: Nuclear Propulsion Could Be “Game-Changer”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s Robotic Refuelling Mission 3 just successfully demonstrated the first of three tools designed to refuel NASA spacecraft in space.
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New Tech Puts NASA One Step Closer to Fueling Spacecraft in Space

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley got to test out their hot new spacesuits for launch day of the long-awaited SpaceX Crew Dragon test flight.
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NASA Astronauts Test SpaceX Spacesuits for Crew Dragon Launch

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has a major wild hog problem at its Kennedy Space Center, with upwards of 12,000 of the animals terrorizing the campus.
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NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Is Infested With Feral Hogs. Really.

By Kristin Houser

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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NASA Official: SpaceX’s Moon Chances Are “Slim”

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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NASA Really, Really Needs a New Spacesuit for 2024 Moon Mission

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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NASA Planning to Grow Chili Peppers on Space Station

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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NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite Discovers Mysterious Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

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

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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NASA Organizes Huge Effort to Study Alien Life in Titan’s Ocean

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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NASA Approves Plan to 3D Print Giant Spaceship Parts in Orbit

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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Astronauts on the ISS Are About to Get Slimed — for Science

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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NASA Just Released an Incredible Map of All Known Exoplanets

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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Bad News, Astronauts: NASA Probably Won’t Reach Moon by 2024

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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NASA’s Orion Crew Capsule Aced Its Abort System Test

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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NASA’s TESS Mission Has Spotted Its Smallest Exoplanet Ever

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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New NASA Contest Seeks Way to Grow a Space Garden

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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Breaking: NASA Announces Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan

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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NASA Sets Tentative Date For Launching Astronauts In SpaceX Ship

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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NASA Funds $2M Study to See if We Could Live in Moon Pits

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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Hackers Stole Data from NASA’s Robotics Lab

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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Gov. Watchdog: NASA Hid True Cost of Boeing Moon Rocket

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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NASA Photographs Asteroid That Could Smash Into Earth in 22nd Century

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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NASA Head: “No Doubt” SpaceX Explosion Delayed Flight Program

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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NASA Discovers Brand-New Crater on Mars

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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NASA Budget Billions Short to Return Americans to the Moon

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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NASA Orbiter Spots “Star Trek” Starfleet Insignia on Mars

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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NASA Chooses First Astronauts to Ride SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft

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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NASA Is Preparing to Explore an All-Metal Asteroid

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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NASA Head: Trump’s Moon Tweet Doesn’t Change Anything

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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Watch Live as NASA Builds the Mars 2020 Rover

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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Trump: “NASA Should NOT be Talking About Going to the Moon”

By Kristin Houser

NASA will officially allow regular citizens — not just certified astronauts — to visit the International Space Station.
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NASA is Officially Opening the Space Station to Tourists

By Victor Tangermann