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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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NASA Wants to Send Earthquake-Detecting Balloons to Venus

By Victor Tangermann

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft has been cleared by NASA for full-scale production
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NASA Clears “Dream Chaser” Space Cargo Plane For Full-Scale Production

By Jacob Banas

The ongoing government shutdown means that 95 percent of NASA's workforce is home on furlough during New Horizons' historic flyby.
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Gov Shutdown Means 95 Percent of NASA Employees Aren’t At Work

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.
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New Horizons Will Fly Past the Most Distant Object We’ve Ever Visited

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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NASA’s Mars Lander Places Instrument to Listen for “Marsquakes”

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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Hackers Accessed NASA Servers Containing Employee Information

By Kristin Houser

Australian astronaut Andy Thomas believes the spaceplane designed by Virgin Galactic is not well-suited to get humans to space.
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Former NASA Astronaut: Virgin Galactic’s Space Flights Are “Dangerous”

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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NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Tunneling Bot Could Hunt for Life on Europa

By Jon Christian

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that launched in 2009 could assist future commercial and international lunar landers.
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NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Could Assist Commercial Missions to the Moon

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.
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Cosmonauts Hacked Away at the ISS in Search of Sabotage Evidence

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.
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Russians Search Exterior of ISS For Signs of Sabotage on Spacewalk

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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A NASA Probe Just Found Evidence of Water on a Distant Asteroid

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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NASA’s InSight Lander Just Flexed Its Arm and Took a Selfie

By Victor Tangermann

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

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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Retired Astronaut: NASA Left Earth Defenseless Against Asteroids

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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NASA’s First-Ever Asteroid Return Mission Just Reached Its Target

By Kristin Houser

The InSight team at JPL have discovered that the spacecraft landed at a four degree angle in a large, sand-filled impact crater.
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NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Landed in a “Large Sandbox” at a Slight Angle

By Victor Tangermann

On Tuesday, NASA announced the nine companies it has contracted to help transport astronauts and cargo to the Moon within the next 12 years.
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These 9 Companies Will Help NASA Return Humans to the Moon

By Kristin Houser

NASA and JPL have announced its InSight lander is officially collecting solar power on the Martian surface — completing yet another critical step.
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NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Fires up Solar Cells and Sends Selfie

By Victor Tangermann

The successful landing of NASA's InSight probe on Mars set the internet ablaze Monday afternoon. Here's what the world had to say about the mission.
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The World Reacts to the Success of NASA’s InSight Mars Lander

By Kristin Houser

Breaking: NASA’s InSight Lander Just Landed on Mars
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Breaking: NASA’s InSight Lander Just Landed on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's InSight rover will land on Mars one way or another on Monday. Here's how you can tune in and watch how it goes down.
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Here’s how to Watch NASA’s InSight Rover Land on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Announces Date for First SpaceX Crew Dragon Test Flight
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NASA Announces Date for First SpaceX Crew Dragon Test Flight

By Sarah Marquart

NASA's plans to conducts a "safety review" of SpaceX and Boeing stem from the agency's displeasure with Elon Musk's recent behavior.
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NASA Isn’t Happy About SpaceX’s “Frat House” Culture

By Kristin Houser

NASA Certifies SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to Launch Its Top Missions
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NASA Certifies SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to Launch Its Top Missions

By Kristin Houser

After four years of study, NASA concluded that 3D printing works just as well in space as it does on Earth. Deep space missions may be in the future.
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NASA: Objects 3D Printed in Space Perform Well Enough to Support Missions

By Dan Robitzski

NASA posted a video to its Commercial Crew Twitter account of astronauts wearing SpaceX spacesuits while inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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NASA Astronauts Put SpaceX Spacesuits to the Test

By Kristin Houser

NASA is hard at work on a "factory" that'd let future Mars missions — or even colonists — extract rocket fuel from Martian soil.
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NASA Scientists Think They Can Extract Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil

By Jon Christian

NASA announced Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope, which has been orbiting Earth and looking for exoplanets since 2009, ran out of fuel. RIP.
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NASA: Kepler Space Telescope is Out of Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just broke the world records for closest approach to the Sun and fastest speed relative to the Sun.
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NASA’s Solar Probe Just Broke Two World Records

By Kristin Houser

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NASA Thinks Its Opportunity Mars Rover Might Be Truly Kaput

By Kristin Houser

NASA's new gamma-ray constellastions
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NASA Unveils 21 New Constellations Formed by Black Holes and Other Brutal Space Stuff

By Kristin Houser

Lockheed Martin engineers are using Microsoft's HoloLens to speed up construction of NASA's next space capsule by showing technicians the next step.
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Lockheed Engineers Are Using HoloLens to Build NASA’s New Space Capsule

By Jon Christian

NASA’s Got Ambitious Goals for Crewed Space Exploration
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NASA’s Got Ambitious Goals for Crewed Space Exploration

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Is Looking For New Ways to Detect Alien Technology
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NASA Is Looking For New Ways to Detect Alien Technology

By Kristin Houser

NASA just shared the first image produces by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a satellite designed to help in the hunt for exoplanets.
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See the First Image Produced by NASA’s Newest Planet Hunter

By Kristin Houser

NASA is considering finding corporate sponsors to name rockets or spacecraft to help the company raise funds and maintain cultural relevance.
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Corporate Sponsors Could Help NASA Keep Pace with Private Space Companies

By Kristin Houser

NASA Wants Its Deep Space Gateway Habitat To Orbit The Moon By 2024
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NASA Wants Its Deep Space Gateway Habitat To Orbit The Moon By 2024

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers used AI to create a planetary navigation system that would allow humans to find their way around foreign planets and moons.
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NASA Is Making an AI-Based GPS for Space

By Kristin Houser

The Moon Definitely Has Water Ice on Its Surface, Says NASA
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The Moon Definitely Has Water Ice on Its Surface, Says NASA

By Kristin Houser

NASA’s New Space Probe Will Venture Closer to the Sun Than Any Craft Before It
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NASA Just Launched A New Space Probe That Will Venture Closer to the Sun Than Any Craft Before It

By Kristin Houser

NASA Announces The First Commercial Astronauts to Pilot The Next Generation of Spacecraft
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NASA Announces The First Commercial Astronauts to Pilot The Next Generation of Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

According to new NASA estimates, Elon Musk's SpaceX will be ready for a crewed test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft in April 2019.
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SpaceX Will Be Ready to Transport Humans in April 2019, NASA Estimates

By Kristin Houser

NASA has selected five final designs for its 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. Someday, we might use them construct our dwellings when we live on Mars.
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Here Are The Finalists For NASA’s Mars Habitat Design Competition

By Victor Tangermann

we have only studied about 16 percent of the moon rocks taken during the Apollo missions. NASA's Apollo curator keeps them for future generations.
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Most Of NASA’s Moon Rocks Remain Untouched By Scientists

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX and Boeing Delays Could Cost NASA Access to the ISS
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SpaceX and Boeing Delays Could Cost NASA Access to the ISS

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: NASA Isn’t Doing Enough to Prevent Us From Contaminating Other Planets, Report Says
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The Digest: NASA Isn’t Doing Enough to Prevent Us From Contaminating Other Planets, Report Says

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: NASA Starts Tests to Prepare For Flight of “Quiet” Supersonic Jet
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The Digest: NASA Starts Tests to Prepare For Flight of “Quiet” Supersonic Jet

By Kristin Houser

NASA: Don’t Start Mourning the Opportunity Rover Just Yet
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NASA: Don’t Start Mourning the Opportunity Rover Just Yet

By Kristin Houser

NASA Found Evidence of Organic Matter on Mars. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal. 
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NASA Found Evidence of Organic Matter on Mars. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal. 

By Kristin Houser

NASA Scientists Imagine Studying Venus From A Floating Research Colony
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NASA Scientists Imagine Studying Venus From A Floating Research Colony

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Just Unveiled This Awesome, Tiny Helicopter That Will Cruise Over Mars
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NASA Just Unveiled This Awesome, Tiny Helicopter That Will Cruise Over Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Just Canceled Its Only Moon Rover Project. That’s Bad News for Trump’s Lunar Plans.
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NASA Just Canceled Its Only Moon Rover Project. That’s Bad News for Trump’s Lunar Plans.

By Claudia Geib

SpaceX Just Launched NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope (Gee I Wonder What They’ll Find)
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SpaceX Just Launched NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope (Gee I Wonder What They’ll Find)

By Claudia Geib

Go On A 4K Joyride Around The Moon, Courtesy of NASA
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Go On A 4K Joyride Around The Moon, Courtesy of NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Can Humans Conceive In Space? NASA Sent Sperm To The ISS To Find Out
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Can Humans Conceive In Space? NASA Sent Sperm To The ISS To Find Out

By Victor Tangermann

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New NASA Plan for Mars Is Moderately-Terrifying-Sounding, Also, Completely-Awesome: Robotic. Bees.

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Telescope Is Delayed. Again. Here Are 4 Things to Know About it
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The James Webb Telescope Is Delayed. Again. Here Are 4 Things to Know About it

By Claudia Geib

Earth Looks Like A Living Creature In This Amazing NASA Video
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Earth Looks Like A Living Creature In This Amazing NASA Video

By Jolene Creighton

Impossible Physics: Meet NASA’s Design for a Warp Drive Ship
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Impossible Physics: Meet NASA’s Design for a Warp Drive Ship

By Jolene Creighton

Technical, Budget Problems Will Delay the James Webb Telescope Again
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Technical, Budget Problems Will Delay the James Webb Telescope Again

By Chelsea Gohd

nasa sls rocket mobile launcher launch tower
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NASA Has A Leaning Launch Tower. Here’s What You Need To Know About It.

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA May Stop Trying to Understand Dark Energy
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NASA May Stop Trying to Understand Dark Energy

By Brad Jones

NASA Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Spacecraft
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NASA Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Spacecraft

By Chelsea Gohd