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A new study reports that 26 new bacterial species were found growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.
Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, along with researchers in India and Saudi ...
Seven of the new strains were cultured during the assembly of the Phoenix mission that landed on the surface of Mars.
NASA once had a bold plan to establish a human colony on Mars, but for decades, the mission remained classified and eventually abandoned. What happened to this ambitious vision? Could it have worked?
In collaboration with a Japanese university, NASA researchers used supercomputers to predict when life will no longer be ...
Sen. John Cornyn introduced the Mission to Modernize Astronautic Resources for Space Act, which would improve and modernize the Johnson Space Center.
“The Budget refocuses National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) funding on beating ... of Government Efficiency, has made Mars colonization a goal of his for years.
On April 25, 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget announced a plan that would slash NASA’s science program ...
A recent study by Toho University, using NASAs planetary modeling, predicts that life on Earth will end in approximately one billion years due to the Sun's increasing heat. The supercomputer ...
On Feb. 27, 1988, the first of my weekly columns on stargazing appeared in print. More than 1.5 million words later, I sit ...