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Soon, astronauts on moon missions won’t have any excuse for not answering their texts. NASA has awarded Nokia of America $14.1 million to deploy a cellular network on the moon. The freaking moon. The grant is part of…

A robotic arm extended from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly contacted the rugged surface of asteroid Bennu Tuesday to gobble up pristine samples, a climactic moment in the $1 billion mission to bring asteroid material back…

The rover will scan for bacteria that can cause strange rock formations similar to those on Earth Nasa’s Perserverance rover will use x-rays to look for Martian fossils, powered by artificial intelligence. The space agency said that the rover will be…

Leading astronomer says discovery will open up ‘whole new line of thinking’ Nasa is close to finding life on Mars but the world is not ready for the “revolutionary” implications of the discovery, the space agency’s chief scientist…

NASA has a plan to save mankind as the end of the world becomes more than just a possibility, a scientist revealed in a sobering interview. First announced by the space agency in 2016, the…

The Chandra X-ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray observatory ever built, has generated over 23 trillion bytes of data since it launched on July 23, 1999. From its highly elliptical orbit around Earth (the observatory makes it one-third…

ELON Musk’s Space X will be sending cannabis to the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). The space dwellers can expect their delivery to be on a Space X Dragon capsule, which is scheduled…

‘Dent’ or anomaly is small but getting bigger, scientists warn Nasa is monitoring a “small but evolving dent” in the Earth’s magnetic field that could cause major problems for satellites and spacecraft. The Earth’s magnetic…

At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer. That conjures to mind shades-wearing Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the “Men in Black” movies.…

In July 1969, NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins successfully attempted the first human Moon landing. As they flew towards the Moon aboard their Columbia spacecraft, a short exchange between Mr Armstrong and…

If you are one of those who are curious by nature, NASA has a YouTube channel full of interesting videos, and among them is a live broadcast of the International Space Station (ISS). Recently, the ISS…

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 launch date. The rover’s astrobiology mission will search for signs of microscopic life spent on Mars, explore the geology of the Jezero crater…

Once every 53.5 days, NASA’s Juno probe screams over Jupiter’s cloud tops roughly 75 times as fast as a bullet. The spacecraft has used these high-speed flybys, called perijoves, to document the gas giant like…