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Celebrating the wonder of space flight, Snoopy, the longest-running giant character balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, will return to the sky again this year decked out in astronaut gear.

Nearly thirty-seven years after the tragic loss, an artifact from the Space Shuttle Challenger has been discovered at the bottom of the sea.

The Enceladus Vent Explorer, or EVE, would dive deep into a steep crevass where water-ice jets burst from the ocean below.

This newly developed hardware could support astronaut health on Artemis missions, or provide spin-off benefits here on Earth, with just a drop of blood.

This technology demonstration will use lasers to search for water ice inside the darkest craters at the Moon’s South Pole.

On future missions, astronauts may encounter at least three different gravity fields: weightlessness while traveling in space, the gravity of another planet or moon, and Earth’s gravity once they return home.

For half a century, this remarkable man has led one of NASA’s historic missions.

The Veggie Lab will soon have a new crop to test.

Each year, on November 11, Americans pause to celebrate Veterans Day.

NASA researchers and their industry partners have developed a remote-sensing mapping system to help explore previously uncharted areas.

Once CatSat reaches orbit, compressed gas and a proprietary feed system are used to inflate a spherical antenna made of Mylar.

Instead of fire, the exhaust produced by electric propulsion is a glowing greenish-blue trail, reminiscent of a science fiction movie.

NASA’s analog missions are field tests in locations that have physical similarities to extreme space environments.

After journeying all summer, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in a region of Mount Sharp enriched with salty minerals, which scientists hope will provide tantalizing clues as to how and why the Red Planet’s climate changed from Earth-like to the frozen desert it is today.

NASA rebooted a unique training mission for astronauts to practice rover operations for future Artemis missions.

November marks the official end of the hurricane season, but are we seeing hurricanes that are getting stronger during the season?

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a stamp celebrating NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope!

Since 2003, astronomers have tried to hear the sounds this black hole is creating.

If you really want to make your skin crawl this Halloween, visit NASA’s Solar System website and take a Haunted Hayride through the Sinister Solar System.

These exoplanets could be perfect homes for some of our most terrifying Halloween monsters.