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Area 51: Origins

America’s once-secret air base had humble beginnings.

Need for Speed

Airplanes with a mission: Fly faster.

Beyond the Moon

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The Astronaut’s Wife

Jan Evans recalls how it was for the families of moon voyagers in the Apollo era.
June 2013 | By Jennifer Ross-Nazzal

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An artist places us on the surface of Gliese 876 d

Earth-Like Planets Could be Right Next Door

Astronomers estimate that billions of habitable planets are orbiting red dwarf stars. What would it be like to live there?
June 2013 | By Bruce Lieberman

Space shuttle Atlantis

Where Have All the Shuttle Engineers Gone?

To new jobs, some odder than others.
June 2013 | By Jeremy Davis

Driving the Space Shuttle

How a team of experts navigated a spaceship through the streets of L.A.
May 21, 2013 | By Heather Goss

Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet”

New work on lunar samples reveal a shared source for water in the deep interior of both Earth and Moon.
May 14, 2013 | By Paul D. Spudis

Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity

Somebody had to do it.
May 13, 2013 | By Tony Reichhardt

Crowdsourcing Mars

Space exploration and the limits of charity.
May 09, 2013 | By Tony Reichhardt

Europe’s (Really) Cool Telescope Ends Operations

The Herschel Space Telescope closes its eye after the last of its coolant evaporated this week.
April 30, 2013 | By Heather Goss

Thin Crust Moon

New data from NASA's GRAIL mission suggest that the crust of the Moon is thinner than we had thought. Is this idea consistent with the geological evidence?
April 24, 2013 | By Paul D. Spudis

Moon Rocket Engines Reach Space At Last

It only took 40 years, but engines originally designed for the Soviet N-1 moon rocket finally left Earth yesterday.
April 22, 2013 | By Tony Reichhardt

Kepler’s New Planets: Is Anybody Home?

SETI researchers have already listened in for alien transmissions.
April 19, 2013 | By Tony Reichhardt

Five Reasons to Like NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission

So it's not the Moon or Mars. Get over it.
April 12, 2013 | By Tony Reichhardt

The Great Asteroid Grab

Instead of astronauts going to the rock, the rock will come to them.
April 12, 2013 | By Guy Gugliotta

A Brief Tour of Time (and Navigation)

A new exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum tells us where we are, and how to get where we're going next.
April 11, 2013 | By Heather Goss

NASA’s Frequent Flier

After logging nearly 1,400 hours in orbit, Jerry Ross reflects on spaceflight past and future.
April 08, 2013 | By Diane Tedeschi

The Mystery of Shackleton Crater

New information about the interior of the crater Shackleton at the south pole of the Moon sheds some light -- and even more heat -- on the vexing questions remaining about water on the Moon.
April 08, 2013 | By Paul D. Spudis

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Entry Descent & Landing (EDL) activities in SFOF MSA Fishbowl. Pre-Landing.

Date: 05 August/2012
Photographer: T. Wynne

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The team that landed Curiosity on Mars takes home a trophy.
March 22, 2013 | By Paul Hoversten

The Galileo Project

Why Europe wants its own satellite navigation program.
April 2013 | By Craig Mellow

Earth’s Mirror

Landsat shows us the home planet, warts and all.
April 2013 | By Linda Shiner

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