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Researchers couldn't find any reason why human hibernation shouldn't be possible — and cracking it could help us explore the cosmos.
Developments

Scientists: Human Hibernation Is Entirely Possible

The Trump Administration wanted NASA to put an astronaut on the Moon by 2024 instead of 2028 as originally planned. So far, the new timeline isn't working.
Moon

Congress Is Furious That NASA Doesn’t Have a Moon Plan Yet

NASA and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are working on sending an underwater drone to the deepest points of the Earth's oceans.
Exobiology

NASA’s New Deep-Sea Submarine Could Eventually Look for Aliens

A proposed NASA space telescope called HabEx would use a gigantic sail to filter out the light from distant stars while hunting new exiplanets.
Science & Energy

Scientists Want a Giant Folding Space Telescope to Find Earth 2.0

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Tries to Start Digging, But Hits Snag
Mars

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Tries to Start Digging, But Hits Snag

Here are our most read stories from 2019 — along with our best guesses about what our popular science writing might mean for the future.
Future Society

The Top Ten Most-Read Futurism Stories of 2019

Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA funds projects that go "to the edge of science fiction, but not over."
NASA

NASA Is Funding the Development of 18 Bizarre New Projects

NASA scientists detected a thermonuclear explosion in space, which they believe was caused by a fusion reaction on the surface of a pulsar.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Huge Thermonuclear Blast in Deep Space

On Friday, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch completed a nearly seven-hour-long ISS spacewalk, the 215th in space station history.
International Space Station

NASA Announces Successful Completion of ISS Spacewalk

NASA and the White House are asking Congress to add $1.6 billion to NASA's budget to enable the agency's Moon mission to meet its 2024 goal.
Moon

White House, NASA Request $1.6 Billion to Return Humans to Moon

The U.S. Space Force is scheduled to conduct its first launch on Thursday afternoon. It's expected to deliver the final part of a new communication network.
Space Force

The US Space Force Is About to Finally Leave the Planet

A team of MIT scientists belive that the magnetic field of the Moon was caused by a crystallizing iron core "dynamo" about a billion years ago.
Science & Energy

MIT: A “Dynamo” Inside the Moon Shut Down a Billion Years Ago

NASA just published the full results of its extensive study into how space travel altered astronaut Scott Kelly's health and gene expression.
NASA

NASA: Genetic Changes Caused by Space Travel Are Temporary

NASA has determined that a pair of Taurus XL rockets failed their satellite launch missions due to faulty materials from an aluminum manufacturer.
NASA

NASA: Manufacturer’s Lies Caused Two Satellite Launches to Fail

NASA has replaced Anne McClain with male astronaut Nick Hague for what would have been the world's first all-female spacewalk.
NASA

NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk

By extending astronaut Christina Koch's space mission to 328 days, NASA hopes to glean new insights into the impact of longterm spaceflight on humans.
NASA

NASA Announces Plan to Keep Astronaut in Space for 328 Days

On the week of the 15th anniversary of NASA's Opportunity rover's touchdown, officials are acknowledging that it could be permanently out of commission.
NASA

NASA’s Opportunity Rover Feared Dead: “An Honorable Death”

NASA is sending a pair of "robotic bees" to the ISS — a project the space agency is positioning as one of the most advanced experiments in space robotics.
NASA

NASA Is Sending Cute “Robotic Bees” to the Space Station

This scientist from Oregon State University believes the professor who claims to have evidence of insects on Mars was just an example of pareidolia.
Exobiology

University Deletes Press Release Claiming Evidence of Bugs on Mars

NASA has released an image for Halloween that looks like a ghostly face but is actually two galaxies colliding some 704 million light-years away.
Science & Energy

Colliding Galaxies Look Like the Glowing Eyes of a Ghostly Face