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A team of researchers have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of an exoplanet nine times Earth's mass and 111 light years away.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Spot Water — and Maybe Rain — on a Distant Planet

While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.
Solar Power

Juno Captures Stunning Images of a Solar Eclipse on Jupiter

California’s Air Protein says it’s figured out how to make meat from thin air — by building on an idea NASA had in the 1960s.
Science & Energy

This Startup Says It Can Create “Meat” Out of Thin Air

NASA could put humans on Mars in just five years if given the money to do so, according to Ellen Stofan, the agency's former chief scientist.
Mars

Former NASA Chief Scientist: Humans Could Be on Mars in Five Years

SpaceX has published a new page on its website dedicated its Starship rocket, as well the Super Heavy, Starship's booster.
Starship

SpaceX Releases Beautiful Diagrams of Starship, Super Heavy

NASA astronauts were treated to an amazing sight on June 22, 2019 when the Raikoke Volcano in Eastern Russia erupted into a massive cloud of dark smoke.
Science & Energy

Watching This Volcano Erupt From Space Is Absolutely Epic

Research suggests that extended trips into space might cause cognitive decline in astronauts, as the brain changes without the influence of gravity.
Science & Energy

New Research: Astronauts Are Experiencing Cognitive Decline

On Monday, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner flew for the first time as part of a launch abort test — and during the test, one of its parachutes didn't deploy.
Boeing

Boeing Starliner’s Parachute Fails to Deploy During First Flight

NASA: Meteor Exploded Over Russia With 10x Energy of Atomic Bomb
NASA

NASA: Meteor Exploded Over Russia With 10x Energy of Atomic Bomb

Keeping track of an immense and growing amount of objects in Earth's orbit is becoming increasingly difficult and could end in disaster, as NPR reports.
Space

Experts Call for System Preventing Satellite Collisions

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that launched in 2009 could assist future commercial and international lunar landers.
Moon

NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Could Assist Commercial Missions to the Moon

When Donald Trump confused the first all-female ISS spacewalk for the first female spacewalk, astronaut Jessica Meir was quick to correct him.
Off-World

Watch Astronaut Jessica Meir Tell Trump He’s Wrong, From Space

Scientists are suggesting that the methane-filled lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan could have been formed by massive explosions.
Science & Energy

Huge Explosions May Have Formed Lakes on Saturn’s Moon Titan

A new NASA page beams weather data from the space agency's InSight lander, on the Red Planet, straight to your web browser.
NASA

NASA Lander Now Provides Daily Martian Weather Reports

NASA Is About to Test a Giant Solar Drone That Broadcasts 5G
Drones

NASA Is About to Test a Giant Solar Drone That Broadcasts 5G

Christina Koch set a record spaceflight. This is what happened when she returned to her dog, who is, unlike its owner, an underachiever.
Off-World

This Record-Breaking Astronaut’s Dog Is Really Glad to See Her. But.

SpaceX hopes to prove that NASA astronauts will be safe aboard Crew Dragon by deliberately destroying a Falcon 9 rocket soon after launch.
Falcon

SpaceX Is Going to Blow up a Falcon 9 Rocket Just After Launch

Astronomers found an exoplanet that should've been swallowed by its Sun during the red giant evolutionary stage — but they could still pinpoint its location.
Science & Energy

Did This Planet Survive Getting Swallowed By Its Sun?

A nuclear-powered tunneling bot could burrow through Europa's icy shell to probe its composition and, potentially, access the watery darkness under it.
Exobiology

NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Tunneling Bot Could Hunt for Life on Europa

An Indian newspaper quoted an ISRO official as saying that the country's lunar lander landed in one piece. The report has yet to be confirmed.
Moon

Indian Official: Moon Lander May Have Survived in One Piece