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Half of NASA's astronaut class of 2013 are women.

Half of NASA’s Newest Astronaut Class Are Women

38 years after NASA hired its first female astronauts, four women are training to go to Mars

January 18, 2016

An artist's rendition of Juno in orbit around Jupiter. The craft is powered entirely by the sun's rays.

Juno Is Now Humanity’s Furthest-Flung Solar-Powered Craft

Armed with over 18,000 solar cells, the Jupiter orbiter is taking solar-fueled space exploration to new lengths

January 15, 2016

Adam Steltzner celebrates the successful landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars on August 5, 2012.

What Landing a Rover on Mars Teaches You About Leadership and Teamwork

In his new book, NASA engineer Adam Steltzner shares his insights on how to inspire people to make the impossible possible

January 11, 2016

These cracks hint at subsurface seas.

Does Icy Pluto Have a Hidden Ocean? New Horizons Offers New Clues

Data from the NASA probe are helping to build a solid case for a liquid ocean inside the tiny, distant world

January 7, 2016

Get Excited for This Year’s Space-Themed Stamps

The Postal Service honors NASA’s New Horizons Mission and Star Trek’s premiere

January 4, 2016

The back shell of NASA’s InSight spacecraft being lowered onto the lander, last July, in preparation for the mission.

Here’s Why NASA Had to Postpone a 2016 Mission to Mars

A leak in a key instrument on board the InSight lander means the team will have to wait for the next launch window in 2018

December 23, 2015

Watch a NASA Scientist School the Empire on How to Build a Better Death Star

Darth Vader could have saved a few dollars by building it around an asteroid

December 17, 2015

An artist's rendition of what the Juno spacecraft will look like as it flies by Jupiter

NASA Needs Your Help Snapping and Processing Images of Jupiter

The public will help direct JunoCam as it twirls past Jupiter next July

December 7, 2015

Screenshot from "Aspiring Reporter Interviews Bolden about NASA's Journey to Mars"

A Nine-Year-Old Aspiring Journalist’s Heartwarming Connection with NASA

A popular photography blog helped one kid interview NASA administrator Charles Bolden

November 25, 2015

This Visualization of the World’s Carbon Emissions Is Chillingly Beautiful

A NASA simulation shows how carbon dioxide moves

November 24, 2015

Document Deep Dive

How NASA’s Flight Plan Described the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

A second-by-second guide to the historic mission

November 24, 2015

The Apollo 17 Saturn V rocket, the last human flight to the moon, on its launch pad at dusk on November 21, 1972

Help Save the Booster that Sent Apollo Spacecrafts to the Moon

A Kickstarter campaign hopest to save the only remaining booster rocket from the Apollo launches

November 12, 2015

Left: Alan Stern holds a 2005 Hubble image of the Pluto system on January 19, 2006, two hours after the successful launch of the New Horizons probe. Right: A triumphant Stern holds a full-frame image of Pluto, taken just hours before the New Horizons probe reached its closest point to Pluto.

American Ingenuity Awards

How Alan Stern Brought Pluto to Earth

The scientist behind NASA’s New Horizons mission gave cheering earthlings their first close-up view of the dwarf planet

November 12, 2015

The Antares Spacecraft Explosion in Horrifyingly Beautiful Detail

New photos show the grim (yet beautiful) blast

November 6, 2015

NASA is Hiring Astronauts for Future Deep Space Missions

Do you want to head to Mars?

November 6, 2015

Watch 30 Minutes of Mesmerizing, Ultra-HD Sun

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory stares at the sun so you don’t have to

November 6, 2015

NASA is Helping Study These Massive Earthworks from Space

Could satellite photographs decipher the meaning behind Kazakhstan’s mysterious geometric designs?

November 2, 2015

Cameras captured snowy craters scattered across the moon's north side.

Stunning New Views of Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th-Largest Moon

A new flyby has revealed a spidery network of cracks crisscrossing its northern pole

October 19, 2015

High Definition Video of Jupiter Reveals New Weather in the Great Red Spot

Video portrait shows massive storm changing as it shrinks

October 15, 2015

Here’s how NASA Wants to get to Mars

NASA unveils roadmap to building a Mars colony

October 12, 2015

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