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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

NASA's Voyager 1 probe is 46 years old and pushing middle age — and some of that aging is apparently showing.

Voyager 1 Is in Serious Trouble, NASA Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

James Webb Snaps Epic Shot of Exploded Star

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Snaps Epic Shot of Exploded Star

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is working on bringing the Hubble Telescope back online, but the orbital observatory is getting very old.

NASA Says It’s Trying to Bring the Hubble Back Online

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has come across a mysteriously familiar "ghostly" object that never showed up in Hubble observations.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Strange “Ghostly” Object Reappearing

By Victor Tangermann

As Scientific American reports, NASA estimates that it'll cost almost $1 billion to safely decommission the International Space Station.

Destroying the Space Station Will Cost NASA $1 Billion

By Victor Tangermann

NASA unveiled an image of the Milky Way, showing greater detail of a region close to the nucleus of the galaxy plus mysterious structures.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Detects “Unexplained Structures” in Heart of Our Galaxy

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA has been laser-beamed data from millions of miles away — and it was a message the agency sent itself.

NASA Receives Laser Signal From 10 Million Miles Away

By Noor Al-Sibai

An amateur astronomer has compiled new footage from NASA's asteroid-smashing mission to show just how incredible that collision really was.

Incredible New Videos Show NASA Smashing Into Asteroid

By Noor Al-Sibai

A tool bag was lost during a spacewalk at the International Space Station, and it should be orbiting low enough to see it with binoculars.

NASA Astronauts Let a Tool Bag Drift Away and You Can Now Spot It With Binoculars

By Frank Landymore

NASA Bows Down Before Mighty Worm

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers at Kyoto University has constructed a satellite made out of wood — and it's almost ready to fly into space.

NASA Getting Ready to Launch Wooden Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to NASA's space probe Juno, astronomers finally have confirmation of salt and organic compounds in Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.

NASA Says It’s Spotted Organic Compounds on Jupiter’s Largest Moon

By Frank Landymore

During a Thursday spacewalk outside of the International Space Station, two NASA astronauts lost an entire bag of tools.

NASA Astronauts Accidentally Lose Tool Bag During Space Walk

By Victor Tangermann

It appears that until recently, Fox News host Laura Ingraham did not know that the James Webb Space Telescope existed.

James Webb Space Telescope

Fox News Host Tries to Mock Biden By Claiming Webb Telescope Isn’t Real

By Noor Al-Sibai

Colorado-based space startup Sierra Space has made considerable progress on its Dream Chaser spaceplane and is almost ready for flight.

Dream Chaser Spaceplane Ready for NASA Tests

By Victor Tangermann

Robin Witt, who helped build NASA's Artemis I rocket, was living her dream. She says that Florida's anti-trans laws cut that dream short.

Anti-Trans Laws Force Engineer to Quit Job Helping NASA With Moon Missions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA attempted to spit facts about humans' inability to fly to Jupiter — and then was forced to apologize.

NASA Apologies for Saying Your Broke A** Will Never Go to Jupiter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly skeleton hand floating in outer space some 16,000 light-years from Earth.

NASA Shows Off Image That Looks an Awful Lot Like Skeleton Fingers Floating in Space

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has made big moves with its Orion spacecraft, which will soon undergo rigorous testing in anticipation of the Artemis II flight.

NASA Is Making Huge Progress on Crewed Moon Capsule

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The International Space Station's retirement date is looming, and NASA warns that there could be "catastrophe" if it's not safely taken down.

NASA Terrified of Space Station Careening Out of Control and Crashing Into People

By Frank Landymore

A new atomic study of an Apollo 17-era Moon crystal suggests that the Moon formed roughly 40 million years earlier than previously thought.

NASA Surprised by What It Found Studying Ancient Moon Crystal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré