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NASA Spent $450 Million on a Moon Rover. Now It’s Canceling the Mission.

Delays and concerns about NASA’s future budgets doomed the VIPER mission, which aimed to search for ice near the moon’s…

A Reporter Who Sees Meaning in the Stars

As a science reporter, Katrina Miller covers the cosmos, innovations in physics, space exploration and more.

SpaceX Rocket Fails in Orbit

The malfunction, the first since 2016, ended a streak of more than 300 successful launches for the Falcon 9 rocket.

Watch These Supernovas in (Time-Lapse) Motion

For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar explosions.

NASA Mission to Europa Imperiled by Chips Aboard Spacecraft

Transistors on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, scheduled to launch in October, may not be able to endure the harsh radiation…

Early Humans Left Africa Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

Scientists have found evidence of several waves of migration by looking at the genetic signatures of human interbreeding with Neanderthals.

A Mammoth First: 52,000-Year-Old DNA, in 3-D

In 2018 an international team of scientists — from labs in Houston, Copenhagen, Barcelona and beyond — got their hands…

NASA Says No Plan to Use SpaceX to Rescue Boeing Starliner Astronauts

In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confidence in…

To Protect Redwoods, They Lit a Fire

Beneath a cerulean sky and a forest of the largest trees on Earth, the chairman of the Tübatulabal Tribe, Robert…

Fearsome Sharks of Today Evolved When Ancient Oceans Got Hot

More than 100 million years ago, scientists say, warming seas and reduced oxygen may have sent some sharks higher into…

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