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Humans last walked on the moon during NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. This moment is often regarded as the pinnacle of the U.S. space…

October 14, 20254 min readThe U.S. Won’t Win the New Space Race by Defunding NASAThe U.S. wants to remain a superpower in space. It can’t without…

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred…

new video loaded: NASA Introduces New Astronaut CandidatestranscriptBacktranscriptNASA Introduces New Astronaut CandidatesNASA announced 10 new candidates to begin training as astronauts as part of a plan…

September 19, 20253 min readAstronomers’ Exoplanet Haul Tops 6,000 Alien WorldsIt’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally showsBy Sarah Lewin Frasier edited by Clara MoskowitzScientists…

NASA will no longer allow any Chinese nationals to contribute China and the US are competing in a new age space raceA Chinese spy carried out…

For decades, NASA built and flew its own relay orbiters and spacecraft to ferry valuable data back to Earth. Now the agency is shifting to buying…

As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time…

Actions to NASA OICS: • • . • Within 30 days of this directive, the Associate Administrator (AA) for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD)…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.The White House recently proposed slashing NASA’s science budget nearly in half and reducing the space agency’s…