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Mars Sample Return in Trouble After Mass NASA Layoffs
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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.
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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.
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By Victor Tangermann

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

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Has Died
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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.
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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

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.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has spotted something fascinating — a rock that seems to form the delta-shaped Starfleet logo from "Star Trek."
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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.
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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

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

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.
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By Victor Tangermann

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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

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

James Webb Snaps Epic Shot of Exploded Star
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By Victor Tangermann

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Does any other federal agency in the United States — or, let's be real, the entire world — have branding quite as iconic as NASA's?
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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.
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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.
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By Frank Landymore

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

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.
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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.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA attempted to spit facts about humans' inability to fly to Jupiter — and then was forced to apologize.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

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

NASA's two Voyager spacecraft have been through a lot. But NASA isn't giving up and is still actively uplinking software patches.
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By Victor Tangermann

Cracking the lid ofNASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample container is proving harder than expected due to two stuck fasteners.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Juno satellite captured new images of Jupiter's moon, Io, which has a fiery surface due to its many volcanoes.
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By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission has officially been launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA has canceled a planned spacewalk, citing an ammonia coolant leak, which was discovered on the Russian segment earlier this week.
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By Victor Tangermann

Two astronauts on the ISS are gearing up for a spacewalk to figure out if microorganisms on the outside of the station can survive.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA Announces Asteroid Samples Contain Both Water and Carbon
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By Victor Tangermann

The space station's Russian segment has sprung yet another coolant leak, the third in less than a year, raising questions about reliability.
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By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Axiom Space is getting a hand from luxury fashion brand Prada to design its spacesuit for NASA's upcoming lunar mission.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted hundreds of lonely "planets" that are floating through space without parent stars.
James Webb Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has spotted a super-tall dust devil on the Red Planet — and the agency has released the footage, y'all.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

An aging research center formerly used by NASA is polluting the Los Angeles River and the farms that draw water from it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

An independent review board found several serious issues regarding NASA's Mars Sample Return mission's timetable, cost, and technical plans.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through a plasma flare, specifically called a coronal mass ejection, bursting from the Sun and survived.
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By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to release a "mini-fridge size capsule" over the Utah desert this week.
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By Sharon Adarlo

NASA has announced its first-ever UFO czar after initially declining to name him out of concerns for his safety. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai