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Jackie Appel • February 3, 2021
Astronomers are finding ways to keep investigating the universe despite missing data due to COVID-19 telescope shutdowns
Jackie Appel • January 27, 2021
Scientists recently developed a substance that could help plants grow on Mars without the need for an artificial oxygen atmosphere
Joanna Thompson • December 28, 2020
Take a cyber tour of the dwarf planet, courtesy of NASA’s New Horizons probe
Rahul Rao • May 6, 2020
Pluto’s next human-made visitor could peel away the world’s surface and reveal an ocean underneath
Rahul Rao • October 31, 2019
Astronomers are closer than ever to understanding the origins of the Solar System’s most peculiar moon
Isobel Whitcomb • November 29, 2018
Searching for extraterrestrial life is like trying to meet someone in Manhattan with no prearranged place or time
Charlie Wood • April 23, 2018
Saturn orbiter Cassini traveled nearly 5 billion miles on less than four tons of fuel
Matthew Phelan • March 7, 2018
In many ways, these little microbes are better prepared for space travel than we are
Jessica Boddy • February 26, 2018
Here’s how it affects you (and how we study it)
Jessica Boddy • October 23, 2017
Social media made us love—and mourn—a space robot
Harrison Tasoff • July 26, 2017
Powerful rockets were built and tested in a sleepy residential suburb of Los Angeles
Mark D. Kaufman • April 27, 2017
Global cooling forecasts from the 1970s don’t discredit today’s climate science
Cici Zhang • November 21, 2016
Interplanetary travel requires tackling the same problems Matt Damon did — only better
Cici Zhang • November 14, 2016
The real risk is for pseudoscience, not mood swings or tsunamis
Mark D. Kaufman • October 21, 2016
NASA takes it seriously but Elon Musk is undaunted