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August 29, 2018

NASA is using underwater robots to explore the deep-sea off the Hawaiian coast

NASA is launching a new project to help it better understand the deepest parts of space, without ever leaving Earth.

August 29, 2018

Why Jupiter's rapid growth spurt was delayed for millions of years

New research suggests why Jupiter , the largest planet in the solar system, waited about two million years for its early-formation growth spurt.

August 29, 2018

This is how NASA's trying to find better cancer treatments in space

With careful attention from an astronaut, a blood cell experiment may deliver improvements on cancer-fighting treatments.

August 28, 2018

Asteroid billiards: This wild idea to protect Earth just might work

Protecting Earth from dangerous space rocks might require a little asteroid-on-asteroid violence.

August 28, 2018

Doorbell camera captures fireball flashing through the sky in Missouri

Incredible footage captured on a doorbell camera shows a fireball flashing through the night sky in Missouri.

August 28, 2018

E.T., phone Earth? How neutron-star crashes could help aliens call us

The first-ever observations of merging binary stars stunned the astronomy community last year, but not quite as much as the first-ever signal from extraterrestrial life might someday stun the world.

August 27, 2018

Landing site on asteroid Ryugu chosen for Japan's Hayabusa2 mission

We now know where a Japanese asteroid-sampling probe's lander will touch down this October.

August 27, 2018

NASA chief wants to send humans to the Moon — 'to stay'

HOUSTON — Jim Bridenstine wants to make sure that there is never another day when humans are not in space.

August 27, 2018

Glowing NASA map shows huge dust clouds swirling across Earth

We live our whole lives wandering from one cloud of dust to the next. The air is full of the stuff: salt wafting in from the sea, black carbon soot from wildfires and all sorts of dusty emissions from heavy industry.

August 24, 2018

Would-be NASA intern reportedly loses position over vulgar tweets

A newly hired NASA intern recently lost a position at the agency after a vulgar exchange with a famous NASA engineer on Twitter, according to news reports, such as one from USA Today.