NASA is back on the moon — with the first commercial lunar landing ever

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An artist's illustration of Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander on the moon with Earth in the background.
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander touched down on the moon's surface.

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NASA will pay 4 health-conscious 'astronaut-like' people to live inside a Mars simulation for 378 days. See if you qualify.

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The current CHAPEA crew enters the habitat in Houston.

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12 years after NASA launched its Juno mission to Jupiter, these are its most stunning images of the gas giant

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NASA's Juno spacecraft flying above Jupiter's swirling clouds.
An illustration of NASA's Juno spacecraft flying above the clouds of Jupiter.

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NASA Works to Remotely Fix Perseverance Rover on Mars

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In our top science stories this week, SpaceX must deorbit 100 Starlink satellites due to a flaw; a person in Oregon caught the bubonic plague from their pet cat; and the Perseverance rover’s SHERLOC instrument is on the fritz. Oh, and a grotesque AI interpretation of rat genitalia somehow made it past peer review.

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NASA explains how it would alert the public of an apocalyptic asteroid strike

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An artist's impression of what an asteroid impact on Earth would look like.

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NASA opens rare job opportunity to live in a Mars simulation for a year

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The inaugural CHAPEA crew celebrates Thanksgiving inside the habitat. From left to right: Nathan Jones, Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell.

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NASA’s Fire-in-Space Experiment Ends in Flames

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After eight years of experimenting with flames in space, NASA lit a fire inside a cargo spacecraft for the last time and sent its Saffire experiment toward a burning reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.

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We Finally Know How Much of That Asteroid OSIRIS-REx Grabbed in Space

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After opening up that stubborn sample canister, NASA was finally able to weigh the full amount of asteroid bits snagged by its spacecraft more than three years ago. As it turns out, there is plenty of space rock that made its way to Earth.

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The man who was almost NASA's first Black astronaut in the 1960s explains why he never made it to space

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Ed Dwight in the cockpit of an F-104 circa the 1960s.

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Watch the sun show off all year with a total eclipse, strong solar storms, and NASA almost landing on the solar surface

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The sun develops coronal holes, one of many forms of solar activity that could peak this year.

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