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This image made available by NASA shows an illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover deploying a supersonic parachute from its aeroshell as it slows down before landing. NASA's Perseverance rover touched down safely on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.

NASA Hid an Inspiring Message on the Parachute of the Mars Rover Perseverance

Here's how a computer science student and his father cracked the secret cod...

Here's how a computer science student and his father cracked the secret code

Astronauts Doug Hurley (L) and Bob Behnken (R) wave to their families before boarding at the pre-launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center on May 27, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

SpaceX and NASA Are Set for a Historic Crewed Launch Saturday. Here's How to Watch

It'll be the first launch of American astronauts from American soil in near...

It'll be the first launch of American astronauts from American soil in nearly a decade

President Nixon talking to the Apollo 11 crew members (left to right: Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin Jr.) while the astronauts were in quarantine after returning to Earth from their trip to the moon.

Coronavirus Could Preview What Will Happen When Alien Life Reaches Earth

You know what? Maybe we ought to reconsider this whole thing about looking ...

You know what? Maybe we ought to reconsider this whole thing about looking for life on other worlds. It would be nice to find it, of course. But that doesn't mean we could handle it—biologically,...

U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 24, 2015.

Hidden Figures Hero Katherine Johnson Reminded Us That Space Was Never Safe From America’s Worst Impulses

Nor was NASA excluded from the nation's evolution

US President Donald Trump shakes Buzz Aldrin, former NASA Astronaut and second man on the moon, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on June 30, 2017

NASA Could Get a Raise Next Year to Help Fund a 2024 Human Trip to the Moon

For decades, NASA has been the kid politely asking for a raise in its allow...

For decades, NASA has been the kid politely asking for a raise in its allowance. Time was NASA's pocket money was huge. Go back 54 years, to 1966, and the space agency was getting $5.9...

Blue marble: The home planet as seen from lunar orbit, Christmas Eve, 1968

The Irony of Finding So Many Exoplanets in a Time of Climate Change

There was nothing quite like the slang used in the early days of the space ...

There was nothing quite like the slang used in the early days of the space program. Saying something was "OK" would not do when you could say "A-OK" instead. Saying, "Let's get moving," when you've...

An artist's illustration of TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

NASA May Have Found the Goldilocks Planet of Goldilocks Planets: TOI 700 d

If you ask astronomers how many planets in the universe harbor life, they w...

If you ask astronomers how many planets in the universe harbor life, they will likely say there are only two possible answers: one or infinity. We can rule out zero, thanks to the decidedly alive...