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September 19, 20253 min readAstronomers’ Exoplanet Haul Tops 6,000 Alien WorldsIt’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally showsBy Sarah Lewin Frasier edited by Clara MoskowitzScientists…

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot”…

As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time…

A full supermoon rises behind a mountain in the village of Dodekametro, in the region of Arcadia in Greece, on July 10. Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.The White House recently proposed slashing NASA’s science budget nearly in half and reducing the space agency’s…

NASA’s Plan for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Could Be a Lunar Land GrabSpurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing…

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Although NASA and its counterpart in Russia, Roscosmos, continue to work together on a daily basis, the leaders of the two organizations have not held face-to-face…

During President Trump’s first term in office, he signed Space Policy Directive 1, signaling the administration’s desire to bring American astronauts back to the moon. This…

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. What happens when a billionaire has more control over America’s space program than the agency that…