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NASA 50 Years Ago: The Launch of Skylab
Photos of the launch and missions of America’s first space station
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NASA The Beauty of Earth From Orbit
Recent images of our home planet, seen by crew members of the International Space Station
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Getty; The Atlantic The Universe Is More in Our Hands Than Ever Before
Astronomy is in a new era. It involves giant lasers.
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Getty The Military Is About to Launch a Constellation
Private companies have been sending herds of tiny satellites to orbit for years. Now the Space Force wants to join this very crowded party.
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SpaceX / Getty Our Strange New Era of Space Travel
Humans last set foot on the moon 50 years ago. Now we’re going back, but the way we explore space has gone through some big changes.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech If You Must Cry Over a Space Robot, Make It This One
NASA’s InSight mission was the little lander that kinda, mostly could.
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NASA / Joel Kowsky / Getty ‘The Universe Doesn’t Care That We Have Holidays’
NASA researchers monitor the night sky even when most of the country has a day off.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona The Luckiest Rover
Well, well, well! Look what the Martian wind blew in.
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NASA NASA’s Plan to Bounce People Off the Atmosphere
An uncrewed capsule has circled the moon and made a historic plunge on its way home.
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NASA / Corbis / Getty Seeing Earth From Space Will Change You
The question is how.
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Space Frontiers / Hulton Archive / Getty How We Could Discover Alien Life
Space reporter Marina Koren on NASA’s plans to travel to the moon, Mars, and Europa—and why it is now studying UAPs
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NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team How Vast Is the Cosmos, Really?
Life is an accident of space and time.
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ScreenProd / Alamy The Most Overhyped Space Movie
2001: A Space Odyssey is prescient, beautiful, and entirely unsatisfactory.
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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Joseph DePasquale (STScI) 2022 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Every day until Sunday, December 25, this page will present a new, incredible image of our universe from one of two space telescopes.
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Gregg Newton / AFP / Getty NASA’s Overshadowed Moon Launch
After a successful takeoff, a crewless capsule is on its way to the moon. Where’s the fanfare?
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J. David Ake / AP Views of the Total Lunar Eclipse
Some of the many photos taken by observers of last night’s celestial event
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; NASA / Space … Space Might Wreak Havoc on the Human Gut
Science has a lot to learn about the microbiome of astronauts.
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NASA The Russian Space Program Is Falling Back to Earth
The storied space superpower was already stalling. Then came the Ukraine war.
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NASA / SWRI / MSSS / Jason Perry There’s Hope for Life on Europa, a Distant Moon
Beneath its frozen surface could be a salty ocean—and maybe a comfortable home for small life forms.
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NASA Well, That’s One Way to Save a Space Telescope From Falling Back to Earth
The beloved Hubble observatory could get the SpaceX treatment.
