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January 15, 2022

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover runs into another snag: pebbles

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has run into another snag on its mission to find evidence of ancient microbial life. 

January 15, 2022

Citizen scientists find 'Jupiter-like' planet, NASA says

NASA announced this week that citizen scientists had spotted a Jupiter-like exoplanet in data from its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

January 1, 2022

2021 in review: Top space stories of the year

2021 was a big year for space news. 

December 22, 2021

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will launch a million miles to unwrap and explore the distant past

The James Webb is set to become the most complex object ever launched into space, and the most powerful time machine ever built.

December 18, 2021

Water detected below Martian surface, researchers say

"Significant amounts of water" have been found beneath the surface of Mars. 

November 20, 2021

NASA to crash spacecraft into asteroid to test planetary defense: What to know

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world's first planetary defense test mission, is scheduled to launch early Wednesday morning. 

October 29, 2021

NASA scientists call for new framework in search for alien life

The scale presented contains seven levels that NASA said are "reflective of the winding, complicated staircase of steps that would lead to scientists declaring they’ve found life beyond Earth."

October 16, 2021

NASA's Lucy launches to Trojan Asteroids

NASA's Lucy mission launched early Saturday from the agency's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

October 9, 2021

China's lunar rock samples show lava flowed on moon 2B years ago: researchers

China's lunar rock samples – the first moon rocks returned to Earth in more than 40 years – show lava flowed there 2 billion years ago, according to scientists.

October 8, 2021

Existence of Mars lake, floods confirmed by NASA's Perseverance team

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover team has confirmed that the red planet's Jezero Crater was once the site of a delta-lake system.