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

By Noor Al-Sibai

Axiom Space showed off a prototype of its brand new spacesuit today — a design created by the costume designer of the hit sci-fi show "For All Mankind."
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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

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.
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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

By Frank Landymore

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

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.
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By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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

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.
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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

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. 
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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.
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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.
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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

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. 
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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

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.
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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

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.
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By Frank Landymore

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

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

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

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

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

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.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released a stunning infrared image of Jupiter's moon Io, which shows the celestial body's volcanically-active surface.
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By Victor Tangermann

Bad news for astronauts looking to go home: their ride back, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, suddenly started leaking uncontrollably.
International Space Station

By Frank Landymore

With hard work and a good luck, scientists have clinched the first ever audio recording of a dust devil on Mars, helping solve mysteries of its atmosphere.
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By Frank Landymore

Who better than to call Elon Musk out on extremely gross, transphobic behavior than fellow Space Dude and Outspoken Guy, former US astronaut Scott Kelly?
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA administrator and former astronaut Bill Nelson is relieved that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk isn't actually in charge of running the space company.
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By Victor Tangermann

Titan is Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, and new observations from the James Webb may help understand how it formed its unique atmosphere.
James Webb Space Telescope

By Frank Landymore

NASA announced that teams have lost contact with its CubeSat to Study Solar Particles (CuSP), which was deployed by Artemis I last month.
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By Victor Tangermann

There's still no definitive answer as to what that bizarre smell is on the ISS, but a new report may provide some clues — and they're pretty gross.
International Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

Part of the maiden voyage of NASA's Artemis Moon mission, the Orion capsule is now headed back from lunar orbit and will splash down soon in the Pacific.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

YouTuber extraordinaire and NASA alum Mark Rober took it upon himself to launch an egg into space only to release it and have it land safely.
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By Victor Tangermann

Lockheed Martin showed off an Amazon Alexa-enabled "party mode" on board NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft, which is making its way around the Moon.
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By Victor Tangermann

3D printing firm ICON just landed a $57.2 million contract from NASA for Project Olympus, the company's mission to create 3D-printed Moon shelters.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The OMOTENASHI (Outstanding MOon exploration TEchnologies demonstrated by NAno Semi-Hard Impactor), a JAXA CubeSat that launched with Artemis I, has failed.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The next Indiana Jones film, set in 1969, features Indy fighting NASA Nazis. The sad truth? A few of these guys actually existed.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Artemis mission has, after months of delay and tens of billions of dollars, finally reached the Moon, which it will orbit for the next 3.5 weeks.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Scott Kelly, the retired NASA astronaut who once held the American record for the longest time spent in a single off-world orbit, is an outspoken guy.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It appears that NASA's Artemis 1 rocket launchpad caught way more damage than expected when it finally took off from Kennedy Space Center last week. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai