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NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine released a statement last week about how he's disappointed with SpaceX's efforts to return Americans to space.

Here’s Why Elon Musk is Feuding With the Head of NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Chief scientist at NASA Jim Green believes that were mere years away from finding life on Mars thanks to the next generation of future Mars rovers.

Science & Energy

NASA’s Chief Scientist is Oddly Terrified By Finding Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A team of NASA scientists have caught three supermassive black holes in the act of merging together a measly one billion light-years away from Earth.

Three Supermassive Black Holes Are About to Collide

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

Science & Energy

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

By Victor Tangermann

The head of Russia's space agency says it know what caused a mysterious Space Station hole — but NASA's head claims it hasn't shared the info with him.

Russia: We Know Cause of Space Station Leak but Haven’t Told NASA

By Kristin Houser

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.

Indian Official: Moon Lander May Have Survived in One Piece

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists are starting fires in space to learn more about fuel combustion. They hope it can make engines more efficient here on Earth.

Science & Energy

NASA Is Starting Fires in Space Just to Watch Them Burn

By Dan Robitzski

The launch pad for a Japanese rocket inexplicably caught fire, forcing the nation to abort an International Space Station supply mission.

Japanese Rocket’s Launch Pad Inexplicably Bursts Into Flames

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists on board the International Space Station have successfully mixed cement in the microgravity of space.

For the First Time Ever, Astronauts Mix Cement in Space

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just attached its new semi-autonomous helicopter drone to the rover it's sending to Mars next year. Pending a few more tests, it should be ready to go.

Self-Driving Vehicles

NASA Installs Autonomous Mini-Helicopter on Its Next Mars Rover

By Dan Robitzski

NASA finally pieced together the James Webb Space Telescope, connecting the telescope piece with the spacecraft piece. Now it just needs to get it in orbit.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Finally Assembled The James Webb Space Telescope

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just activated its Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), starting off its year in Earth's orbit after launching in June.

Science & Energy

NASA Officially Activates Its “GPS for Deep Space”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes Pluto is a planet — but not because he thinks the scientific definition of planethood is flawed.

Science & Energy

Pluto Is a Planet, Insists NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine

By Kristin Houser

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine believes that thermal nuclear propulsion technology would be a game-changer for space exploration.

Head of NASA: Nuclear Propulsion Could Be “Game-Changer”

By Dan Robitzski

This Roomy, Inflatable Habitat Could One Day Take You to Mars

This Roomy, Inflatable Habitat Could One Day Take You to Mars

By Victor Tangermann

An increasing wave of companies are launching bizarre space PR stunts, sending various products into orbit. They could fund NASA's future.

Science & Energy

Annoying PR Stunts Could Fund the Future of Space Travel

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has announced it's completing the final designs and planning for constructing and testing a spacecraft that will visit Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

Science & Energy

NASA is Sending a Probe to Jupiter’s Icy Moon to Look for Life

By Victor Tangermann

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is proposing to award a $2 billion prize to the first private space company to land Americans on the Moon.

Newt Gingrich Proposes $2 Billion Prize to Land on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Robotic Refuelling Mission 3 just successfully demonstrated the first of three tools designed to refuel NASA spacecraft in space.

New Tech Puts NASA One Step Closer to Fueling Spacecraft in Space

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA's Subterranean Challenge is kicking off today, and robotics teams from across the nation are mapping underground environments with robots.

These Robots Could One Day Explore Caves on Distant Planets

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley got to test out their hot new spacesuits for launch day of the long-awaited SpaceX Crew Dragon test flight.

NASA Astronauts Test SpaceX Spacesuits for Crew Dragon Launch

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's mobile Kilopower mobile fission nuclear power generator could be sent off to Mars by 2022, according to team members.

This Nuclear Reactor Could Be Shipped to Mars by 2022

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has a major wild hog problem at its Kennedy Space Center, with upwards of 12,000 of the animals terrorizing the campus.

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Is Infested With Feral Hogs. Really.

By Kristin Houser

An experiment called BioRock is figuring out whether bacteria could turn space rocks into farmable soil for future off-world settlements.

Astronomers Want to Use Bacteria to Mine Space Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers from Cornell University claim they've found the first potentially habitable "super-earth," an Earth-like planet outside the Solar System.

Science & Energy

Satellite Spots “First Nearby Super-Earth” That Could Harbor Life

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe a newly discovered trio of exoplanets just 73 light-years from Earth could serve as the ideal "lab" for future exoplanet research.

Science & Energy

Nearby Star System Looks to Be Ideal “Lab” for Exoplanet Studies

By Kristin Houser

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir hopes she's the next Moonwalker — but she isn't thrilled with NASA's emphasis on putting a woman on the Moon.

Retired Astronaut: Sending a Woman to the Moon “Sounds Like a Stunt”

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk bragged that his company could reach the Moon within two years. But NASA CFO Jeff DeWit isn't buying it.

NASA Official: SpaceX’s Moon Chances Are “Slim”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's plans to get to the Moon by 2024 are turning up the pressure to find a suitable replacement for spacesuits that date back to the 1970s.

NASA Really, Really Needs a New Spacesuit for 2024 Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of California found that there could be way more ice water on the surface of the Moon than we initially thought.

Science & Energy

Study: There’s Way More Water on the Moon Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced the first fruit to be grown in space before the end of this year: the humble Espanola chile pepper (capsicum annuum).

NASA Planning to Grow Chili Peppers on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's TESS satellite analyzed its first supernova, inadvertently revealing that astronomers made some wrong assumptions about the explosions.

Science & Energy

NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite Discovers Mysterious Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

An attempt to reconcile the discrepancy among Hubble Constant calculations only complicated the matter, raising questions about our models of the universe.

New Hubble Data Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has preliminary results to share about what it suspects caused its Crew Dragon capsule to fail during an engine test in April.

We Finally Know What Caused the SpaceX Crew Dragon Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists who work on extraterrestrial-seeking projects like SETI report a stigma within science that gets their work dismissed and funding killed.

Science & Energy

Scientists Are Terrified of SETI Research

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA Astrobiology Institute-funded project will be trying to find out if life could ever exist in Titan's ocean — and if it does, how to look for it.

Science & Energy

NASA Organizes Huge Effort to Study Alien Life in Titan’s Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just awarded Made In Space a $73.3 million contract to demonstrate 3D-printing spacecraft parts while in orbit using a small spacecraft.

NASA Approves Plan to 3D Print Giant Spaceship Parts in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

As NASA scrambles to get ready for Artemis, its upcoming crewed mission to the Moon slated for 2024, China may take the lead.

Bad News, Astronauts: NASA Probably Won’t Reach Moon by 2024

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just awarded SpaceX with a launch services contract to launch NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission in 2021.

Science & Energy

SpaceX Scores NASA Contract to Launch Black Hole Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just turned off a heater on the Voyager 2 space probe in order to conserve dwindling energy supplies as the spacecraft explores interstellar space.

The Voyager Probes Are Running Low on Power

By Dan Robitzski

A Dutch astronomer and satellite tracker Ralf Vanderberg just spotted something extraordinary and rare: the U.S. Air Force's top-secret X-37B space plane.

Amateur Astronomer Spots US Air Force Space Plane Lurking in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

NASA tested its Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System (LAS) on Tuesday — and it seems the astronaut escape plan worked exactly as hoped.

NASA’s Orion Crew Capsule Aced Its Abort System Test

By Kristin Houser

NASA's TESS mission has a new discovery: a small exoplanet named L 98-59b, the tiniest TESS has ever spotted, which NASA says could have its own atmosphere.

NASA’s TESS Mission Has Spotted Its Smallest Exoplanet Ever

By Natalie Coleman

NASA announced a new contest in which contestants are asked to come up with a design for a space garden capable of growing crops.

New NASA Contest Seeks Way to Grow a Space Garden

By Dan Robitzski

As part of project Dragonfly, NASA is planning to send a small spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan, a moon with an extremely dense atmosphere.

Breaking: NASA Announces Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan

By Victor Tangermann

Michael Manga, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, has a new theory as to what may be causing marsquakes.

Science & Energy

New Theory: Marsquakes Could be Caused by Frozen Groundwater

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Rover just found methane readings at a Martian site to be three times as high as the previously record level — posssibly a sign of life.

Science & Energy

New NASA Rover Discovery Hints at Signs of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Americans think monitoring asteroids and comets that could hit the Earth is way more imporant than crewed missions to Mars, according to a new poll.

Americans Don’t Really Care About Reaching Mars, Says Poll

By Kristin Houser

The European Space Agency just tested out a device that's meant to assist in astronaut rescue missions on the surface of the Moon.

This Bizarre Device Will Help Rescue Injured Astronauts on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is targeting November 15th as a tentative date to launch its astronaut-ferrying Crew Dragon spacecraft to the ISS according to NASA.

NASA Sets Tentative Date For Launching Astronauts In SpaceX Ship

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has funded a project to develop robots capable of autonomously exploring and imaging Moon pits to determine their potential usefulness.

NASA Funds $2M Study to See if We Could Live in Moon Pits

By Kristin Houser

Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin just fired up its gigantic Moon lander engine for the first time at NSA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Blue Origin Test Fires Moon Lander Engine For the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new 82 page investigation by NASA's Office of Inspector General, hackers got away with 500 megabytes of mission critical data.

Hackers Stole Data from NASA’s Robotics Lab

By Victor Tangermann

A new report fings that NASA has been downplaying the expected costs of its missions while rewarding contractors despite preventable delays

Gov. Watchdog: NASA Hid True Cost of Boeing Moon Rocket

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just zipped really close to tiny asteroid Bennu to snap an incredibly detailed image.

NASA Photographs Asteroid That Could Smash Into Earth in 22nd Century

By Victor Tangermann

NASA head Jim Bridenstine announced that the SpaceX capsule explosion earlier this year has delayed the space agency's plans for crewed missions.

NASA Head: “No Doubt” SpaceX Explosion Delayed Flight Program

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Discovers Brand-New Crater on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told CNN Business that NASA will need "$20 to $30 billion" over a span of five years to return to the Moon by 2024.

NASA Budget Billions Short to Return Americans to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Orbiter Spots “Star Trek” Starfleet Insignia on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The discovery of a huge mass of dense material near the Moon's South Pole is puzzling scientists across the globe. Where did it come from?

Scientists Are Baffled by “Huge Mass” Under the Moon’s Surface

By Victor Tangermann

A new NASA study reveals why the Milky Way's black hole is so tranquil: a powerful and unique magnetic field is holding it at bay.

Here’s What’s Keeping the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole at Bay

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just moved to the next phase of its Psyche mission. Now the spacecraft that will visit the distant asteroid is undergoing final design changes.

NASA Is Preparing to Explore an All-Metal Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski