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?
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JWST's revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA's Spitzer first, it wouldn't have been possible.
NASA's Juno mission, in orbit around Jupiter, occasionally flies past its innermost large moon: Io. The volcanic activity is unbelievable.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it's a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
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.
The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.
NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.
Is information intrinsic in our universe? NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains.
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The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
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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The asteroid is expected to come within 140,000 miles of Earth — well inside the moon’s orbit.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
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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.
It is humanity's biggest step yet into the Solar System.
Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here's how NASA will at last discover and measure them.
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.
Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
Yes, NASA's Perseverance rover found organics on Mars. So did Curiosity. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean anything in the search for life.
Spaceguard shows that we can manage risks to the extinction of humanity — if only we put our mind to it.
Sophisticated rovers have found the conditions for Martian life, as well as the building blocks of life, but never life itself. AI can help.
The costs of such an endeavor would be extremely high, while the potential payoffs would be uncertain.
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The DART mission tested whether it's possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
It's not about fairness. It's about using every possible advantage.