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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 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

Glowing red sphere of light around a black hole in a NASA simulation
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What would happen if you fell into a black hole?

By Maria Paula Rubiano

an image of a galaxy
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How astronomers weigh the universe (and everything in it)

By Charlie Wood

the first image of a black hole
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This year, space stole all the headlines. Here are our favorite stories

By Charlie Wood

image of an airplane in front of a night sky
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Astronomers are struggling to study the stars without ruining Earth

By Charlie Wood

an image of stars in the center of hte milky way captured by ESO astronomers
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There’s an ancient starburst in the heart of the Milky Way

By Jessica Boddy

Enceladus imaged by Cassini
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Mysterious stripes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus may have a new origin story

By Charlie Wood

Illustration of a white dwarf eating a large planet.
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White dwarf star spotted nibbling on the atmosphere of a nearby icy planet

By Charlie Wood

illustration of a probe nearing the sun
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NASA’s solar probe reveals stunning results after swooping in close to the sun

By Charlie Wood

The 21-story DSS-14 dish in the Mojave Desert.
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What we learn from noisy signals from deep space

By Ryan Bradley

an infrared composite photo of titan
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The first global map of Titan reveals Earth-like features with a peculiar twist

By Charlie Wood

artists impression of a cigar shaped interstellar objecct
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‘Oumuamua isn’t aliens, but it may not be an asteroid either

By Charlie Wood

An illustration of the voyager spacecraft leaving the heliosphere
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Voyager 2′s journey beyond the solar system reveals new cosmic secrets

By Charlie Wood

This fluffy ball contains the story of the universe
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This fluffy ball contains the story of the universe

By Jess Romeo

NASA’s all-female spacewalk hints at a stronger, more gender-equal space program
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NASA’s all-female spacewalk hints at a stronger, more gender-equal space program

By Charlie Wood

Watch the first all-female spacewalk live
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Watch the first all-female spacewalk live

By Grace Wade

What astronaut diaries tell us about the perils of a mission to Mars
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What astronaut diaries tell us about the perils of a mission to Mars

By Sarah Scoles

Inside NASA’s plan to use Martian dirt to build houses on Mars
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Inside NASA’s plan to use Martian dirt to build houses on Mars

By Megan Gannon

Why we’re still obsessed with the watches astronauts wore to the moon
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Why we’re still obsessed with the watches astronauts wore to the moon

By Rob Verger

NASA’s plan to save its stuck Mars drill involves a robot with a shovel
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NASA’s plan to save its stuck Mars drill involves a robot with a shovel

By Charlie Wood

There are no shortcuts when you build a drone destined for Mars
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There are no shortcuts when you build a drone destined for Mars

By John Kennedy

Humans will definitely bring microbes to Mars—so we might as well bring our favorites
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Humans will definitely bring microbes to Mars—so we might as well bring our favorites

By Charlie Wood