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SpaceX making progress on Starship in-space refueling technologies

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Dr. Sarah Adams

WASHINGTON — NASA says SpaceX is on track to demonstrate in-space refueling of Starship next year, a critical technology for returning humans ...

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The Mars orbiter images appear to suggest that the Red Planet has succumbed to an infestation of creepy crawlies, but what’s really ...

Meet the NASA astronauts who will be first to fly on Boeing’s Starliner spaceship

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Two NASA astronauts are set to become the first in history to launch into space aboard a Boeing spaceship. Astronauts Barry “Butch” ...

Mars’ subsurface is ‘burping’ out methane and scientists aren’t sure why

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Since 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on Mars, specifically near its landing site inside the 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale ...

Martian Methane Baffles Scientists: Curiosity Rover’s Surprising Discovery

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Dr. Sarah Adams

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected methane in Gale Crater on Mars, a surprising find as there are no signs of life on ...

NASA begins delivering 1st Artemis Moon Trees to be planted across United States

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The first woman slated to launch to the moon has delivered one of the first trees grown from seeds recently flown there. ...

NASA pauses $16 billion Hubble space telescope that pinned down age of the universe due to ‘glitch’

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Dr. Sarah Adams

One of Hubble’s gyroscopes is acting up, so the telescope went into safe mode Scientists are figuring out what to do, but ...

Watch 2 gorgeous supernova remnants evolve over 20 years (timelapse video)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

When we picture what’s in deep space, we often think of static images — colorful composites of distant objects like nebulas and ...

Laser on NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Late last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that ...

Inside NASA’s 5-month fight to save the Voyager 1 mission in interstellar space

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Dr. Sarah Adams

After working for five months to re-establish communication with the farthest-flung human-made object in existence, NASA announced this week that the Voyager ...