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December 30, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmNASA’s New Chief Just Put a Fresh Twist on the Texas Space Shuttle SagaNASA’s new boss Jared…

Just nine months since its launch, NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a jaw-dropping map of the cosmos unlike any we have seen before.Spectro-Photometer for the…

On Wednesday U.S. senators told President Donald Trump’s pick to lead NASA that the agency must beat China back to the moon. The uncertain future of…

November 19, 20252 min readNASA’s Latest Images Bring Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Into ViewNASA spacecraft across the inner solar system captured new views of Comet 3I/ATLAS—the third…

Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that the U.S. must win a race back to the moon with China, NASA looks increasingly unlikely to succeed, experts say.…

Produced by Nick Donofrio, Gabriel Gianordoli, Maridelis Morales Rosado, Andrew Sondern and Rebecca Thomas.Images: Pan Plates AS12-47-6982 to 7006 (assembled) via NASA; Pan Plates AS12-46-6836 to…

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace…

For astronomers studying dark matter, the Bullet Cluster is one of the greatest laboratories in the universe.It was discovered almost by accident, a blip of x-rays…

September 10, 20252 min readYour Name Could Orbit the Moon with NASA’s Artemis IIThe public can submit names to travel along with four astronauts on an…

Marsquakes, Vaccine Politics and Mammoth MicrobiomesA common nasal spray shows promise in reducing COVID risk, but vaccine access remains tangled in policy in the U.S.By Rachel…