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The James Webb Space Telescope's latest discovery is a doozy, and it seems like it's raising more questions than it's answering.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Detects Mysterious Water Vapor Around Alien Planet

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has figured out a way to extend the mission of its interstellar Voyager 2 probe by another three years.

NASA Hack Squeezes More Time Out of Dying Voyager 2 Probe

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil inside a vacuum chamber.

NASA Extracts Oxygen From Simulated Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

Brandon Cavanaugh, a 37-year-old former NASA intern and Boeing aerospace engineer, was sentenced for storming the capitol.

Former NASA Intern Sentenced for Storming the US Capitol on Jan 6

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA is locking four individuals inside a 1,700-square-foot Mars habitat analog for an entire year to see if they can get along.

NASA Selects Test Subjects to Contain in Simulated Mars Base

By Frank Landymore

Nearly 21 years after it was launched, NASA's RHESSI satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere. Chances it'll hit you are apparently "low."

This NASA Satellite Is Falling Back to Earth After 21 Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has turned its giant 6.2 million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) into a replica of the surface of the Moon to train astronauts.

NASA Building Huge Underwater Moon Replica

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese astronomer spotted green streaks of light passing over a cloudy sky, which, as it turns out, were shot out by NASA's ICESat-2 satellite.

NASA’s Mighty Sky Lasers Spotted by Japanese Astronomer

By Victor Tangermann

The facility will be used to monitor how humans handle living a year on Mars. A grueling experiment, but at least the volunteers will be able to game.

NASA’s Simulated Mars Habitat Includes Such Necessities As a PS4 and Settlers of Catan

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have long debated the source of ULXs, chalking their brightness up to optical illusions. A new study confirms that they're all that they appear.

NASA Confirms That Cosmic Object Is so Bright That It Defies Laws of Physics

By Frank Landymore

If you're sending humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, you better make sure your astronauts are safe — and look good while doing it.

NASA’s Moon Spacesuits Are Brain-Meltingly Expensive

By Frank Landymore

The new director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has spoken about her decision to be sworn in on a copy of "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan.

New NASA Goddard Director Explains Why She Was Sworn in on a Carl Sagan Book

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you look closely at the photo that accompanies NASA's press release about the new Goddard Center director, you'll see something curious and delightful.

New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a random Canadian astronaut going to the Moon with three Americans from NASA next year — and according to him, that's by design.

Canadian Astronaut Says He’s Going to the Moon So NASA Can Blame Him If Anything Goes Wrong

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA just dropped its new graphics in the wake of its crew announcement for the Artemis II mission to the Moon and, reader, they're so lit.

NASA’s New Artemis II Graphics Are So Freaking Awesome, Y’all

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronaut chief Joe Acaba wanted to get three lucky astronauts all in the same meeting to tell them they were Moon-bound. Easier said than done.

NASA Ran Into Trouble Telling Astronauts They Were Going to the Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA has announced the astronauts who will fly to the Moon during the Artemis II mission, the first humans to head to the Moon in more than 50 years.

NASA Announces the Astronauts Who Are Returning to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA astronaut and current podcaster Clayton Anderson has been caught liking a spate of transphobic tweets.

Former NASA Astronaut Caught Faving Transphobic Tweets

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dimorphos' much larger companion asteroid Didymos is spinning so fast that it's capable of ejecting pieces of rubble into deep space.

NASA Intrigued by Asteroid That Seems to Be Shooting Rocks Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, a dust storm has been observed outside of our Solar System — and it was the James Webb Space Telescope that made the discovery.

James Webb Space Telescope

The Webb Telescope Is So Powerful, It Spotted a Dust Storm on a Planet in a Different Star System

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA Debuts Its Brand New Sci-Fi-Inspired Moonsuit — But It’s a Rental

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a Wolf-Rayet, an absolutely massive classification of star that is on the verge of a supernova.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Breathtaking Image of a Titanic Star That’s About to Explode

By Frank Landymore

NASA could be getting a bigger budget next year, with hopes of allocating money to developing its own spacecraft to retire the ISS.

NASA Wants to Build a Special Spacecraft to Destroy the ISS

By Frank Landymore

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Demolishes Hubble’s Record of Fitting the Most Galaxies in a Single Image

By Frank Landymore

Elementary school students have discovered that EpiPens can turn poisonous after being launched into space due to space radiation.

NASA Surprised When School Children Discover That EpiPens Become Toxic in Space

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has reinforced the launch date for its crewed Artemis II Moon mission next year — that is, if they're able to make it.

NASA Says It’ll Be Launching Crewed Moon Mission Around Thanksgiving 2024

By Noor Al-Sibai

As part of a Mars cloud survey, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged spectacular crepuscular rays for the first time during an especially painterly sunset.

NASA Rover Snaps Amazing View of Sunset on Mars

By Frank Landymore

Mistakes are bound to happen in rocket launches, but a massive one last summer resulted in a rocket launch company losing two NASA satellites.

Government Contractor Lost Two NASA Satellites, Company Admits

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of large asteroids lurking between Mars and Jupiter are an awful lot like the dwarf planet Ceres, and are harboring tons of water.

NASA Astronomers Identify “Dark Asteroids” Brimming With Water

By Frank Landymore

Lazarus, a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang clan who happens to be a practicing physician, is also a space nerd eager to debut his single from the ISS.

Wu-Tang Affiliate Collaborates With NASA to Release Rap Song About Space

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab are studying the earliest chemical reactions that may have led to the formation of life on Earth.

NASA Facility Replicating Conditions to Form Life

By Victor Tangermann

Using old data, NASA has discovered that Venus' mantle may be "squishy" and full of volcanic activity, which could explain one of its biggest mysteries.

NASA Says Venus Is Being Remade by a Squishy Shell

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's analysis of Ryugu asteroid samples revealed chemical compounds that support the theory that space dust contains the building blocks for life.

NASA First Look at Japanese Asteroid Samples Reveal the Building Blocks for Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bad news if you're hoping to hear about definitive signs of Martian life soon: the instruments of Mars rovers just aren't advanced enough.

Scientists Find NASA’s Mars Rover Would Struggle to Detect Life on Earth

By Frank Landymore

The proposed NASA probe would "explore how Uranus formed; how much it migrated after formation; the planet's interior structure," and much more.

NASA Scientist Calls for Exploration of Uranus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After another coollant leak on a Russian spacecraft, NASA and Roscosmos are indefinitely postponing the return flight for the astronauts on the ISS.

Damaged Russian Spacecraft Means NASA Astronauts Might Stay Stuck on the ISS

By Noor Al-Sibai

A second Russian spacecraft docked to the International Space Station has sprung a leak in one of its coolant lines in just a matter of months.

International Space Station

Another Russian Spacecraft Docked to the ISS Just Sprang a Leak

By Victor Tangermann

We have a humble suggestion: NASA should make interplanetary history once more by having its Ingenuity Mars helicopter do some sick tricks.

Suggestion: NASA Should Make Its Mars Helicopter Do Some Gnarly Tricks From “Tony Hawk”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has made yet another astonishing discovery: "the mission's clearest evidence yet" of "ancient water ripples."

NASA Rover Finds What Appears to Be Ancient Water Ripple on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is adjusting its orbit to make sure it won't get pelted with even more micrometeorites.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Adjusting James Webb Orbit to Get Damaged by Micrometeoroids Less

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced the accidental discovery of an "extremely small" asteroid by the James Webb Space Telescope — but in space, size is relative.

James Webb Space Telescope

Baby Asteroid Photobombs James Webb On Accident

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have now pinpointed the location of an "engine" overpowering a galactic merger with infrared light.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Reveals Mysteriously Powerful “Engine” of Two Merging Galaxies

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet's barren surface, an iron-nickel meteorite.

NASA Mars Rover Finds Metallic Object That Smashed Down on Surface

By Victor Tangermann

There might be an upside to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope being pelted by showers of micrometeorites once to twice a month.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Say There’s an Upside to Those Rocks That Keep Bludgeoning the James Webb

By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station is, without a doubt, really awesome — but even NASA has to admit when the ISS has reached its limits.

NASA Official Admits There’s a Bit of an Issue on the Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

After almost two years of roaming the surface, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially dropped off the tenth and final Martian soil sample.

NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance Just Dropped Off Its Last Sample

By Victor Tangermann

As the Artemis mission's 2024 launch date steadily approaches, NASA is undertaking its secretive selection process to decide who will be sent to the Moon.

NASA Finalizing Secretive Decision on First Astronauts for the Artemis Moon Mission

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb was able to spot the coldest ice on record that may hold clues to the formation of organic molecules across the universe.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Discovers Coldest Ice in Known Universe, Harboring Molecules Essential For Life

By Frank Landymore

NASA has announced that it's setting up a facility specifically to deposit Mars rock samples, which may contain traces of ancient life on the Red Planet.

NASA Setting Up Facility For Mars Rock Samples That Might Contain Alien Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

First spotted in 2013, astronomers have come back for another, extremely rarely look at the centaur called Chariklo that they now think harbors ice water.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Asteroid With Its Own Saturn-Like Rings

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo of an unusually mammalian structure on our dusty red neighbor. Definitely looks like a bear.

Internet Erupts as NASA Spots Cartoon Bear on Surface of Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the instruments attached to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has encountered a glitch, making it "currently unavailable for science observations."

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Says Another James Webb Instrument Has Suffered a Glitch

By Victor Tangermann

After trying and failing for over a year, NASA scientists have suspended further deployment attempts of the Lucy spacecraft's solar array.

NASA Says Lucy Spacecraft Will Forge Ahead With Busted Solar Array

By Frank Landymore

Freshman congressman and alleged serial liar George Santos will soon be sitting on a committee charged with overseeing NASA.

Serial Liar George Santos Tapped For Committee in Charge of NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA just found a second Earth-sized planet orbiting a nearby dwarf star, and it may, the agency notes, potentially be habitable.

NASA Just Discovered an Earth-Like Habitable Planet Orbiting a Nearby Star

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has issued a grant for an autonomous aircraft concept dubbed TitanAir designed to skim over the liquid methane lakes of Saturn's icy moon Titan.

NASA Considers Surfing the Lakes of Saturn’s Moon With an Autonomous Airplane

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced details about the multi-billion successor to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope called the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

NASA Unveils Plan for Giant Telescope to Spot Life on Alien Planets

By Victor Tangermann

A derelict NASA satellite called Earth Radiation Budget Satellite has plummeted back to Earth after spending almost four decades in orbit.

Derelict NASA Satellite Crashes Down to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Russia Slaps Down Plan for SpaceX to Rescue NASA Astronaut Stranded By Leaking Soyuz Spacecraft

Russia Slaps Down Plan for SpaceX to Rescue NASA Astronaut Stranded By Leaking Soyuz Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe to have discovered a massive cache of precious gemstones on the surface of Mars in the form of opals.

NASA Discovers Precious Gemstones on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator and former astronaut Bill Nelson is afraid that China may get to the Moon first — and claim portions of the surface as its own territory.

The Head of NASA Is Scared Chinese Astronauts Will Seize Portions of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's InSight Lander has persevered for four years, but it may actually be drawing to its final end this time, despite rumblings of its demise before.

Dramatic NASA Mars Lander Insists It’s Dying For Real This Time

By Frank Landymore

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which is currently docked to the ISS, sprung a leak. Officials have now identified a hole following an inspection.

International Space Station

Russia Finds Hole in Spacecraft Docked to International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is very pleased with just how much material was released when it intentionally smashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in September.

NASA Pleased With the Degree to Which It Kicked This Asteroid’s A**

By Victor Tangermann