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NASA just test fired its next-gen SLS lunar rocket booster – watch it here
The new booster is is scheduled to launch on the ninth Artemis lunar mission in the 2030s — but there's a chance that it will ...
Analysis: During a town hall NASA officials on stage looked like hostages
The four people at the helm of America's space agency held a town hall meeting with employees Wednesday, fielding questions ...
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NASA’s acting leadership planning new agency structure
NASA’s acting administrator expects to decide on a new “top-level” structure for NASA within weeks, but her successor may not ...
NASA's Curiosity rover discovers unusual 'boxwork' patterns on Mars linked to ancient waterways
The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...
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NASA's been pulling out of major astronomy meetings — and scientists are feeling the effects
"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...
No longer in the running to head NASA, Jared Isaacman turns focus to private space missions
Jared Isaacman may no longer have a shot at leading NASA, but that doesn't mean the billionaire and private astronaut is done ...
Four astronauts launch to the space station as NASA grapples with strange twist in leak issue
A Russia-controlled module on the space station has been leaking for years. Now, operators are working to figure out if the ...
NASA shares new views of our galactic neighbor, Andromeda
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...
Trump’s plan to kill dozens of NASA missions threatens U.S. space supremacy
NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...
NASA working to fix space station's NICER X-ray telescope
The NICER telescope developed a light leak in May 2023 when several thin thermal shields were damaged and let in sunlight ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captures images of what's believed to be newly discovered exoplanet
The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.
NASA’s Curiosity rover snaps pics of Mars ‘spiderwebs’ that indicate Red Planet’s watery past
The images and data being collected are already raising new questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of ...