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March 30, 2019

Newt Gingrich: US astronauts will land on the moon again – here’s how to best do it

President Trump and Vice President Pence are committed to returning American astronauts to the moon by 2024. They have bold ideas for new ways of achieving this goal.

March 29, 2019

NASA is paying 24 people $19G to stay in bed

NASA has created the perfect job for anyone who really enjoys staying in bed all day, as long as they don't mind continuing to do just that for 60 days without a break.

March 29, 2019

Mars was once covered in wide, raging rivers

Mars was wet, until suddenly it wasn't.

March 28, 2019

Americans will return to moon by 2024 -- with or without NASA, Pence says

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called on NASA to step up its game and land astronauts on the moon within five years, “by any means necessary.”

March 28, 2019

Can NASA really put astronauts on the Moon in 2024?

NASA can probably meet the Trump administration's aggressive moon-landing timeline, experts say — but it won't be easy.

March 28, 2019

Are we really in a new space race with China and Russia?

How do you make an ambitious goal and a speedy timeline seem worth tackling among a busy slate of jostling existential crises?

March 28, 2019

NASA finds 'butterfly' in space

To coincide with the arrival of spring and insects buzzing, flying and crawling everywhere, NASA has found a butterfly in the last place you'd think – space.

March 28, 2019

NASA Moon orbiter tracks Chinese rover on lunar farside, photos show

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) continues to monitor the whereabouts and wanderings of China's Yutu 2 rover on the moon's far side.

March 28, 2019

Universe quickly spawned stars after Big Bang, ancient galaxy shows

Observations of the most distant galaxy ever identified revealed traces of oxygen from at least one previous generation of stars, a sign that star formation got off to an early start.

March 27, 2019

NASA Space Challenger widow’s home goes up in flames in Texas: report

Cheryl McNair, the widow of NASA Space Challenger astronaut Ronald Erwin McNair, was rescued, along with her cat and some space memorabilia, from a fire at in her home in El Lago, TX early Wednesday morning.