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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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Why a Japanese spacecraft is firing a bullet into an asteroid
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Why a Japanese spacecraft is firing a bullet into an asteroid

By Neel V. Patel

Space changes your brain in bigger ways than we thought
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Space changes your brain in bigger ways than we thought

By Neel V. Patel

opportunity on Mars
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NASA’s latest effort to revive Opportunity will likely be the last

By Neel V. Patel

the far side of the moon
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Chang’e 4: why the moon’s far side looks red in new images

By David Rothery/The Conversation

a drawing of a spacecraft orbiting a small asteroid
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A NASA spacecraft is orbiting a tiny asteroid, and that’s a big deal

By Neel V. Patel

MU69 is the most distant object we’ve ever visited—and it looks like a space snowman
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MU69 is the most distant object we’ve ever visited—and it looks like a space snowman

By Neel V. Patel

a pixelated raw image on the left, and a sharpened image of a fuzzy oval on the right
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It’s official: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made history

By Rachel Feltman

a two-lobed rock floating in space
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Watch live as NASA spends New Year’s Eve exploring the mysterious outer regions of our solar system

By Rachel Feltman

Atlas V rocket launch
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This is why rocket launches always get delayed

By Neel V. Patel

The Parker Solar Probe is the single greatest innovation of 2018
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The Parker Solar Probe is the single greatest innovation of 2018

By Shannon Stirone

the planet mars
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NASA’s new Mars lander is in for ‘seven minutes of terror’ on Monday

By Shannon Stirone

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe just smashed two all-time records on its way to the sun
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe just smashed two all-time records on its way to the sun

By Charlie Wood

ryan gosling sitting in orange NASA uniform
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‘First Man’ is astonishingly accurate—here’s how NASA helped

By Stefanie Waldek

Russia’s rocket failure could leave the ISS without a crew
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Russia’s rocket failure could leave the ISS without a crew

By Mary Beth Griggs

two astronauts posing together
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Two astronauts just survived a ‘ballistic descent’ in a Russian rocket. Here’s everything we know.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Starry Night
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Oodles of virtual planets could help Google and NASA find actual aliens

By Mary Beth Griggs

blue flame emerging from machinery
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After 11 years, NASA’s asteroid-hopping spacecraft is running out of fuel

By Shannon Stirone

Could you qualify to be an astronaut?
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Could you qualify to be an astronaut?

By Sara Chodosh

This beautiful map of Earth’s atmosphere shows a world on fire
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This beautiful map of Earth’s atmosphere shows a world on fire

By Mary Beth Griggs

vents of white bubbles rising up from ocean floor
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NASA is preparing for future space missions by exploring underwater volcanoes off Hawaii

By Shannon Stirone

NASA’s sun-kissing spacecraft will go 250 times faster than a bullet when it hits its stride
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NASA’s sun-kissing spacecraft will go 250 times faster than a bullet when it hits its stride

By Mary Beth Griggs

Turning water into oxygen in zero gravity could mean easier trips to Mars
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Turning water into oxygen in zero gravity could mean easier trips to Mars

By Charles W. Dunnill/The Conversation

Meteorologists just found the coldest natural temperatures on the planet
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Meteorologists just found the coldest natural temperatures on the planet

By Lexi Krupp

Blame loose screws and ‘excessive optimism’ for the latest delay of NASA’s new space telescope
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Blame loose screws and ‘excessive optimism’ for the latest delay of NASA’s new space telescope

By Mary Beth Griggs

A Japanese spacecraft is zooming towards an asteroid shaped like a gemstone
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A Japanese spacecraft is zooming towards an asteroid shaped like a gemstone

By Mary Beth Griggs

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