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NASA helped develop a new humanoid robot that could assist astronauts on future space missions, but they can also serve as "avatars."
Robotics

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to release a "mini-fridge size capsule" over the Utah desert this week.
NASA

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA and SpaceX test-fired a Raptor engine meant for a Moon mission from a cold start in order to simulate conditions in space.
SpaceX

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA has announced its first-ever UFO czar after initially declining to name him out of concerns for his safety. 
Future Society

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has spent more consecutive days in the Earth's orbit than any other NASA astronaut before him, at over 355 days.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted tantalizing evidence that an exoplanet some 120 light years away could be hosting life.
James Webb Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

Since landing on the planet back in 2021, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has generated enough oxygen for a small dog to breathe for 10 hours.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Nearly a year ago, NASA successfully smashed an asteroid for the first time — but now, the asteroid in question is behaving strangely. 
NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

When a reporter asked the director of JPL if she had ever seen or had knowledge of alien crafts, she laughed and said no.
NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA director of facilities Erik Weiser warned on Thursday that the space agency's facilities are in an "increasing state of decline."
NASA

By Frank Landymore

NASA's adorable new Moon rovers are lightweight and about the size of a carry-on — and as a video shows, they can get some sweet air, too.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has come across a fascinating hexagonal pattern in salt deposits that looks eerily familiar.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

If it were up to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, the US needs to get to the Moon before China since it might be unwilling to share resources.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA / Futurism
Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA was supposed to help OceanGate design key parts of the Titan submersible — but the agency really wants you to know that it didn't.
Advanced Transport

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin to test a nuclear-powered rocket in space by 2027, in hopes of using the system to power Mars missions.
Nuclear Fusion

By Frank Landymore

A power outage struck Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, temporarily cutting off comss with the International Space Station.
International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

While NASA keeps upping its budget on its Mars mission, Americans have quietly reported that their priorities don't exactly seem to align.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the aftermath of the space agency's DART battering ram that smashed into an asteroid last year.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered "diverse" traces of "preserved organic matter" in a Martian crater.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have created a breathtaking, three-dimensional visualization of a recent James Webb Space Telescope survey of ancient galaxies.
James Webb Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

After more than two months of radio silence, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has finally phoned home. And it's healthy.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier this month, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious donut-shaped rock. Experts are divided on what it could be.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Four individuals have agreed to be locked inside NASA's Mars simulator for just over a year. And they're being paid surprisingly little.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has crushed its previous record for turning the planet's thin atmosphere into a source of oxygen.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just locked four non-astronaut volunteers in a simulated Mars habitat, marking the beginning of the much-anticipated CHAPEA missions.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new NASA animation visualizes the ebb and flow of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions around the globe. It's not pretty.
NASA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has announced that astronauts on board the ISS are drinking water that is a whopping 98 percent recovered urine and sweat.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images
Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

The costs associated with NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission keep growing and growing by the billions, alarming officials.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope just got a close look at TRAPPIST-1 c, a rocky exoplanet located roughly 40 lightyears away.
James Webb Space Telescope

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Colorado-based aviation company Wilson Aerospace has filed a lawsuit, accusing Boeing of fraud and stealing their intellectual property.
Boeing

By Victor Tangermann

NASA researchers say Moon astronauts should consider that microbial life could survive in shadowed niches near the south pole.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is getting increasingly worried that SpaceX's Starship may not be ready for the space agency's return to the lunar surface in 2025.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Ever dreamed of sending a raunchy missive into outer space on the side of a NASA spacecraft? If the answer's yes, we have good news.
NASA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA chief Bill Nelson has Moon water on the mind — also, specifically, the idea that China might get to that precious Moon water first.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A crew of space tourists headed up to the ISS this week — and, once they arrived, had to learn how to go to the bathroom in zero gravity.
Off-World

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA plans to use a device that "can vigorously spin occupants like laundry churning in a washing machine" to train astronauts.
NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA officially awarded a Blue Origin-led team a $3.4 billion contract for its upcoming Artemis V mission to the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Gone are the good old days of homophobia and racism at NASA — and to some Republican senators, that's a problem. 
Future Society

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of NASA's gigantic science balloons developed a leak a mere day and a half into its flight, causing it to plummet into the Pacific Ocean.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has found what scientists suggest could be evidence of a raging, fast-moving river that once flowed on Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced it's intending to change the New Horizons mission's primary target from studying Kuiper Belt objects to heliophysics.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is slowly dying — but luckily, a couple of startups have a solution that may just be crazy enough to work.
NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn's moons.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of Russia's space corporation Roscosmos, doesn't believe NASA landed on the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has figured out a way  to extend the mission of its interstellar Voyager 2 probe by another three years.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil inside a vacuum chamber.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Artist and music producer Austin Richard "Post Malone" Post got a rare chance to talk to NASA astronauts currently stationed on board the ISS.
Off-World

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is locking four individuals inside a 1,700-square-foot Mars habitat analog for an entire year to see if they can get along.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

Nearly 21 years after it was launched, NASA's RHESSI satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere. Chances it'll hit you are apparently "low."
NASA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has turned its giant 6.2 million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) into a replica of the surface of the Moon to train astronauts.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese astronomer spotted green streaks of light passing over a cloudy sky, which, as it turns out, were shot out by NASA's ICESat-2 satellite.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

The facility will be used to monitor how humans handle living a year on Mars. A grueling experiment, but at least the volunteers will be able to game.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have long debated the source of ULXs, chalking their brightness up to optical illusions. A new study confirms that they're all that they appear.
NASA

By Frank Landymore

If you're sending humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, you better make sure your astronauts are safe — and look good while doing it.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

The new director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has spoken about her decision to be sworn in on a copy of "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan.
NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you look closely at the photo that accompanies NASA's press release about the new Goddard Center director, you'll see something curious and delightful.
NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a random Canadian astronaut going to the Moon with three Americans from NASA next year — and according to him, that's by design. 
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA just dropped its new graphics in the wake of its crew announcement for the Artemis II mission to the Moon and, reader, they're so lit. 
NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronaut chief Joe Acaba wanted to get three lucky astronauts all in the same meeting to tell them they were Moon-bound. Easier said than done.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA has announced the astronauts who will fly to the Moon during the Artemis II mission, the first humans to head to the Moon in more than 50 years.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA astronaut and current podcaster Clayton Anderson has been caught liking a spate of transphobic tweets.
NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai