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The latest on the US space agency's crafts, missions, and discoveries—from low-Earth orbit to deep space.

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The White House is calling for Space Traffic Control
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The White House is calling for Space Traffic Control

By Mary Beth Griggs

NASA is learning the best way to grow food in space
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NASA is learning the best way to grow food in space

By Sarah Scoles

NASA is sending a spacecraft to investigate the ‘bubble’ that protects our solar system
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NASA is sending a spacecraft to investigate the ‘bubble’ that protects our solar system

By Mary Beth Griggs

Exclusive: Watch a new video of lightning strikes seen from space
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Exclusive: Watch a new video of lightning strikes seen from space

By Mary Beth Griggs

NASA is about to create the coldest spot in the known universe
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NASA is about to create the coldest spot in the known universe

By Mary Beth Griggs

NASA just added a tiny autonomous helicopter to its next Mars mission
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NASA just added a tiny autonomous helicopter to its next Mars mission

By Stefanie Waldek

asteroid collision
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Scientists literally brought out the big gun to study the origins of water

By Mary Beth Griggs

spatial visualization
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Can you pass the test NASA gave potential astronauts in 1958?

By Eleanor Cummins

NASA’s new weather satellite will show us wildfires and storms in insane detail
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NASA’s new weather satellite will show us wildfires and storms in insane detail

By Mary Beth Griggs

opportunity on Mars
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The Little Rover That Could

By Mary Beth Griggs

Alpha Centauri And Beta Centauri
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Five questions about NASA’s plans to visit an alien world in 2069

By Rachel Feltman

The President’s plan to revisit the moon raises lots of questions—here are the answers
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The President’s plan to revisit the moon raises lots of questions—here are the answers

By Rachel Feltman and Sara Chodosh

Scientists are trying to figure out which bacteria have colonized our space station
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Scientists are trying to figure out which bacteria have colonized our space station

By Sara Chodosh

Voyager 1 just fired up some thrusters for the first time in 37 years
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Voyager 1 just fired up some thrusters for the first time in 37 years

By Rachel Feltman

satellites in orbit
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You’d be surprised how often space junk falls out of the sky

By Sara Chodosh

crater moon
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We could actually learn a lot by going back to the Moon

By Mary Beth Griggs

60 years ago, Sputnik shocked the world and started the space race
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60 years ago, Sputnik shocked the world and started the space race

By Mary Beth Griggs

Saturn
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Glance through Cassini’s last glimpses of the Saturn system

By Mary Beth Griggs

A timeline of Cassini’s plunge of fiery doom on Friday
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A timeline of Cassini’s plunge of fiery doom on Friday

By Mary Beth Griggs

You shouldn’t be too worried about the huge asteroid that’s about to fly right past us
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You shouldn’t be too worried about the huge asteroid that’s about to fly right past us

By Sara Chodosh

spaceX launch
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NASA is about to find out if a supercomputer can survive a year in space

By Rob Verger

NASA is hiring a Planetary Protection Officer, but it’s not Earth that needs saving
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NASA is hiring a Planetary Protection Officer, but it’s not Earth that needs saving

By Sara Chodosh

Four ways anyone can be a scientist during the solar eclipse
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Four ways anyone can be a scientist during the solar eclipse

By Aparna Nathan

artificial cloud made from barium
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NASA will try to create glowing rainbow clouds, and you can watch

By Sarah Fecht

Sorry, but Anonymous has no evidence that NASA has found alien life
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Sorry, but Anonymous has no evidence that NASA has found alien life

By Sarah Fecht

pretty saturn
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52 of Cassini’s most beautiful postcards from the outer solar system

By Sarah Fecht

icebridge
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19 of the coolest images from NASA’s Operation IceBridge

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

saturn
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Listen to the surprisingly empty gap between Saturn and its rings

By Rachel Feltman

Why NASA is running out of spacesuits
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Why NASA is running out of spacesuits

By Sarah Fecht

nasa cassini saturn
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A spacecraft just flew between Saturn and its rings for the first time ever—and there are pictures

By Rachel Feltman

Bricks made from fake Martian soil are surprisingly strong
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Bricks made from fake Martian soil are surprisingly strong

By Sarah Fecht

Mars' atmosphere
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What it would actually take to get to Mars by 2020

By Sarah Fecht

The 5 most amazing things we’ve learned from NASA’s Cassini mission
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The 5 most amazing things we’ve learned from NASA’s Cassini mission

By Sarah Fecht

VIIRS view of Europe
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These new photos of Earth lit up at night are actually pretty useful

By Sara Chodosh

Curiosity Rover takes a self portrait
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The Curiosity Mars rover’s wheels are starting to break

By Rachel Feltman

Chuck Berry is gone, but his music is still flying through the cosmos
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Chuck Berry is gone, but his music is still flying through the cosmos

By Mark D. Kaufman

Aliens are probably out there, according to Winston Churchill
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Aliens are probably out there, according to Winston Churchill

By Mark D. Kaufman

NASA wants to put astronauts on the very first launch of its new mega-rocket
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NASA wants to put astronauts on the very first launch of its new mega-rocket

By Sarah Fecht

Active Regions Galore
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How NASA is planning to touch the sun

By Ian Graber-Stiehl

NASA has an unusually bold plan to find life on Europa
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NASA has an unusually bold plan to find life on Europa

By Sarah Fecht

NASA bets the farm on the long-term viability of space agriculture
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NASA bets the farm on the long-term viability of space agriculture

By Eleanor Cummins

If Earth’s orbit is so crowded, why don’t we see space junk in photos of the Earth?
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If Earth’s orbit is so crowded, why don’t we see space junk in photos of the Earth?

By Mary Beth Griggs

What can NASA’s twin study results actually tell us?
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What can NASA’s twin study results actually tell us?

By Claire Maldarelli

The hibernation science in ‘Passengers’ is not far from reality
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The hibernation science in ‘Passengers’ is not far from reality

By Jason Lederman

Mars Explorers Wanted Poster
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All the NASA space gifs you never knew you needed

By Rachel Feltman

This week’s supermoon is going to be more super than usual (we promise)
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This week’s supermoon is going to be more super than usual (we promise)

By Samantha Cole

What’s Inside Proxima Centauri B, Our Nearest Exoplanet Neighbor
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What’s Inside Proxima Centauri B, Our Nearest Exoplanet Neighbor

By Charles Q. Choi

You Could Own This Freaky NASA Robot From The 1960s
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You Could Own This Freaky NASA Robot From The 1960s

By Sarah Fecht

OSIRIS-REx Liftoff: Perfectly Executed, On Its Way To An Asteroid
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OSIRIS-REx Liftoff: Perfectly Executed, On Its Way To An Asteroid

By Samantha Cole

Jim Harris holding the final iteration of the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism.
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A Plastic Cup And A Shop Vacuum Could Rewrite The History Of The Solar System

By Samantha Cole

NASA’s Mission To Sample A Killer Asteroid Launches In September
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NASA’s Mission To Sample A Killer Asteroid Launches In September

By Sarah Fecht

hillary clinton DNC speech
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The Most Controversial Line In Hillary Clinton’s Acceptance Speech Was About Science

By Samantha Cole

base camp at mars
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How Lockheed Martin Plans To Set Up A Base Camp In Mars’ Orbit

By Sarah Fecht

How John Glenn Landed After Becoming The First American To Orbit The Earth
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How John Glenn Landed After Becoming The First American To Orbit The Earth

By Popular Science, June 1962, by Wesley S. Griswold

The Dizzying View Inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building
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The Dizzying View Inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building

By Samantha Cole

Future Engineers Challenge winners
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Meet The Winners Of Star Trek And NASA’s Student 3D Printing Challenge

By Jason Lederman

We Took A Virtual Walk On The Martian Surface
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We Took A Virtual Walk On The Martian Surface

By Shannon Stirone

Concept drawing of the Mars Base Camp
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Lockheed Martin Wants To Send Humans To Mars In 12 Years

By Sarah Fecht

Mars500 crew
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What’s It Like To Go To Mars And Back?

By Sarah Fecht

NASA Invests In Suspended Animation, Growable Space Habitats, And More
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NASA Invests In Suspended Animation, Growable Space Habitats, And More

By Sarah Fecht

Window Damage
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Tiny Debris Chipped A Window On The Space Station

By Mary Beth Griggs

Shadows at Endeavour Crater
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The Best Pictures Of Mars

By Josh Hrala

The 12 craziest Hubble pictures of all time
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The 12 craziest Hubble pictures of all time

By Josh Hrala

Astronaut Butch Wilmore holds a container that was 3D printed on the International Space Station.
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NASA And Star Trek Have Teamed Up To Create The Next Generation of Makers

By Jason Lederman