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OSIRIS-REx flew hundreds of millions of miles to do something NASA had never done: bring a piece of an asteroid home. The target was...
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OSIRIS-REx flew hundreds of millions of miles to do something NASA had never done: bring a piece of an asteroid home. The target was...
Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous flight ever...
Earth’s strongest hurricanes last days and peak near 200 mph. Jupiter’s giant anticyclone doubles that speed, spans more than our planet and draws its...
On May 15, 2026, NASA's Psyche spacecraft skimmed past Mars and came away a thousand miles per hour faster without burning a drop of...
Six minutes after separating from its upper stage, China’s Long March 10B descended toward a recovery ship and caught four steel cables with hooks...
Just over four light-years away, the Alpha Centauri system holds the closest worlds beyond our own that might support life. One, Proxima Centauri b,...
On November 18, 2026, Voyager 1 will cross a milestone no machine has ever reached: it will sit a full light-day from Earth. From...
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent 21 years as astronomy's first responder, swinging toward exploding stars faster than any other telescope. Now it...
NASA receives 12,000 to 18,000 applications in a typical astronaut cycle and selects about ten to twelve people, an acceptance rate well below one...
NASA already flies two famous space telescopes, Hubble and James Webb. A third is almost ready: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching in...