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Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China are all interested in lunar missions. For the Trump administration, “it could be a very smart international or geopolitical tool if they do it correctly,” says science journalist Loren Grush.

If built, the refrigerator-sized DART could take aim at a 160-meter asteroid in as little as five years.

Hundreds of new planet candidates have been identified, including 10 that could be rocky planets in the “just right” Goldilocks zone of their stars.

For scientists, data from the Juno probe is yielding surprises — and more questions.

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars in recent investments, NASA is still years away from new spacesuits, auditors say.