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

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

By Kristin Houser

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

NASA Wants to Send a Sample Return Mission to Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA engineers have captured the first images of the interaction between shockwaves from a pair of flying supersonic aircraft — and they are stunning.

Advanced Transport

NASA’s Stunning Image: Supersonic Shockwaves Smashing Together

By Kristin Houser

On March 29, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will leave the ISS to embark on the world's first all-female spacewalk.

NASA Announces World’s First All-Female Spacewalk

By Kristin Houser

NASA’s InSight Mars Rover Runs Into Trouble Digging a Hole

NASA’s InSight Mars Rover Runs Into Trouble Digging a Hole

By Victor Tangermann

China Plans to Launch a Mars Rover Next Year

China Plans to Launch a Mars Rover Next Year

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's next-generation passenger spacecraft Crew Dragon has docked itself to a free dock on the International Space Station at 5:51 am EST this morning.

Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Dock Autonomously With the ISS

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX successfully launched its (uncrewed) Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 2:49 am EST this morning.

SpaceX Launches First U.S. Private Passenger Spacecraft to ISS

By Victor Tangermann

Canada agrees to invest C$150 million in the U.S.'s Lunar Gateway, becoming the nation's first international partner in the ambitious space program.

Canada Commits $150 Million to NASA’s Moon-Orbiting Space Station

By Kristin Houser

Meet “Ripley,” the Dummy SpaceX Is Sending to the Space Station

Meet “Ripley,” the Dummy SpaceX Is Sending to the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which touched down in 2014, experienced a "hiccup" while booting up last week. For now, it's back online.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Recovers After Serious Glitch

By Jon Christian

NASA and SpaceX decided to proceed with plans yesterday for the first ever test flight, dubbed Demo-1, of SpaceX's Crew Dragon passenger spacecraft.

NASA Clears SpaceX Crew Dragon’s First Test Flight

By Victor Tangermann

NASA commissioned SpaceX and Boeing to develop shuttles for crewed missions. Upcoming test flights may be delayed as NASA found several safety flaws.

NASA Warns SpaceX and Boeing About Safety Flaws in Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

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

NASA Lander Now Provides Daily Martian Weather Reports

By Jon Christian

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

An anthropologist is making the case that long space missions, like a crewed trip to Mars, would require crew members with senses of humor.

NASA Is Studying Whether a Mars Crew Would Need a Class Clown

By Jon Christian

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover's last words weren't literally that "my battery is low line," the reporter behind the viral tweet clarified.

The Dead Mars Rover Didn’t Actually Say That “My Battery” Thing

By Jon Christian

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.

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

By Jon Christian

Surveys of all the matter in the universe missed about a third of what was predicted by calculations. Scientists may have finally found the missing stash.

Scientists May Have Finally Found the Universe’s Missing Matter

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is Finally Ready to Say Goodbye to its Opportunity Rover

NASA is Finally Ready to Say Goodbye to its Opportunity Rover

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly announced Tuesday that he's running for Senate in Arizona — and positioned himself as a defender of science.

NASA Astronaut Runs for Senate, Warns Of “Retreat From Science”

By Jon Christian

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine published a bold essay outlining the space agency's plan to return astronauts to the Moon.

NASA Head: “This Time, When We Go to the Moon, We Will Stay.”

By Jon Christian

A new 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy shows a different structure than scientists expected. It turns out the outer disk is all warped out of shape.

The Milky Way is a Lot More Warped Than Scientists Thought

By Dan Robitzski

NASA administrator Thomas Zurbuchen argues that extraterrestrial life may be out there, given recent discoveries of off-world water and organic molecules.

NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

NSA's Curiosity rover just took a last selfie before leaving the Vera Rubin Ridge on the surface of Mars. Its next stop is a suspected dried-up lake bed.

NASA’s Rover Sends Home Captivating Selfie of Martian Landscape

By Victor Tangermann

Johns Hopkins University and NASA released the most high-resolution image of Ultima Thule yet, in all its dented and scarred glory.

New HD Photo of Ultima Thule Looks Like a Giant Beat Up BB-8

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Jon Christian

U.S. President Donald Trump offered NASA unlimited funding if it meant the agency could send a crewed mission to Mars by the end of his first term.

Trump Offered NASA an Unlimited Budget if It Sent Humans to Mars

By Jon Christian

A stylized picture of a 3D-printed heart like one NASA wants to print in space.

Here’s Why NASA Wants to 3D Print Human Hearts in Space

By Dan Robitzski

Later this year, NASA might decide to fund a Johns Hopkins University mission that would send a drone to Saturn's largest moon Titan.

A Team of Scientists Want to Land a Drone on Saturn’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

For the past three decades, NASA and Russia's Roscosmos have operated as equals. But now it seems that NASA may have outgrown its Russian counterpart.

Russia and America’s Long Space Partnership Could Soon Fall Apart

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA scientist just made animations showing how slow the speed of light is compared to the scale of the cosmos to explain why we haven't traveled far.

New NASA Animations Show How Slowly Light Travels Through Space

By Dan Robitzski

Watch The Most Distant Object Ever Observed Tumble Through Space

Watch The Most Distant Object Ever Observed Tumble Through Space

By Dan Robitzski

What happened next was weird, even by the standards of super-dense celestial objects from which not even light can escape: the black hole started to shrink.

A Black Hole Inhaled a Star. Then It Started to Shrink

By Jon Christian

A steam-powered spacecraft prototype funded by NASA has the potential to explore planets, asteroids, and other space objects indefinitely.

See the Steam-Powered Probe That Could Explore Space Forever

By Kristin Houser

Scientists working at the Hubble Telescope just pieced together a massive survey of the Triangulum Galaxy. Now they may be able to watch new stars from.

Ultra-Detailed New Image of Nearby Galaxy Shows Stars Being Born

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk: First Commercial Crew Test Will Be “Especially Dangerous”

Elon Musk: First Commercial Crew Test Will Be “Especially Dangerous”

By Victor Tangermann

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.

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

By Victor Tangermann

An upcoming NASA mission will test Earth's planetary defense against a killer asteroid by smashing a probe into a distant space rock.

NASA Scientist: Asteroid Deflection Mission Not Like “Armageddon”

By Jon Christian

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft has been cleared by NASA for full-scale production

NASA Clears “Dream Chaser” Space Cargo Plane For Full-Scale Production

The ongoing government shutdown means that 95 percent of NASA's workforce is home on furlough during New Horizons' historic flyby.

Gov Shutdown Means 95 Percent of NASA Employees Aren’t At Work

By Jon Christian

Scientists set off a massive explosion in the Nevada desert to test special earthquake-detecting balloons that could one day be deployed over Venus.

NASA Wants to Send Earthquake-Detecting Balloons to Venus

By Victor Tangermann

After whizzing past Pluto in July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is fast approaching Ultima Thule — an odd space rock 6.6 billion kilometers away.

New Horizons Will Fly Past the Most Distant Object We’ve Ever Visited

By Victor Tangermann

For the last 15 years, NASA and ESA scientists have found signs of methane in Mars' atmosphere. But a recent survey by an ESA orbiter didn't find any.

Scientists Thought Mars Was Covered in Methane. Now It’s Missing

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's InSight lander just successfully placed its seismometer five feet from itself onto the surface of Mars.

NASA’s Mars Lander Places Instrument to Listen for “Marsquakes”

By Victor Tangermann

Someone hacked NASA servers, potentially stealing the personal info of employees in the process, according to an internal memo.

Hackers Accessed NASA Servers Containing Employee Information

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Jon Christian

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

A new study from scientists at Stony Brook University found that moon dust particles could react with human cells — and potentially lead to cancer.

Breathing in Moon Dust Could be Even More Toxic Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

During the closest encounter we've ever had with the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe took an impressive picture of the solar corona.

Here’s the Closest Picture We’ve Ever Taken of the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft found evidence of "hydrated minerals" on the surface of Bennu, an asteroid millions of miles away.

A NASA Probe Just Found Evidence of Water on a Distant Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

Voyager 2 Just Entered Interstellar Space

Science & Energy

Voyager 2 Just Entered Interstellar Space

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from Caltech, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Honda say they've developed a new battery with extraordinary powers.

Science & Energy

A New Battery Could Store Ten Times the Power as Lithium-Ion

By Jon Christian

NASA's team at JPL just recorded the first sounds from the Martian surface ever to be heard back on Earth.

A World First: Listen to the Sounds of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Yes, a NASA Scientist Said Aliens May Have Visited Earth. But There’s Some Nuance

Science & Energy

Yes, a NASA Scientist Said Aliens May Have Visited Earth. But There’s Some Nuance

By Sarah Marquart

NASA's Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), a crucial tool for spotting asteroids on a collision course with Earth, hasn't been fully funded since 2006.

Retired Astronaut: NASA Left Earth Defenseless Against Asteroids

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at Bennu on Monday, a huge milestone in the agency's effort to return asteroid samples to Earth.

Science & Energy

NASA’s First-Ever Asteroid Return Mission Just Reached Its Target

By Kristin Houser

In its most recent annual report, Roscosmos blames SpaceX — which promises to shuttle astronauts to the ISS — for its declining fortunes.

Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Blames SpaceX For Its Woes

By Jon Christian

On Tuesday, NASA announced the nine companies it has contracted to help transport astronauts and cargo to the Moon within the next 12 years.

These 9 Companies Will Help NASA Return Humans to the Moon

By Kristin Houser

After a lot of trouble with backup gyroscopes on board, NASA's Hubble space telescope is back in action. And its newest snapshot is amazing.

Hubble Takes Another Incredible Picture After Gyroscope Failure

By Victor Tangermann

NASA and JPL have announced its InSight lander is officially collecting solar power on the Martian surface — completing yet another critical step.

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Fires up Solar Cells and Sends Selfie

By Victor Tangermann

The successful landing of NASA's InSight probe on Mars set the internet ablaze Monday afternoon. Here's what the world had to say about the mission.

The World Reacts to the Success of NASA’s InSight Mars Lander

By Kristin Houser