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NASA Prepares to Build Spacecraft Bound for a Metal Asteroid
The Psyche spacecraft, headed to an asteroid with the same name, will explore a metal world thought to be the leftover core of a destroyed planet
The First Group of Female Cosmonauts Were Trained to Conquer the Final Frontier
Two decades before the first American woman flew to space, a group of female cosmonauts trained in Star City of the Soviet Union
NASA's Study of Astronaut Twins Creates a Portrait of What a Year in Space Does to the Human Body
Wide-ranging research compares astronaut Scott Kelly to his earthbound twin brother, Mark
NASA Is Recruiting Women to Stay in Bed for Two Months
The gig pays around $18,500, but this is no dream job
There's a Dark and Stormy Vortex Brewing on Neptune
It is the sixth massive dark and stormy vortex found on the planet since 1989 and the only one astronomers have watched develop
NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk Due to Spacesuit Size Issues
NASA didn’t have two properly fitting and space-ready suits for both women
NASA Considers a Rover Mission to Go Cave Diving on the Moon
The deep caverns and pits that dot the lunar surface could hold clues to the moon's history and perhaps provide shelter for future human exploration
NASA Releases Opportunity Rover's Final Panorama Photograph
The little Mars explorer was hit by a duststorm in June, 2018 and never recovered, but it did send back 354 images from on its final days
How Much Does the Milky Way Weigh?
Measurements from the Gaia satellite and Hubble Space Telescope show our galaxy tips the scales at about 1.5 trillion solar masses
After a Successful Test Flight to the International Space Station, SpaceX Looks Ahead to Launching Astronauts
SpaceX's new Crew Dragon spacecraft could launch the first astronauts from U.S. soil in almost a decade
Mars May Have Had a Planet-Wide System of Underground Lakes
A study of 24 craters shows they experienced the simultaneous rise and fall of groundwater, suggesting they were interconnected at one time
With Opportunity Lost, NASA Confronts the Tenuous Future of Mars Exploration
Following decades of continuous flights to Mars, NASA is facing a shortage of missions
How NASA's Opportunity Rover Made Mars Part of Earth
After more than 15 years exploring the surface of Mars, the Opportunity rover has finally roved its last leg
Why the Nation of Georgia Wants to Make Wine on Mars
Researchers there are looking for grape varieties that can grow in Martian soil and survive high radiation and carbon monoxide
Planet Hunter TESS Is Already Spotting Hundreds of Crazy New Worlds
The first data from the space telescope's mission tallies more than 200 potential planets, including some just 50 light-years away
Remembering Nancy Grace Roman, Trailblazing Astronomer Known as ‘Mother of the Hubble’
She worked on and advocated for the space telescope, which changed our view of the universe
Ring in the New Year With NASA’s Most Distant Planetary Encounter in History
The New Horizons spacecraft is on final approach to the distant Kuiper Belt Object, Ultima Thule, and you can follow along live
Solar Probe Sends Back First Image and Data From the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe survived its first swoop around our star and will get even closer on its next two dozen trips
NASA Won’t Be Going ‘Back’ to the Moon—It Wants to Go Beyond It
At a 50th-anniversary event for Apollo 8, NASA’s Jim Bridenstine envisioned the moon’s potential for future space exploration
This Is How Much Starlight the Universe Has Produced
4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 photons over 13.7 billion years
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