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NASA will need $35 billion over the next four years to successfully complete the Artemis Moon mission, according to Human Spaceflight Chief Doug Loverro.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

NASA equipped the 2020 Mars rover with a powerful laser, capable of vaporizing rocks. It's an extreme way of learning what they're made of.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to a NASA safety review panel, Boeing's first uncrewed flight test of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft almost ended in a "catastrophic failure."
Boeing

By Victor Tangermann

Axiom Space, the company that's developing a privately-owned "space hotel" module for the ISS, shared more details on when it plans to launch.
Off-World

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is asking potential industry partners, including electric car companies, to send them ideas for lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) designs.
Advanced Transport

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Christine Koch has returned to Earth after spending a record-setting 328 days aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

By Kristin Houser

An updated NASA animation reveals what the world would look like if all of Earth's oceans, rivers, and lakes slowly vanished.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA announced on Monday that it has chosen private space station manufacturer Axiom Space to build the first space hotel for the ISS.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover just experienced a technical glitch losing its orientation, forcing it to stop in its tracks.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An experimental NASA program is tinkering with the idea of building a Mars or Moon base out of living mushrooms that astronauts would grow onsite.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

A piece of astronaut Christina Koch's helmet fell off during an ISS spacewalk on Wednesday, forcing her to rely on her partner Jessica Meir for light.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

NASA's new instrument, NEID, can measure the mass of a distant exoplanet with three times the sensitivity of any other equipment out there.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Kristin Houser

NASA released a new panorama image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Aside from looking cool, it could help reveal how the galactic core operates.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

During their long-term mission aboard the International Space Station, a NASA astronaut developed a blood clot in the jugular vein of their neck.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine proposed to send Japanese astronauts to the Moon in the late 2020s as part of a joint plan with the US.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just released an image of a "cosmic candy cane" in the center of the galaxy. The unusually shaped cloud is likely linked to active star formation.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Boeing's Starliner missed its intended orbit for its first mission and burned up too much fuel to complete its planned journey to the ISS.
Boeing

By Kristin Houser

NASA's Mars 2020 rover rolled forward and backward for the first time inside a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, clearing small ramps.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA recently spotted yet another gigantic storm on Jupiter's south pole, bringing the total count up to seven swirling vortices.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just released a new image, the clearest yet, of 2I/Borisov, the second ever interstellar visitor we've seen enter our solar system.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Dan Robitzski

Ad Astra CEO and former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz is building a plasma rocket engine that he thinks is our best bet to send people to Mars.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, NASA built a complete map of the surface of a neutron star, giving astronomers a new resource as they try to understand the cosmos.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA researchers have created a "treasure map" detailing where they believe water ice exists just below the surface of Mars.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

After many years of delay, NASA has finally shown off its Space Launch System (SLS) that aims to ferry American astronauts to the Moon as soon as 2024.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

a recent discovery about 1,600-foot space rock Bennu has scientists scratching their heads: it keeps spitting up small asteroid particles.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The chief of India's space agency claimed their orbiter had spotted Vikram, the perished lunar lander, months before NASA announced it had found it.
Future Society

By Victor Tangermann

Four new papers reveal new findings from NASA's Parker Solar Probe that could rewrite the way we understand the way stars are born, evolve, and die.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS captured footage of a comet suddenly exploding in a bizarre phenomenon called a comet outburst.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

New studies suggest that planet-wide dust storms and gigantic plumes called dust towers could have sucked up the planet's surface water.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just announced that it finally found the crash site debris and remains of India's long lost lunar lander called Vikram.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is about to test a prototype cosmic radiation-blocking vest by strapping it to a dummy and sending ti around the Moon.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) may be far from home, but that doesn't mean they'll miss out on Thanksgiving dinner.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

NASA is sending a rover to Antarctica to train for missions during which it'll hunt for alien life in the icy oceans of far-off moons
NASA

By Kristin Houser

See SpaceX perform a static fire test on the SuperDraco engines that form its Crew Dragon spacecraft's emergency abort system.
Crew Dragon

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk doesn't think it's fair that NASA will pay Boeing 60 percent more than SpaceX to provide the same service.
Boeing

By Kristin Houser

A team out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has confirmed traces of water vapor being released above Jupiter's moon Europa.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA: Boeing Spaceflights Are Way Pricier Than SpaceX
Boeing

By Victor Tangermann

According to a shocking new report by NASA scientists, blood flow can stop and even reverse in the upper bodies of astronauts.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

China has successfully launched its Tianwen-1 — Heavenly Questions — mission to Mars, including an orbiter, lander, and a rover.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A free new app called "Rocket Science: Ride 2 Station," created by NASA, lets you control your very own SpaceX Crew Dragon or Boeing Starliner.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

The levels of oxygen on Mars increase and decrease over the year in a way that just doesn't make sense to scientists, a new paper reveals.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Asteroid Ultima Thule was renamed by NASA to "Arrokoth" thanks to the Nazi connotations of its old name, as Agence France-Press reports.
Future Society

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Dan Robitzski

Boeing just sent NASA its proposal for a crewed lunar lander that could ferry astronauts to the Moon by 2024 via NASA's planned "Lunar Gateway."
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that his company's Starship rocket will only require $900,000 of fuel per launch and cost $2 million per mission overall.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks
Moon

By Kristin Houser

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

By Kristin Houser

NASA is working with Caterpillar on Moon mining rocks from the Moon's surface to be used as raw materials on the space agency's planned lunar base.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency is about to test if an astronaut on board the International Space Station is capable of taking control of Moon rovers from space.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A strange "contaminant" hitchhiked on the glove of NASA astronaut Christine Koch's spacesuit and made its way back into the station.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

One of the mockup Moon habitats NASA is considering is a 55-foot-long inflatable tent that reaches a height equivalent to a two-story building.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

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

By Jon Christian

Congress still isn't ready to approve a budget increase to support a 2024 crewed Moon mission — but it isn't quite ready to deny it either.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

NASA required SpaceX to undergo review to make sure workers weren't getting high after Elon Musk smoked weed. But, inexcplicably, NASA paid for it.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has designed two new spacesuits to support its 2024 mission to the Moon, and the suits are better than their predecessors in almost every way.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

Image via Pixabay/Kevin Sanderson/Tag Hartman-Simkins
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

As the International Space Station approaches its inevitable retiring, NASA is encouraging private companies to build their own.
NASA

By Dan Robitzski

After a public feud, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seem to be on better terms, and they plan on hanging out on Thursday.
NASA

By Dan Robitzski

Former NASA scientist Gilbert Levin argues we already discovered we're not alone in the universe during NASA's Viking mission to find life on Mars in 1976.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Based on rover findings, NASA scientists envision Mars' Gale Crater to once have resembled the Altiplanos, the high altitude regions of South America.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers found traces of organic compounds in plumes that burst from Saturn's moon Enceladus. A sign of life if all the conditions are right.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected some "peculiar sounds" thanks to its onboard seismometer that's capable of picking up on the tiniest of vibrations.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann