NASA’s space telescopes and observatories bring humanity unrivaled science images and scientific discoveries. Here’s what should be next.
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Comparing Elon Musk’s Mars rocket to NASA’s new ride.
NASA’s minivan-sized drone is scheduled to search for signs of life on Titan in 2034.
Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.
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.
Is information intrinsic in our universe? NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains.
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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.
“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
JWST’s revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA’s Spitzer first, it wouldn’t have been possible.
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.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.
Reusable rockets, moon landers, civilian astronauts, and more.
NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains what happens when the densest stars in the galaxy collide.
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Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
The asteroid is expected to come within 140,000 miles of Earth — well inside the moon’s orbit.
These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.
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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.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
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.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.