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Elon Musk's SpaceX wins contract to launch NASA's astrophysics mission
NASA has selected tech billionaire Elon Musk's private aerospace company SpaceX to provide launch s…
NASA picks Elon Musk's SpaceX to help with a $99 million mission that will map the creation of the universe
NASA said a space telescope called SPHEREx would launch via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and collect d…
Kate Duffy
Read the 40-word letter astronaut Sally Ride wrote to NASA that led to her becoming the 1st American woman in space
She became an expert in NASA's robotic arm system, and was appointed into the commission investigat…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
A highly classified US spy satellite is missing due to a SpaceX mission failure
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said on Twitte…
Tara Francis Chan
NASA may attempt a 'risky' maneuver to fix its broken Hubble Space Telescope this week
Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline in mid-June. Now,…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
To fix the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA may have to rely on a computer that hasn't turned on since 2009
Hubble engineers thought the issue was an old memory module. But that was just a symptom of the rea…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
How to watch NASA reveal a 'discovery beyond our solar system' on Wednesday
Another attendee is Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT who's leading NASA's Transiting Exopl…
Dave Mosher
Here's How Many Intelligent Alien Civilizations Might Live In Our Galaxy
While most of the specific values in the Drake Equation remain unknown to us, Frank Drake's goal ba…
Andy Kiersz,Jessica Orwig
NASA is about to switch its Hubble Space Telescope to backup hardware - a 'risky' maneuver to save its life
Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline a month ago. They…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
Queen guitarist Brian May released a new song celebrating NASA's historic visit to the farthest object ever explored - take a listen
NASA's New Horizons probe, which launched toward Pluto in 2006, successfully flew past MU69 on…
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki
This imaginative drawing liked by Elon Musk reveals just how crazy SpaceX's first missions to Mars will be
"It was really out of impatience that I made this, because I can't wait to see what SpaceX is going…
Dave Mosher
Humans Are About To Land A Probe On A Comet For The First Time - Here's How To Watch Live
Here's a handy infographic showing the steps of Philae's 7-hour descent, starting at 9:03 GMT (4:03…
Jessica Orwig
Rumors are swirling that a secret government satellite crashed, but SpaceX says its rocket 'did everything correctly'
"Since the data reviewed so far indicates that no design, operational or other changes are needed, …
Dave Mosher
Aditya L1: Solar quakes can alter geomagnetic field of earth says top scientist
Ahead of India's Aditya-L1 solar mission, a top scientist said the monitoring of the Sun on a 24-ho…
PTI
China secretly tests 'reusable' spacecraft amid border tensions with India
Beijing claimed that the "successful flight marked the country's important breakthrough in reu…
Poland is about to launch a fake Mars colony on a hilltop
The two-week mission is just a simulation, of course, since no entity on Earth is prepared to inhab…
Dave Mosher
NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday. Listen to the announcement live.
NASA says the discovery could support deep-space exploration efforts. It will share the findings in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
Space debris from a Russian missile test could disrupt Elon Musk's Starlink project to beam the internet from orbit
As the debris from the anti-satellite test spreads around the world, it could knock some of the sat…