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Comparing Elon Musk’s Mars rocket to NASA’s new ride.
Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.
NASA’s minivan-sized drone is scheduled to search for signs of life on Titan in 2034.
NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.
The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.
NASA’s Juno mission, in orbit around Jupiter, occasionally flies past its innermost large moon: Io. The volcanic activity is unbelievable.
To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.
“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”
Is information intrinsic in our universe? NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains.
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NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.
The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
JWST’s revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA’s Spitzer first, it wouldn’t have been possible.
The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
Reusable rockets, moon landers, civilian astronauts, and more.
Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.
Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.
Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains what happens when the densest stars in the galaxy collide.
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The asteroid is expected to come within 140,000 miles of Earth — well inside the moon’s orbit.
What are dark matter and dark energy? The large-scale structure of the cosmos encodes them both, with ESA’s Euclid mission leading the way.
Featuring SpaceX’s “Mechazilla,” a first-of-its-kind spacewalk, and more.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
MIT Scientist Jason Soderblom describes how the NASA mission will study the geology and composition of the surface of Jupiter’s water-rich moon and assess its astrobiological potential.
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Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan enlightens listeners with lessons from space to ignite a sense of purpose to unlock potential, navigate change, and create opportunity.