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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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Catastrophic floods helped shape the unique landscape on Mars
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Catastrophic floods helped shape the unique landscape on Mars

By Kate Baggaley

a nose smelling the stars (illustration)
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What does space smell like?

By Lizzie Schiffman

A photo of the planet Jupiter.
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is whirling faster than ever

By Hannah Seo

A top-looking-down photo of a rocket with the blue NASA logo.
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With Landsat 9, NASA can now photograph the entire Earth every 8 days

By Hannah Seo

An extremely wide-angle photo of a red, dusty surface, with a grey rock with two holes drilled into it.
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First Martian rock samples from Perseverance edge closer to settling water question

By Leto Sapunar

a rocket takes off
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The COVID oxygen shortage is delaying NASA rockets

By Shira Feder

You’ve Probably Been Reading The Wrong Horoscope
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You’ve Probably Been Reading The Wrong Horoscope

By Michael Koziol

Jeff Bezos and his brother
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Jeff Bezos is suing NASA. Here’s why.

By Shira Feder

A grayish orange plain of rocky terrain on Mars.
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After a few hiccups, NASA’s Perseverance begins its main missions on Mars

By Leto Sapunar

A yellow sponge-looking blob in a petri dish.
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NASA just sent one of the world’s smartest slimes to space

By Hannah Seo

Sorry, there’s probably no water under the South Pole of Mars
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Sorry, there’s probably no water under the South Pole of Mars

By Leto Sapunar

A trio of galaxies swirl around each other.
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See galactic triplets play tug-of-war in Hubble’s latest snapshot

By Erin Fennessy

Polaris lunar rover replica at the US Space and Rocket Center
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Polaris built a lunar rover replica that can drive 60 miles per hour here on Earth

By Stan Horaczek

The Hubble Space Telescope, with its yellow solar panels featured prominently.
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Hubble spied water vapor on our solar system’s largest moon

By Hannah Seo

A blue-colored cliff on Mars.
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Marsquakes reveal the red planet is way more radioactive than we thought

By Leto Sapunar

A black and white, side-by-side photo of galaxies. On the left, a pair of interacting galaxies. On the right, an usual three-armed spiral galaxy.
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With its latest fix, Hubble proves to be the telescope that just won’t quit

By Hannah Seo

A Brief History of the Apollo Hoax
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A Brief History of the Apollo Hoax

By Jason Daley

The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally Take Astronauts To Mars
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The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally Take Astronauts To Mars

By Sam Howe Verhovek

Who Killed The Deep Space Climate Observatory?
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Who Killed The Deep Space Climate Observatory?

By Bill Donahue

I Tried Really Hard Not To Contaminate NASA’s Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft
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I Tried Really Hard Not To Contaminate NASA’s Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft

By Robin Seemangal

A close-up of juvenile Hawaiian bobtail squid.
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Dozens of baby squid are orbiting our planet right now

By Hannah Seo

Meteors May Have Brought Vitamin B To Earth
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Meteors May Have Brought Vitamin B To Earth

By Emily Gertz

man sitting in an airplane seat under linear acceleration
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Bodies In Motion: Exploring the Human Limits of Future Travel

By Jacob Ward

The Mars Jezero crater
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Life could be hiding deep under Mars

By Leto Sapunar

medical exercise
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What Happens If You Have A Heart Attack In Space?

By Rose Pastore

Space Shuttle Era
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The Space Shuttle Era’s Best Images

By Josh Hrala

GRAIL
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NASA’s Twin Orbiters Will Crash Into The Moon On Monday

By Rebecca Boyle

The Man Who Fixed Hubble
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The Man Who Fixed Hubble

By Shannon Stirone

"Mars spiders," formations caused by underground carbon dioxide fizzing to the surface in springtine.
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Scientists brought ‘Mars spiders’ to Earth—here’s how

By Hannah Seo

A fissure in the Cerberus Fossae formation on Mars.
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Mars may have had recent volcanic eruptions—which is great news for finding life

By Leto Sapunar

Earth from space
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NASA Is Sending Some Lucky Yeast Into Radiation-Filled Deep Space

By Shannon Stirone

Asteroid Bennu floating in black space.
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Megapixels: Watch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zoom in on its asteroid target

By Jillian Mock

A model of the next Interstellar Probe.
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This new space probe will go farther and faster than any before, gathering data for generations

By Charlie Wood

An artist's illustration depicting Voyager 1 in interstellar space
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How the most distant object ever made by humans is spending its dying days

By Rahul Rao

astronaut on spacewalk
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Ask Us Anything: What happens to your body when you die in space?

By Shannon Stirone

An illustration of the Mars Perseverance rover in the background and the Ingenuity helicopter in flight in the foreground.
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Ingenuity flew on Mars. Now NASA will push it to the brink of destruction.

By Charlie Wood

exploring moon caves
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We could live in caves on the moon. What would that be like?

By Rahul Rao

The METL bike tire on a bike with the sky in the background
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These airless bike tires rely on a metal alloy designed for NASA rovers

By Stan Horaczek

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How scientists colorize Hubble’s deep space photographs

By Jeanette D. Moses

A brief history of spacewalks
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A brief history of spacewalks

By Jason Lederman

The NASA STS-39 shuttle crew in orange astronaut suits on a space backdrop
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What did ’90s NASA astronauts pack for space?

By Scott Murdock/Task & Purpose

Perseverance rover SHERLOC
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Was there ever life on Mars? Perseverance’s SHERLOC laser sniffs for microscopic clues

By Charlie Wood

PXLR, Perseverance Mars rover camera instrument
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Perseverance’s giant ‘hand lens’ will scour Mars for signs of ancient life

By Charlie Wood

The MOXIE instrument before it was lowered into NASA's Perseverance Rover, which is currently settled on the surface of Mars.
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With MOXIE, Perseverance will try to make oxygen on Mars

By Charlie Wood

Mars' surface, in high-resolution and color, as captured by the Hazcams on NASA's Perseverance rover.
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See Mars through Perseverance’s eyes

By Rahul Rao

mars image
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11 eye-opening images from NASA’s Mars missions

By Hannah Seo

An artist's interpretation of Perseverance, NASA's newest Mars rover, parachuting down from orbit.
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Watch the Perseverance rover complete its dramatic landing on Mars

By Charlie Wood

An overhead view of Mars featuring peculiar dark streaks.
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Mars’s mascara-like streaks may be caused by slush and landslides

By Charlie Wood

Masha Krasnova-Shavaeva illustration
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How NASA kept its Mars rovers alive long past their expiration dates

By Charlie Wood

An artist's impression of the Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars.
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NASA’s Mars helicopter may soon be the first to fly on another planet

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Interacting galaxies seen among stars through a telescope
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Behold six galactic collisions, masterfully captured by Hubble

By Jessica Boddy

A close-up view of Tithonium Chasma, which is feature of Valles Marineris, the solar system's largest canyon.
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Peer inside the solar system’s largest canyon

By Jessica Boddy

The Kepler supernova was spotted in 1604. Four centuries later, material from the explosion is still expanding outward at more than 20 million miles per hour.
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Stars are dying all across the galaxy—why don’t we see them?

By Charlie Wood

This image of Caldwell 45, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, provides a larger view, showing more of the galaxy. The bluish color swirling around the galaxy’s center indicates the presence of young, hot stars in Caldwell 45’s spiral arms.
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Celestial objects you can spot from your backyard

By Jessica Boddy

Artist's impression of flare from our neighboring star Proxima Centauri ejecting material onto a nearby planet.
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Violent space weather could limit life on nearby exoplanets

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Arecibo’s disk suffered damage in November, before the suspended receiver collapsed completely in December.
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The Arecibo Observatory collapsed this week. What now?

By Charlie Wood

We still don’t really know what’s inside the sun—but that could change very soon
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We still don’t really know what’s inside the sun—but that could change very soon

By Charlie Wood

Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Kopra on a Dec. 21, 2015 spacewalk.
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Spaceflight affects the human body in two major, peculiar ways

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

The Crew-1 crew. From left to right, NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
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SpaceX and NASA officially flew people into space. What’s next?

By Charlie Wood

An artist's representation of the kilonova spotted by telescopes like Hubble. Kilonovas are as much as 1,000 times brighter than typical novas.
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This ‘kilonova’ shines so bright, it defies the odds

By Jessica Boddy

Jezero Crater, the destination of the Perseverance rover, is one of many sites on Mars where ancient water flowed, suggesting that the planet once had a thicker atmosphere.
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Mars died billions of years ago, and its guts are still spilling into space

By Charlie Wood

In this microscopic image, Sphingomonas desiccabilis is growing on basalt.
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These rock-eating microbes could help us settle the Moon and Mars

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

The moon is in line to get LTE.
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The moon will soon have cell service

By Charlie Wood

a panoramic of the milky way
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Meet the disk-shaped halo of hot gas you currently live in

By Kate Baggaley