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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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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Recovers After Serious Glitch

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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NASA Clears SpaceX Crew Dragon’s First Test Flight

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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NASA Chief: Space Agency “Well on Our Way” to Discovering Aliens

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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NASA Warns SpaceX and Boeing About Safety Flaws in Spacecraft

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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NASA Lander Now Provides Daily Martian Weather Reports

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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NASA’s New Deep-Sea Submarine Could Eventually Look for Aliens

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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NASA Is Studying Whether a Mars Crew Would Need a Class Clown

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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NASA Chief: SpaceX’s Starship Tougher Than Any NASA Project, Ever

By Jon Christian

NASA is Finally Ready to Say Goodbye to its Opportunity Rover
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NASA is Finally Ready to Say Goodbye to its Opportunity Rover

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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NASA Astronaut Runs for Senate, Warns Of “Retreat From Science”

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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NASA Head: “This Time, When We Go to the Moon, We Will Stay.”

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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NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought

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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NASA’s Rover Sends Home Captivating Selfie of Martian Landscape

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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NASA’s Opportunity Rover Feared Dead: “An Honorable Death”

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.
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Trump Offered NASA an Unlimited Budget if It Sent Humans to Mars

By Jon Christian

A stylized picture of a 3D-printed heart like one NASA wants to print in space.
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Here’s Why NASA Wants to 3D Print Human Hearts in Space

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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New NASA Animations Show How Slowly Light Travels Through Space

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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Here’s NASA’s Newly-Released Image of Ultima Thule

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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NASA Scientist: Asteroid Deflection Mission Not Like “Armageddon”

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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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