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The Rocket That Could Take Humans to Mars Has Been 50 Years in the Making

ByRahul Rao
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The Webb Telescope Finds Key Ingredient for Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa

ByKiona Smith
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Just Dropped Samples of Asteroid Bennu To Earth — Here’s Why They Are So Important

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A Giant Futuristic Starshade Could Help Astronomers Spot Earth-like Planets

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The Webb Telescope Can't Find Alien Life Until Researchers Agree On This Fundamental Component

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Inside NASA’s Historic OSIRIS-REx Mission To Bring A Chunk of An Asteroid Back To Earth

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NASA’s Sun-Kissing Mission Stuns Yet Again With Incredible New Footage

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On A Cosmic Scale, The Universe Is Quite Small — This Could Transform Our Understanding Of It

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A Strange, Old Asteroid Is Orbiting Our Sun — NASA’s New Psyche Mission Will Hunt For Its Origin

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Black Holes Could Be Hiding Out In Star Clusters Near Earth — Can We Find Them?

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Behold Supersonic Jets Spewing Out of a Baby Star’s Cocoon

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

NASA’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Report Is Finally Public — Here’s What It Shows

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Space

Saturn Is Entering Autumn — New Webb Telescope Images Reveal Its Foliage

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Space

The Webb Telescope Just Found Evidence Of An Alien World Covered By Water

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Sun's Absurdly Hot "Crown" Holds One of the Biggest Mysteries in Astronomy

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Uncovered Debris From A Star’s Catastrophic Explosion Could Finally Explain Why Stars Go Supernova

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

Webb Telescope Peers at an Enigmatic Object Astronomers Call “The Brick”

ByEvan Gough and Universe Today
Science

The Webb Telescope Peered Deep Inside a Nearby Supernova Remnant

ByBrian Koberlein and Universe Today
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Scientists Debunk the Most Advanced Space Tech We’ve Ever Seen in Star Wars

ByRahul Rao
Space

Look Up! A Newly Discovered Comet Could Be Visible to the Naked Eye This Week

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Hubble Peers Deep Into the Milky Way’s Heart in Stunning New Image

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
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Future Telescopes With Liquid Mirrors Could Peer at Alien Worlds in Detail

ByCharles Q. Choi
Science

Why Do Almost Half of Moon Missions Fail? Here’s Why Space Is Still So Risky

ByGail Iles and The Conversation
Science

Astronomers Are Watching a Black Hole Shred a Star to Pieces

ByBrian Koberlein and Universe Today
Space

Astronomers Discover a Weird Exoplanet Denser Than Steel

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Webb Telescope Captures an Incredible Look at the Whirlpool Galaxy

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Look! New Mars Images Hint at the Explosive History of an Iconic Landmark

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

Weird Blips in Exoplanet Observations Could Be Key to Finding Alien Life

ByMatt Williams and Universe Today
Space

You Need to See the Only Blue Moon of 2023 This Week

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

An Old Technology Could Reveal New Insights About Venus’ Core

ByAndy Tomaswick and Universe Today
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Why Is Everyone Trying to Land at the South Pole of the Moon?

ByKiona Smith
Space

Tiny But Mighty Eruptions on the Sun Could Explain a Big Space Mystery

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Astronomers Capture an Unprecedented Look at Neptune's Mysterious Dark Spot

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
space

India Just Became The First Country To Touch Down On the Moon's South Pole

ByKiona Smith
Space

Did NASA Just Enter A New Space Race? A Space Policy Expert Says It Would Be a Mistake

ByKiona Smith
Space

XRISM: Inside the Mission Set to View Black Holes and Exploding Stars Like Never Before

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Webb Space Telescope Just Peered Deep Into a Famous Nebula

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
space

Russia's First Moon Mission Since 1976 Just Crashed in a Major Setback

ByKiona Smith
Science

This Upcoming Telescope Could Be Our Most Powerful Tool for Finding Interstellar Objects

ByUniverse Today and Brian Koberlein
Space

Mars is Accelerating Its Spin, According to Data from a Defunct NASA Mission

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Neptune's Clouds Just Disappeared — and Astronomers Think They Know Why

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

NASA Rover Discovers Strange Hexagonal Patterns on Mars That Could Suggest Past Life

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

The Aftermath of Saturn's Giant Storms Lasts for Centuries

ByKiona Smith
Space

7 Photos That Perfectly Capture the Splendor of the Perseid Meteor Shower

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

Futuristic Paper Shows It’s Feasible to Build a Space Station on an Asteroid

ByAndy Tomaswick and Universe Today
Science

An Experiment Buried Deep Inside an Abandoned Gold Mine Could Solve a Huge Physics Mystery

ByHugh Lippincott and The Conversation
Science

Most Americans Don’t Think We Should Send Astronauts to Space — Will This Set Science Back?

ByThe Conversation, Mariel Borowitz and Teasel Muir-Harmony
Space

Is NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Our Entry Into a 21st-Century Space Race?

ByKiona Smith
Science

Astronomers are Watching a Planet Get its Atmosphere Blasted Away into Space

ByCAROLYN COLLINS PETERSEN and Universe Today