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How N.R.A. Fundraising Shapes the Political Landscape
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Arts, Culture & Media
Garage Inventors
Arts, Culture & Media
Desert Planes and Automobiles
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
Arts, Culture & Media
It’s a Giant Dirt Igloo – Want to Buy It?
Arts, Culture & Media
Imagine Your Next Vacation Destination: Kepler-186f
Moon
Technology
The Trump administration wants to put Americans back on the moon
Science
NASA is designing a spacecraft that could nudge asteroids out of Earth’s way
An artist’s concept of a planetary system discovered by Kepler, called KOI-961.
Science
Kepler turns up a trove of new exoplanets
Jupiter
Technology
Take a dazzling new peek at Jupiter
spacesuit
Technology
NASA’s short on spacesuits — and new ones may not be ready for upcoming missions
Explorers Tom and Tina Sjogren stand in front of a blackboard at a makers space.
Science
Dreaming of a DIY mission to Mars
Enceladus
Science
Could there be life on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? New research raises the possibility.
The moon over Earth, as seen from the GOES-16 satellite
Technology
Satellites are destined to become space junk. But in the future, we may be able to retool them.
Wind patterns in the ice pack that covers the Arctic Ocean north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska on March 18, 2011.
Science
Sea ice has hit new record lows at both poles
An artist's concept of the Psyche spacecraft.
Science
Two new NASA missions look to asteroids for clues about our early solar system
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet on his first spacewalk on Jan. 13.
Science
French and US astronauts spacewalk for space station repairs
The Top Risks of 2017, Violence in Chicago, The New Space Race
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NASA's earth science program might be at risk under the Trump Administration.
Environment
NASA’s Earth and climate research might be in jeopardy under Trump
The Mauna Ulu lava shield in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
Science
Scientists just used Hawaii as a ‘body double’ for Mars
A true-color image of Pluto
Technology
Picturing the data: Scientists get new glimpses at the microscopic — and the cosmic
Margaret Hamilton, lead Apollo flight software designer, inside the Command Module. Credit: NASA
Science
The women who made communication with outer space possible
Lightning strikes over Lake Maracaibo in the village of Ologa, where the Catatumbo River feeds into the lake, in the western state of Zulia October 23, 2014.
Environment
The world’s new lightning capital sees more than 100,000 flashes a year
The 2016 Mercury planetary transit is seen in a NASA conceptual image, made of many images captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) during the last Mercury transit in 2006. Mercury will pass between Earth and the sun in the rare astronomi
Science
Behold: Tiny Mercury’s thrilling journey between the Earth and the sun!
In this highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. Image by NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Science
What does Pluto look like? Imagine three-mile-high mountains and nitrogen glaciers.
Riding By Pluto, A Historic Agreenment, An Infamous Experiment
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A Mission to Mars, ‘Unthinkable’ Violence, Toxic Symbols
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Domestic Terrorism, Winning The Internet, The First Ladies of Space
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Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy shortly after landing near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
Science
She’s Italy’s rock star astronaut. And she has landed safely back home
A screenshot from a NASA video explaining the development of the zero-gravity cup.
Science
A zero-gravity cup lets astronauts get a handle on their coffee
Clyde Foster analyzing data for NASA
Justice
How JFK made NASA his secret weapon in the fight for civil rights in America
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and his wife, Jackie, watch as the Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Orion spacecraft lifts off on December 5, 2014.
Science
One small step from Earth, one giant leap to Mars?
Astronaut Reid Wiseman's photo from the International Space Station of Hurricane Arthur.
Environment
From space, Hurricane Arthur makes a stunning 4th of July show