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The NASA administrator Jared Isaacman tells Ross Douthat how his trips to space shaped his perspective on space travel.

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Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

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An international research team announces the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a binary star system. Named HD 143811 b, ...

Can NASA and Elon Musk get us to Mars and beyond?

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...