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As the dust settled following SpaceX’s brief, explosive test launch of Starship in April, both the company and the Federal ...

Nearly one year ago, NASA flung the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour. It was ...

And nations should avoid cluttering those spots with mechanical detritus, which could complicate future missions. Like campers heading into the ...

When Suzanne Dodd’s team transmitted a routine command to Voyager 2 on July 21, the unthinkable happened: They accidentally sent ...

With the Mars simulation, Haney suggests that NASA should watch the crew for danger signs, like symptoms of depression, heightened ...

In June a four-person crew will enter a hangar at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and spend one ...

A boxy, 7.5-foot-tall spacecraft is making its final approach to the moon, where it will make history—if it touches down ...

First-time orbital flights can be challenging and often fail, like Relativity Space’s 3D-printed rocket, which launched in March and flew until ...

In the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and fallacies, like the idea ...

Tempo will also be able to track variations in pollution at the neighborhood scale. Lefer foresees this being especially useful ...