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New NASA team dedicated to finding aliens

  A new NASA research team will be devoted to finding life beyond Earth launched this week in Silicon Valley and will seek to find concrete answers on how life began on Earth and where it could exist elsewhere. The “Center for Life Detection Science”...

NASA Launch Could Be Colorful Light Show for Viewers

As dawn is about to break on Sunday, June 11, those living along the East Coast from New York City to North Carolina could be treated to a spectacular multi-colored atmospheric light show courtesy of NASA. That’s when the space agency intends its attempt its...

Ridiculous History: 5 of NASA’s Greatest Pranks

On any successful space mission, the crew’s morale is at the top of the list of priorities. After all, the final frontier can be one high-stress workplace. So it’s no wonder that, in the 59 years since it was first established, the National Aeronautics and...

Are there military space stations out there?

The idea of space bases piloted by secret military operatives sounds like something out of the latest bestselling thriller. Yet just a few decades ago, such military space stations weren’t so far from reality. In the 1950s and 60s, gove­rnment officials were looking to space...

5 Post-shuttle NASA Programs

By the time Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down after its final voyage in July 2011, bringing an end to NASA’s 30-year-long space shuttle program, a major shift in the nation’s strategy for space exploration was already underway. NASA’s new plan involves using the fast-developing, private...

How NASA Planetary Protection Works

n 1972, the Apollo 16 mission returned to Earth with 731 rock and soil samples taken from the lunar central highlands, which they eventually sent to labs around the world. One of those labs was buried beneath Area 51, the top-secret military installation located in...