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Noisy neighbour: The Earth randomly blasted Venus with a Missy Elliott hip-hop song last week, because why not?

The song journeyed approximately 254 million kilometres from Earth to Venus, completing the trip in…

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NASA is scrapping a moon rover that it spent $450 million to build

NASA is cutting its losses and scrapping its moon rover mission, after it proved to be exceedingly …

Aditi Bharade   


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Last week, an asteroid pair came dangerously close to Earth, posed for some pictures and left!

Both asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 came in peace and were more than happy to be papped. 2011 UL21…

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No planned date to return to Earth for two NASA astronauts due to issues with Boeing Starliner spacecraft

The two NASA astronauts were scheduled to return on June 14. However, the pair has no set date to r…

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Why did a NASA spacecraft suddenly start talking gibberish after more than 45 years of operation? What fixed it?

Voyager 1 mysteriously stopped sending decipherable science and engineering data back to Earth on N…

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NASA says astronauts from Boeing's Starliner could be in space for a couple more weeks even though their test flight was only supposed to last 8 days

NASA and Boeing say they're being cautious to make sure astronauts testing the new Starliner spacec…

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Planned crewed launch of Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft called off

NASA announced on social media platform X that the problem was identified with an oxygen valve on p…

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Yes, the moon is shrinking but that's not the disturbing news scientists discovered that could threaten future NASA missions

A shrinking lunar crust causes moonquakes and could lead to dangerous landslides that may harm futu…

Jenny McGrath   


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NASA is investigating where a chunk of metal that smashed into a Florida house came from

Most space debris burns up as it enters Earth's atmosphere, but a homeowner in Naples, Florida, wit…

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Perseverance rover has found a rock with potential signs of ancient life on Mars! Scientists can’t wait to bring it back

The rock exhibits chemical signatures and structures that might have formed billions of years ago, …

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Forget distant fly-bys of giant rocks—this plane-sized asteroid will come within 1.7 million km of Earth this week!

Come Friday, this near-Earth object will make its closest approach to our planet in a decade!

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NASA found a stray, space-grown tomato that went missing for 8 months, clearing the astronaut they all thought ate it

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio lost the tomato after the harvest this spring. His colleagues had accuse…

Grace Eliza Goodwin   


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The hardest part of discovering alien life may be announcing it. Here's how NASA might break the news.

Mystery flying objects, UFOs or "UAPs," probably aren't aliens. But if extraterrestrial life is rea…

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NASA sent a spaceship rocketing by an asteroid — and discovered the space rock has a little baby one dancing around it

NASA's Lucy spacecraft discovered that the asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary asteroid system.

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NASA refused to name its new UFO chief, then quietly added his identity to a press release hours later

NASA's new UFO (or UAP) research plan needs a chief. Officials initially said they would keep the r…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Maiya Focht   


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NASA moves forward with plans for supersonic planes that could fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours

NASA is working with private companies to come up with designs for commercial supersonic planes. It…

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Just Look Up: Giant asteroid the size of Qutub Minar to pass dangerously close to Earth

It is not just natural calamities and deadly viruses that may end the human race, giant asteroids h…

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NASA to develop second Moon lander alongside SpaceX's Starship

As NASA makes strides to return humans to the lunar surface under Artemis, the space agency has ann…

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7 Easter eggs in the images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are totally new to astronomy

An astronomer points out hidden sights in NASA's new images, from previously invisible star cluster…

Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall-Johnsen