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On Friday, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch completed a nearly seven-hour-long ISS spacewalk, the 215th in space station history.
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NASA Announces Successful Completion of ISS Spacewalk

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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These 3D-Printed Mars Habitats Just Won a NASA Award

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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NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk

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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NASA Proposes Mission to Neptune’s Largest Moon Triton

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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NASA’s Working on a Drone to Hunt For Life in Martian Caves

By Dan Robitzski

A new antimicrobial coating kept bacteria from growing on the International Space Station's door, which could protect immune-compromised astronauts.
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Scientists’ New Goal: Make the ISS Bathroom Less Disgusting

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.
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NASA Isn’t Sure What’s Wrong With Its InSight Mars Lander

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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NASA Shocked by “Plumes Erupting From an Asteroid’s Surface”

By Jon Christian

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

By Victor Tangermann

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NASA Engineer: Humans Should Consider Settling Saturn’s Moon Titan

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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NASA: Space Travel Is Causing Astronauts’ Herpes to Flare Up

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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NASA Might Send Astronauts Around the Moon on Commercial Rocket

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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Former NASA Chief Scientist: Humans Could Be on Mars in Five Years

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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NASA Leader: First Human on Mars “Likely to Be” a Woman

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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NASA Wants to Send a Sample Return Mission to Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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

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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New NASA Measurements: Milky Way Galaxy Is “On the Beefier Side”

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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NASA’s Stunning Image: Supersonic Shockwaves Smashing Together

By Kristin Houser

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

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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NASA Announces World’s First All-Female Spacewalk

By Kristin Houser

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

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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FDA Approves Ketamine-Based Nasal Spray to Treat Depression

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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Canada Commits $150 Million to NASA’s Moon-Orbiting Space Station

By Kristin Houser

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

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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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.
International Space Station

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