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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover came across mysterious puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day.

NASA Ponders Why Gas Produced by Life Is Leaking Out of Mars at Night

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time in five months, NASA's ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back usable data — thanks to some "inventive sleuthing."

NASA’s Ingenious Hack Brings Dying Voyager Probe Back Online

By Victor Tangermann

A former NASA scientist says he has discovered a new force that could help us develop thrusters that don't need propellant to work.

Former NASA Engineer Says He’s Invented a Thruster That Doesn’t Require Propellant

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's administrator is once again making outrageous claims about China's space capabilities, fueling the rivalry between the two.

Head of NASA Says China Is Hiding Military Experiments in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

The International Space Station has long been known to be gross, and according to a new study, it has bacteria mutating into something alien.

International Space Station

Mutant Bacteria Discovered Aboard International Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

Last month, a 2-pound object crashed through the roof of Alexandro Otero's home in Florida. NASA admitted it belonged to the space station.

NASA Admits Space Station Junk Crashed Through Man’s Roof

By Victor Tangermann

On Mars, a little helicopter from another world bedded down for its final mission on Tuesday: to become a silent sentry on the Red Planet.

Dying Mars Helicopter Sends NASA Final Transmission

By Sharon Adarlo

In late February, a Russian satellite nearly hit an American one — and now, NASA's admitting how terrifying it was.

NASA Was “Really Scared” When a Russian Satellite Almost Obliterated Its Orbiter

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Perseverance rover is on Mars, it had been able to capture Mars’ two moons — Deimos and Phobos — float past in front of the Sun.

Here’s What NASA’s Rovers See During an Eclipse on Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), otherwise known as Danuri, photobomed NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

NASA Spots Object Speeding Around the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The NASA Parker Solar probe took stunning images of the turbulent interior of the massive expulsion from the Sun.

Video Shows NASA Probe Flying Directly Through a Coronal Mass Ejection Off the Sun

By Frank Landymore

The White House released a new memorandum in an attempt to establish a new time standard for the Moon called "Coordinated Lunar Time."

Biden Directs NASA to Figure Out What Time It Is on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The NASA mission will see three rockets launched at various stages of the eclipse to collect data on how the event affects our ionosphere.

NASA Launching Three Rockets Directly Into Eclipse

By Frank Landymore

A sizable, cylindrical object crashed through the roof of a Florida home — and experts believe it may have originated from the ISS.

NASA Recovers Debris That Crashed Through Florida Man’s Roof

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Space Telescope's dazzling imagery actually arrives to researchers in black-and-white and is colored via educated guessing.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb’s Beautiful Images Actually Arrive in Black and White

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Boulders that were released after NASA's DART spacecraft collided with asteroid Dimorphos could eventually smash into Mars.

Debris From NASA Smashing Asteroid Could Strike Mars, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

The first astronauts to walk the surface of the Moon in almost 50 years will bring a greenhouse to study how crops adapt to the environment.

NASA’s First Artemis Moon Astronauts Will Bring Small Greenhouse to Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

It's official, folks: Intuitive Machines' privately-launched Moon lander, Odysseus, has been pronounced dead.

NASA’s Privately-Launched Moon Lander Permanently Dead After Failing to Wake Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA is proposing to wind down its Chandra X-ray Observatory. And astronomers are pissed.

Astronomers Furious at Plan to Shut Down NASA Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

One of NASA's latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity's message out to the stars.

NASA Craft Hunting Alien Life Will Carry a New Message From Humanity

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have found that "little red dots" in James Webb Space Telescope images are "baby" supermassive black holes.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Surprised to Realize Red Dots in James Webb Images Are Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have become worried after NASA's Voyager 1 probe started sending nonsensical messages back to Earth.

NASA Concerned as Voyager 1 Sending Back Incomprehensible Code

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX ground control spotted a small crack forming on the seal of the Crew Dragon's hatch during countdown on Sunday.

NASA Launches Astronauts After Finding Crack in Spacecraft During Countdown

By Victor Tangermann

One recently shared image shows damage taken by NASA's Moon lander, with stripped pieces littering the lunar surface behind it.

New Photos Show Catastrophic Damage to NASA’s Moon Lander

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an unusual "extremely red" supermassive black hole billions of light-years away.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots “Extremely Red” Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

In September 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its DART spacecraft into a tiny asteroid called Dimorphos. It may now be "healing."

The Asteroid NASA Smashed Is Now Healing, Scientists Suggest

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's new Moon lander may have made a relatively safe landing, but all indications point to it being less successful than initially thought.

NASA’s New Moon Lander Is Turning Into a Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

A close-up of a model Odysseus Moon lander on a desk, with Intuitive Machines CEO Stephen Altemus' hand and torso behind it.

NASA’s Precious Moon Lander Has Toppled Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two neutron stars collided millions of years ago and the resulting explosion created a bright flash and, as scientists have found, pure gold.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Cosmic Foundry Generating Pure Gold

By Noor Al-Sibai

With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have figured out a supernova mystery that's been decades in the making.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Something Lurking in Wreckage of Supernova

By Noor Al-Sibai

Formed just 800 million years after the Big Bang, the galaxy defies our understanding of dark matter's role in the early years of the cosmos.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Befuddled by Impossible Galaxy Seen by James Webb

By Frank Landymore

NASA has officially bid adieu to its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment, fittingly having the last one burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.

NASA Experiment With Fire in Space Ends When Entire Spacecraft Burns Up

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's PACE mission will use a state-of-the-art satellite to see how aerosols and tiny phytoplanktons affect Earth's atmosphere and oceans.

NASA’s Launches Mission to Study Earth’s ‘Invisible Universe’

By Frank Landymore

A former NASA employee is sounding off on government short-sightedness — and, perhaps somewhat hyperbolically, comparing Congress to Rome.

Ex-NASA Employee Slams Government for “Folly, Arrogance, and Fully-Informed Ignorance”

By Noor Al-Sibai

James Webb Spots Two Planets Solemnly Orbiting Dead Stars

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Two Planets Solemnly Orbiting Dead Stars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's tiny Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has seen its last days — but its friend, the Perseverance rover, hasn't said goodbye just yet.

NASA Rover Spots Dead Mars Helicopter in Its “Final Resting Place”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A spectacular image taken by NASA's Juno probe this past weekend shows Jupiter's moon Io with twin eruptions on the surface.

NASA Spacecraft Swoops So Close to Io That It Can See Volcanic Eruptions

By Sharon Adarlo

Mars Sample Return in Trouble After Mass NASA Layoffs

Mars Sample Return in Trouble After Mass NASA Layoffs

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be losing about 530 people or 8 percent of its staff, plus around 40 contractors in mass lay offs.

Mass Layoffs Hit NASA

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA is debating whether to work with commercial partners to get to Mars, the first time the space agency has openly raised the possibility.

NASA Investigating Whether It Could Hire SpaceX for Mars Trip

By Victor Tangermann

Ingenuity, NASA's recently-damaged Mars helicopter, has one last task before its mission is officially over: wiggling around a little.

Derelict Helicopter Will Twitch on Mars, NASA Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, astronauts saw strange flashes of light on the Moon. NASA still wants to catch them on camera.

NASA Curious Whether Astronauts Will See Strange Flashes of Light on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Has Died

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Has Died

By Victor Tangermann

A massive NASA jet has been circling at low altitude over the San Joaquin Valley in California this week to study air quality.

NASA Aircraft Making Low Passes Over California

By Victor Tangermann

The black hole formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang, but is so massive that it should've taken far longer to reach its size.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Finds Most Ancient Black Hole Ever Discovered

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of a tiny reflector attached to India's Vikram lander.

NASA Probe Shoots Indian Moon Lander With Laser

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Rover Spots “Star Trek” Symbol on Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin has told US lawmakers that the space agency's plans to return humans to the Moon are terrible.

Former NASA Director Trashes Upcoming Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

Experts quoted in a The Spectator piece about the James Webb discovering "alien life" say they've been taken out of context.

James Webb Space Telescope

Experts Push Back Against Rumors of James Webb Life Detection

By Victor Tangermann

The detection of a key biosignature on an exoplanet by the James Webb has some scientists believing we've already found evidence of life.

James Webb Space Telescope

Rumors Circulating That James Webb Has Discovered Life on Another World

By Frank Landymore

NASA's team has finally managed to pry off the last two stuck fasteners of the container that holds most of the Bennu asteroid sample.

NASA Finally Rips Lid Off Stubborn Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann

Following a week of continuing fallout about Elon Musk's alleged use of illegal drugs, NASA has responded.

NASA Responds to Elon Musk Drug Allegations

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists has come up with a wild new way to visit our closest star Proxima Centauri using a swarm of tiny spacecraft.

NASA Funds Mission to Explore Closest Star to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reportedly laid off 100 contractors, forcing it to scale back its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission.

NASA Starts Layoffs After Budget Cuts

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's first shot at launching a Moon lander in over 50 years seems almost certainly like it's not going to make it.

Private NASA-Funded Moon Lander Is in “Critical” Condition

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its closest every flyby of Io, capturing stunning photos of the ever-shifting surface of this volcanic world.

NASA Spacecraft Zooms Close to Jupiter’s Brutal Moon, Snaps Amazing Photos

By Frank Landymore

In just under a year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will attempt to "basically almost landing" on the Sun, coming within just 3.8 million miles.

NASA Spacecraft Preparing to Attempt “Basically Landing” on the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

A new image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an up-close and stunning look at what's known as an ice flow.

NASA Releases Image of Epic Lines Carved Into Mars’ Surface

By Frank Landymore

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gotten an unprecedented, close-up look at the many rings of Uranus and its moons.

James Webb Space Telescope

The Mighty James Webb Peers Directly Into Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

A volcanic eruption resulted in a miles long fissure that spewed towering fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the air.

NASA Images Show Huge Fissure Opening Up in Iceland

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Psyche spacecraft just beamed back a cat video from almost 19 million miles away and at blistering speeds.

NASA Receives Cat Video From 19 Million Miles Away

By Victor Tangermann

If you ever find yourself aboard a spaceship and you have the sudden urge to poop — former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino offers some insight.

Former NASA Astronaut Explains How to Poop in Space

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have made a startling discovery: the husks of two old and dried-out tomatoes.

NASA Proudly Shows Off Desiccated Tomatos Lost in Space Station Crevice

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has gathered information about drug use at SpaceX — and has apparently been sitting on it for more than four years.

NASA Refuses to Say What It Found About Drug Use at SpaceX

By Noor Al-Sibai