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October 14, 20254 min readThe U.S. Won’t Win the New Space Race by Defunding NASAThe U.S. wants to remain a superpower in space. It can’t without…

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred…

new video loaded: NASA Introduces New Astronaut CandidatestranscriptBacktranscriptNASA Introduces New Astronaut CandidatesNASA announced 10 new candidates to begin training as astronauts as part of a plan…

September 19, 20253 min readAstronomers’ Exoplanet Haul Tops 6,000 Alien WorldsIt’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally showsBy Sarah Lewin Frasier edited by Clara MoskowitzScientists…

It sounds like the premise of a new reality show: take four strangers, isolate them in a 3D-printed Martian habitat for more than a year, and…

Skywatchers at Nasa have discounted a Harvard astronomer’s hypothesis that a rare interstellar object hurtling through our solar system is a relic from a civilization in…

Nasa has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programs, underscoring the intensifying space race between the the US and China.The policy shift…

As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time…

James “Jim” Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was…

Actions to NASA OICS: • • . • Within 30 days of this directive, the Associate Administrator (AA) for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD)…