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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Set for High-Stakes Asteroid Encounter on Sunday
The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter ...
The ISS Is in the ‘Riskiest Period of Its Existence,’ NASA Safety Panel Warns
The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth since 1998, housing groups of astronauts in the microgravity environment around ...
A Mission to Take Sick Images of the Sun Got Its First Test Shots Back
Check out the vibrant first photo from PUNCH, a NASA mission that is hitting the ground running with some neat ...
Jupiter Is Getting Slammed by Ammonia Slushees, Scientists Confirm
In 2020, a group of scientists came up with an explanation for strange inconsistencies in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. They suggested ...
NASA Wants to Track Earth’s Gravity With a Cloud of Floating Atoms in Space
Buckle up, nerds: NASA is building the first quantum gravity sensor for space—a suitcase-sized instrument that could soon be measuring ...
Texas Republicans Want to Steal Space Shuttle Discovery From the Smithsonian
After NASA’s Space Shuttles were retired in 2010, they were eventually sent to museums in Florida, California, New York, and ...
Sneak Preview of Trump’s 2026 NASA Budget Is a Science-Killing Horror Show
After weeks of uncertainty, it appears that the Trump administration is preparing to gut NASA, based on a preliminary budget ...
Juno Gave NASA Controllers Quite the Scare During Recent Jupiter Flyby
For nearly a decade, a large probe has braved the harsh Jovian environment to bring us mesmerizing, close-up views of ...
NASA’s Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as the Iconic Mission Nears Its End
In 1977, two probes launched less than a month apart on a mission to the great beyond. The twin Voyager ...
SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster
SpaceX is having trouble with Starship’s upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket’s ...
