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Space

Can NASA's Mars Sample Return Program Be Saved? Some Experts Think So

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

These Physicists Can’t Explain Why a Small Neutron Star Came Bursting Back to Life

ByMarcus Lower, Gregory Desvignes, Patrick Weltevrede and The Conversation
Space

The Solar Eclipse Gave Astronomers An Unprecedented Window Into What Drives Space Weather

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
space

9 Totally Stellar Images From April 8’s Solar Eclipse

ByKiona Smith
Science

Inside the Outlandish Space Project to Construct a Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon

ByKiona Smith
Science

If One of These Stars Explodes the Radioactive Atoms Could Decimate Life on Earth

ByChris Impey and The Conversation
Space

NASA's Curiosity Rover Has Just Arrived Where Ancient Water Likely Existed

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

This Easy, Free App Helps Take Beautiful Pictures of the Eclipse From Your Phone

ByKiona Smith
Space

105 Years Ago, This Astrophysicist Used a Solar Eclipse to Prove Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity

ByKiona Smith
Science

Exploding Stars Made of Dark Matter Could Finally Confirm a 47-Year-Old Hypothesis

ByThe Conversation and Andreea Font
Science

A Forensic Biologist Reveals Why Solving Crimes in Space Will Be Harder Than You Think

ByThe Conversation, Graham Williams and Zack Kowalske
Space

This NASA Map Shows Exactly What You’ll See During April’s Eclipse From Everywhere in the United States

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

Can Space Tourism Give You Cancer?

ByThe Conversation and Chris Rees
Space

Boeing's Starliner Could Resolve A Huge Flaw With NASA’s Flight System

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

NASA Was Watching SpaceX’s Starship Flight Closely — Here’s the Reason Why

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

NASA Scientist Reveals What Asteroids Keep Him Up At Night In New Book

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

25 Years Later, This Iconic NASA Telescope Lost Critical Funding To Keep It Alive

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Look! SpaceX’s Epic Starship Orbit In Photos

ByKiona Smith
space

SpaceX’s Starship, the World’s Most Powerful Rocket, Finally Made It Into Orbit

ByKiona Smith
Space

Look! Scientists Uncover the Remains of a Collapsed Volcano On Mars

ByKiona Smith
Space

46 Years Later, This Iconic Pair Of NASA Spacecraft Are Still Sending Signals Home

ByKiona Smith
Science

NASA: We Didn't Change Your Zodiac Sign, Astrology Isn't Real

ByJames Grebey
Science

This Simple Yet Critical Aspect Of Spaceflight Has Completely Stumped Engineers

ByYang Gao and The Conversation
Science

KONA BLUE: Top-Secret Government Program To Investigate “Human Consciousness Anomalies” Doesn’t Exist, New Report Says

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spotted A Mysterious Phenomenon Buried Beneath Jupiter’s Atmosphere

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Who Owns the Moon? The Race For Lunar Real Estate Is An Impending Ethical Nightmare

ByKiona Smith
Health

A Psychiatrist Reveals the Human Emotions That Could Halt Longterm Space Travel

ByThe Conversation and Nick Kanas
Science

This Hardy Creature Can Survive Almost Anything — Could It Colonize the Moon?

ByThe Conversation and Laurent Palka
Science

This Exoplanet 580 Light-Years From Earth Might Have Seasons Just Like Ours

ByThe Conversation and Gongjie Li
Space

Hubble Spots A Community Of Extremely Old Stars That Have Aced Longevity

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Look: Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus Moon Lander Sent Back What Could Be Its Final Photo

ByKiona Smith
Space

Odysseus Lunar Lander Lands Sideways on Moon — But Not To Worry

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

46 Years Ago, a Rare Alignment of Our Planets Allowed For An Iconic Space Mission

ByKiona Smith
Space

NASA's Future Moon Rocket Just Took a Huge Step Towards Being Ready to Launch

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

‘Odysseus’ Just Performed First American Moon Landing Since Apollo

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

The Uncanny Donut-Shaped Region Beyond Neptune Could Be ‘Billions of Miles’ Larger Than We Thought

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
The Inverse Awards

The 12 Most Mind-Blowing Science Breakthroughs of 2023

ByElana Spivack
SpaceTime

50 years ago, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. joined forces to ensure astronauts could survive in space

ByAllie Hutchison
Space Science

How the Webb Telescope is Rewriting What We Know About the Early Universe, One Galaxy at a Time

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
HORIZONS

China and Russia are on track to set up a Moon base by 2036 — here’s the plan

ByAllie Hutchison
Space

Did NASA Just Enter A New Space Race? A Space Policy Expert Says It Would Be a Mistake

ByKiona Smith
Webb Watch

We finally know when the Webb Telescope's first color images will arrive — here's what to expect

ByKiona Smith
SpaceTime

10 years ago, one SpaceX launch showed NASA they could work with Elon Musk

ByAllie Hutchison
believe it

Mushrooms on Mars: One man's quest to prove life on another planet

ByPassant Rabie
FEATURE

53 years ago, NASA convinced Americans to go to the Moon — can they do it again?

ByPassant Rabie
The Inverse Awards 2022

Inside NASA's monumental effort to deliver the first Webb Telescope images

ByJon Kelvey
Innovation

50 years ago, a powerful satellite overcame opposition and changed how we understand Earth forever

ByAllie Hutchison
UFO

Astrophysicists may be on the brink of a massive alien breakthrough

ByKiona Smith
Science

45 years ago, NASA's first Space Shuttle only went five miles up — and changed spaceflight forever

ByAllie Hutchison
Inverse Interview

The Webb Telescope is uniquely able to find potentially habitable worlds — here's why

ByClaire Cameron