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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.
NASA’s Juno mission, in orbit around Jupiter, occasionally flies past its innermost large moon: Io. The volcanic activity is unbelievable.
The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.
To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.
JWST’s revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA’s Spitzer first, it wouldn’t have been possible.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.
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.
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.
“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”
The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.
NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains what happens when the densest stars in the galaxy collide.
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Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
The asteroid is expected to come within 140,000 miles of Earth — well inside the moon’s orbit.
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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.
These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.
If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
This beautiful JWST image of Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 has been called a “prelude to a supernova” by NASA. That might be entirely wrong.
