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Waste management in space has come a long way since the first moon missions. Back in the 1960s, NASA Apollo astronauts left ...

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NASA has declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after Red Planet anomaly led to months of lost contact.

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NASA has declared that the MAVEN mission has ended after losing contact with its probe six months ago.

This week's science news.

NASA’s groundbreaking science missions, vital to exploring the cosmos and expanding humanity’s understanding of our place in the universe, are facing unprecedented threats. The White House has ...

NASA is awarding a total of $6.5 million to U.S. institutions for education and training in open science. The promise of open science is that NASA research and data should be more collaborative, ...

Unlike the largely symbolic space competition of the last century between America and the Soviet Union, the race to the Moon ...