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It sounds like the premise of a new reality show: take four strangers, isolate them in a 3D-printed Martian habitat for more than a year, and…

Skywatchers at Nasa have discounted a Harvard astronomer’s hypothesis that a rare interstellar object hurtling through our solar system is a relic from a civilization in…

Nasa has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programs, underscoring the intensifying space race between the the US and China.The policy shift…

Rebecca MorelleScience editorNASA/JPLThe rocks are covered with unusual markings that look like leopard spotsUnusual rocks discovered on Mars contain the most tantalising evidence yet of potential…

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…

James “Jim” Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was…

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…

Actions to NASA OICS: • • . • Within 30 days of this directive, the Associate Administrator (AA) for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD)…

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…

Georgina RannardScience correspondentNASAA concept image of NASA’s Fission Surface Power ProjectUS space agency Nasa will fast-track plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by…