NASA expands Moon Base science program with new research awards

The Moon Base initiative is NASA’s effort to establish infrastructure near the moon’s south pole that would support ...

NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope

NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will ...

NASA Says Blue Origin Is Closing In

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said investigators have "honed in already on a potential engine issue" as they examine the ...

You can spend a year in a simulated space habitat for NASA. Here's how

Think you have what it takes to live in a Mars and moon simulation for a year? NASA may want to select you as a volunteer.
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NASA's exoplanet mission accidentally discovers a world it was never meant to find

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

Here's the history of the huge US flag on NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building

The massive American flag on NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building is a patriotic icon, but its 1976 bicentennial origin story ...
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NASA marks America’s 250th birthday with ‘cosmic fireworks’ gallery

The space agency curated 13 images, ranging from 1990 to 2025, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on the Fourth of July.
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NASA's Hubble spots a stellar sparkler for the Fourth of July

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient ...

NASA Rushes to Rescue a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

Without a rescue mission, NASA’s Swift Observatory, which studies some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, will ...

Curiosity, Perseverance and Promise? NASA May Send a Mars Rover to the Moon.

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well ...

A 10-Year Sky Survey Begins Filming A 'Cosmic Movie,' Cyborg Cockroaches Go For A Dive And More Science Stories

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Daring rescue mission launches to save a 3,200-pound NASA observatory from an untimely end

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of ...