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A NASA director warned that Elon Musk's proposed Starship design was going to be "orders of magnitude" more difficult than any NASA project in history.
Starship

NASA Chief: SpaceX’s Starship Tougher Than Any NASA Project, Ever

Last month, a SpaceX Crew Dragon shuttle crash-landed after its parachutes failed, but NASA says it's a learning experience.
NASA

NASA Admits SpaceX Ship Crashed During Failed Test Last Month

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less
3D Printing

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

Space Force Lt. General David Thompson clarifies what, exactly, the new military branch does, and how it plans to work with private companies.
Science & Energy

Space Force Working “Pretty Closely With Elon Musk and SpaceX”

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed to send a spacecraft called "Trident" to Neptune's largest moon Triton.
Moon

NASA Proposes Mission to Neptune’s Largest Moon Triton

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has told the agency's employees that India's satellite destruction test has put the ISS in danger.
NASA

NASA: When India Blew up a Satellite, It Endangered Astronauts

An asrtist's rendering of NASA's Phoenix lander flexing its robotic arm.
NASA

Here’s How NASA Dreams up Robotic Arms for Landers

Engineer Jau Tang has plans to clean up our act. His research shows how we could do away with fossil fuels, instead powering vehicles with plasma and air.
Advanced Transport

This Scientist Says He’s Built a Jet Engine That Turns Electricity Directly Into Thrust

A new report quotes a yet-unpublished email Musk sent out to SpaceX employees, in which he apologizes for smoking weed with Rogan.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Apologized to SpaceX Employees After Smoking Weed

Monica Grady, a professor at Liverpool Hope University, claims that there is "almost a racing certainty" there's alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa.
Exobiology

University Chancellor Predicts “Higher Forms of Life” on Europa

Incredibly Tough NASA Sensor May Have Survived Moon Lander Crash
Moon

Incredibly Tough NASA Sensor May Have Survived Moon Lander Crash

Japanese space agency JAXA announced today it has greenlit a sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos called the Martian Moons Exploration mission.
Science & Energy

Japan Gives the ‘Go’ to Sample Return Mission to Mars Moon

For the first time, scientists identified a protein molecule in a meteorite. And they say they that it didn't come from Earth.
Chemistry

Scientists Discover Protein in a Meteorite

A team of astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey suspect there's a small asteroid that caught itself in our planet's gravity, like a moon.
Science & Energy

Astronomers: Our Planet Might Have Another Moon, Except It’s Tiny

NASA has big plans for its female astronauts — according to administrator Jim Bridenstine, the first person to reach Mars will "likely" be a woman.
Mars

NASA Leader: First Human on Mars “Likely to Be” a Woman

NASA included a possible 2026 sample return mission to Mars in this week's budget request. Congress has yet to approve the budget.
Mars

NASA Wants to Send a Sample Return Mission to Mars

In a live stream, NASA's New Horizon spacecraft team revealed new details about Ultima Thule — a space rock floating 6.6 kilometers away from Earth.
NASA

Here’s NASA’s Newly-Released Image of Ultima Thule

SpaceX will provide launch services for NASA's DART mission, which is designed to test a plan for preventing an asteroid from hitting Earth.
NASA

NASA Asks SpaceX to Help It Save Earth From Incoming Asteroids

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced the country's first ever plans to send astronauts to the surface of Mars.
Mars

China Unveils Plan to Send Astronauts to Mars

NASA just announced that one of its spacecrafts has made a surprise discovery: "particle plumes erupting" from the surface of a large asteroid called Bennu.
NASA

NASA Shocked by “Plumes Erupting From an Asteroid’s Surface”