NASA’s drastic plan: Nuclear bombs could be used to stop ‘City-Killer’ asteroid headed for the moon

Asteroid 2024 YR4's potential lunar impact in 2032 has prompted renewed consideration of nuclear disruption as a planetary ...

Harvard scientist accuses NASA of ‘hiding’ critical evidence about Manhattan-sized comet 3I/ATLAS

Scientist Avi Loeb has accused NASA of withholding critical information about 3I/ATLAS — the Manhattan-sized interstellar ...

With 15,000 workers furloughed and funds uncertain, NASA focuses on one mission — return to the moon

The space agency has been grappling with budget uncertainties and a talent exodus even before the shutdown. But NASA’s moon ...

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

NASA discovered a bacteria that can ‘play dead’—and might have accidentally sent it to Mars

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.
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As shutdown continues, science community keeps focus on long-term budget concerns

As the government shutdown drags on, scientists and advocates remain focused on the long-term effects of proposed budget cuts ...
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NASA’s Moon Race Looks like a Losing Bet

Former NASA officials warn that the U.S. looks poised to lose its self-declared race to beat China to the moon ...
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NASA Vs. Elon Musk: Is A Moon Landing This Decade Off The Cards?

The Moon landing was first envisioned to happen in 2024, then this year, and then it was postponed to next year. At the end ...

NASA Is Crucial to the U.S. Winning the New Space Race

In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful voyage to the Americas, China seemed most poised to use ...

NASA Detects Mysterious Pulses From 3I/ATLAS—Could It Be a Signal From Alien Life?

NASA is investigating puzzling radio pulses detected from 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet currently moving through the ...

A NASA commander’s most important system wasn’t a computer. It was the crew.

Her determination eventually led her to join NASA and take a leading role in building the International Space Station through ...
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This Historian Interviewed Nearly Every Woman Astronaut and Learned How They Redefined NASA Forever

Historian Valerie Neal reveals how women astronauts transformed NASA and redefined what it means to explore space.