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What happens when you plant a moon person in a rocket garden? It grows vines. MTV on Sunday (Aug. 1) celebrated its 40th year on the air by revealing a new look for its iconic Video Music Awards (VMA) trophy at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...

The waning crescent of Asteroid Bennu can be seen in the last image captured by the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft before its departure from the space rock. NASA released the image on May 11, but it was taken already on April 9, about a month before...

Friday, July 16, 2021: A cloud of smoke generated by the RS-25 engine, which will propel the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the moon, can be seen in this image taken during a hot fire test at the NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The...

It’s been quite an eventful year for NASA’s Perseverance rover. The car-size robot and its little partner, the Ingenuity helicopter, launched toward the Red Planet one year ago today (July 30) and touched down inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. Six...

A new instrument that will fly to the moon has been delivered to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The Peregrine Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometer (PITMS), led by Principal Investigator Dr. Barbara Cohen at NASA Goddard, was built and tested in collaboration with the European Space Agency,...

NASA is best known for exploring other worlds, whether that’s sending astronauts to the Moon or flying helicopters on Mars. But under US President Joe Biden, the space agency intends to boost its reputation as a major player in studying Earth — especially with an...

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is kicking off an ambitious schedule of 18 flights in 2021 with their spring campaign from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, the program’s first major flight campaign since the COVID-19 pandemic began. For this first campaign of 2021, the team is supporting...

New artificial intelligence technology could speed up physical fault diagnosis in spacecraft and spaceflight systems, improving mission efficiency by reducing down-time. Research in artificial intelligence for spacecraft resilience (RAISR) is software developed by Pathways intern Evana Gizzi, who works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center...

Alan Shepard lifted off 60 years ago today. It was 60 years ago today that the United States’ first spaceflyer urged nervous flight controllers to ”fix your little problem and light this candle” to send him into space. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard successfully completed a...

A stunning view from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows how Mars can whip it good. Mars is quite a busy planet when it comes to wind and dust intermingling. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft captured a lucky shot of a spectacular dust devil winding across...