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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 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

The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx in the sky over a rendering of the ground on asteroid Bennu
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Watch live as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snags a chunk of asteroid

By Rachael Zisk

Artist's conception of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu.
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Local asteroid Bennu used to be filled with tiny rivers

By Charlie Wood

This rocket launched from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia) on Jan. 9, 2014, and also performed a resupply to the ISS—though it did not carry new toilet hardware.
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Watch live as NASA launches a $23 million toilet into space

By Rachael Zisk

The photo was taken by NASA’s camera EPIC, which takes pictures of the planet every two hour from NOAA’s satellite DSCOVR. You can spot the plume of wildfire smoke off the west coast of the United States.
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West Coast wildfire smoke is visible from outer space

By María Paula Rubiano A.

Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide.
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These black holes collided so hard they made space-time jiggle

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

The bacterial exposure experiment took place from 2015 to 2018 using the Exposed Facility located on the exterior of Kibo, the Japanese Experimental Module of the International Space Station.
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Clumps of bacteria could spread life between planets

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Artist’s impression of the thin stream of stars torn from the Phoenix globular cluster, wrapping around the Milky Way (left). Astronomers targeted bright red giant stars (artist’s impression, right) to measure the chemical composition of the disrupted Phoenix globular cluster.
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A local stellar graveyard could reveal our galaxy’s beginnings

By PopSci Editors

In this illustration, NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars.
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Watch NASA launch its next rover to Mars

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Astronauts having fun
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For astronauts in space, play is a way to stay safe

By Amy Schellenbaum

NGC 2275, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
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Hubble just captured this ‘fluffy’ galaxy in all its flocculent glory

By Candice Wang

On January 4, 2011, the Hinode satellite captured these breathtaking images of an annular solar eclipse.
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You may be able to spot a ‘ring of fire’ eclipse this weekend

By Candice Wang

These anaglyph images can be viewed with red-blue stereo glasses (or 3D glasses) to reveal the stars' distance from their backgrounds. On the left is Proxima Centauri and on the right is Wolf 359.
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NASA’s New Horizons is so far away, it’s seeing stars from new angles

By Candice Wang

An artists interpretation of a telescope receiving radio bursts from deep space.
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Astronomers spot repeating radio burst patterns from deep space

By Charlie Wood

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule sits atop its Falcon rocket, ready to launch.
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NASA and SpaceX pulled off their first rocket launch. Watch every second of it here.

By Charlie Wood

Jerrie Cobb and Mercury
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A brief history of menstruating in space

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Earth’s atmosphere
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Wacky weather punched a new hole in the ozone—and it could happen again

By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media

space robot
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This little NASA rover can conquer sand and steep hills

By Kate Baggaley

An artist's interpretation of what a ninth planet could look like.
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Planet Nine might not be a planet at all

By Charlie Wood

jupiter
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Jupiter has a spooky new look in this sharp infrared photo

By Claire Maldarelli

NASA TTBW
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NASA’s weird wing design could lead to futuristic, fuel-efficient airplanes

By Rob Verger

Two starts orbiting a black hole, as portrayed by an illustrator
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Astronomers just found the closest black hole to Earth

By Charlie Wood

An X-ray and optical composite image of a detonating star.
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Ancient supernovas may have pierced moon rocks with star shrapnel

By Charlie Wood

Hubble zooms in for an up-close look at star assembly in one of the galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.
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The Hubble Space Telescope just turned 30, and it’s working better than ever

By Charlie Wood

a crater on mars
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Will asteroids wreak havoc on future Mars settlers?

By JoAnna Wendel

A rendering of the light streaming around a black hole.
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Last year, we finally photographed a black hole. Now what?

By Charlie Wood

The robotic scoop-arm pins “the mole” against the side of its hole in an attempt to get it moving.
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At long last, NASA’s probe finally digs in on Mars

By Charlie Wood

A methane and ethane lake on Titan's surface.
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If life exists on Titan, it’s even weirder than we thought

By Charlie Wood

Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Kopra on a Dec. 21, 2015 spacewalk.
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NASA’s now taking astronaut applications. Do you have the right stuff?

By Molly Glick

a lander on mars illustration
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NASA has officially detected ‘marsquakes’ on the Red Planet

By Charlie Wood

Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1980
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Katherine Johnson, whose calculations enabled the first moonwalk, dies at 101 

By Molly Glick

artists impression of a polluted white dwarf star
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Asteroids go to pieces when their host star dies

By Charlie Wood

Two stars colliding and making a colorful cloud of gas
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Astronomers caught a star-on-star smack down

By Charlie Wood

A robotic arm putting together an antenna in space
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NASA’s plan to build stuff in space just took its first step

By Charlie Wood

A closeup image of the sun's surface
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These close-up photos of the sun could help us forecast space weather

By Charlie Wood

solar orbiter illustration in front of the sun
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This new solar orbiter will peek at some of the sun’s most secretive spots

By Charlie Wood

spacex crew dragon capsule
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SpaceX saves mannequins from fireball. Next up, astronauts.

By Charlie Wood

galaxy illustration of weird orbiting objects
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There’s a bizarre group of shapeshifting objects at the center of the Milky Way

By Charlie Wood

egg nebula
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Researchers trace galactic history in ancient grains of alien sand

By Charlie Wood

illustration of bubbles of clear space around stars
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Young galaxies transformed the early universe by blowing bubbles

By Charlie Wood

artist's interpretation of the milky way with radcliffe wave
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The biggest gaseous structure in our galaxy is filled with baby star factories

By Charlie Wood

an image of the crab nebula
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NASA’s top observatories teamed up to capture an imploding star in captivating 3D

By Jessica Boddy

an image of the helix nebula
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Our newest alien comet may have been born out of a dying star’s vomit

By Charlie Wood

WASP-12b exoplanet
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This pitch-black exoplanet is spiraling toward its doom

By Charlie Wood