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NASA releases atmospheric simulation of this year's hurricane season

Cool and pretty at the same time!? NASA gets the best things!

NASA releases creepy space sounds for Halloween

Ever wondered how Halloween sounds like in space?

NASA discovers Mars has a magnetic tail twisted by solar wind

Mars has an invisible magnetic tail and it might contribute to Martian atmospheric loss.

Researchers believe they've found a great place for a moonbase -- thanks to a volcano

Building a moonbase in a lava tube. Doesn't that sound awesome?

Astronaut shows what fidget spinners can do in outer space

NASA just wins, can everyone stop with the fidget spinner videos now?

You can now use Google Maps to explore other moons and planets

You can explore the solar system from the comfort of your home.

NASA astronauts start spacewalk -- with live footage

You can watch it live here.

NASA and Russia to work on new Lunar Space Station

It's good to see two old rivals work together.

Voyager-1 spacecraft: 40 years of history and interstellar flight

Despite traveling more than ten billion miles in four decades, Voyager-1 is still at it.

Hewlett Packard supercomputer to be delivered to the ISS next Monday

Time to dust off that old Skyrim dvd.

The Grand Finale: NASA plans to see Cassini off with a trail of fire as it crashes into Saturn

The Cassini spacecraft will get a burial place fit for such a long-trekked explorer: Saturn.

NASA: We just can't afford to land humans on Mars

Oh boy...

NASA releases dazzling images of Jupiter's Red Spot, makes them open for citizen scientists

It's awesome, it's very useful, and it's open for everyone to use.

NASA wants to celebrate its 100-year-anniversary -- with you!

Happy bday, NASA!

Gecko-inspired 'Velcro' could help cleanup our growing space junk problem

Inspired by nature, scientists tackle a sticky problem.

After record number of applications, NASA announces the future generation of astronauts

Take a good look at these people. A few years from now, they will be conducting research off the Earth and in deep space.

Citizen scientists discover new cold star close to our solar system

In this day and age, everyone can be a scientist.

NASA will explore an asteroid worth 10,000 $quadrillion -- four years sooner than expected

The scientific value might be just as high.

Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale join the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame

The best of the best.

Stunning image of the Crab Nebula put together from five telescopes' worth of data

Breathtaking.

Want to work on NASA's software and get paid for it? You'll love this challenge

Enter the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge.

Cassini heard 'the big empty' when it dived through Saturn and its rings

The song before the 'grand finale'.

Despite spending $200 million, NASA still doesn't have a new space suit and that could delay an important deep space mission

Internal auditors weren't happy with the way NASA is making new space suits.

NASA is designing small away-from-home-ecosystems to make space exploration sustainable

Recycle everything!!!

All the ingredients for alien life: NASA finds hydrogen spewing out of Saturn's icy moon, likely propelled from hydro-thermal vents

Both Enceladus and Europa seem capable of supporting alien life, according to a major NASA announcement.

NASA to make tantalizing announcement about water worlds later today

NASA is doing the old 'announcement of an announcement,' and we're absolutely falling for it.

The Martian atmosphere might be cruel and inhospitable but at least it has metal ions

Studying Mars' ionosphere and its metal ions might explain how the planet lost most of its atmosphere (and liquid water).

This year's 22 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts are out of this world

It's incredible what humans can do with some funding.

Adorable NASA robocube will float and do the housekeeping aboard the ISS

More like robocute, am I right?

Curiosity's wheel grousers show damage after five years of off-roading on Mars

:(

The Origins of Water Ice on Mercury

Who would expect water on the nearest planet to the Sun?

NASA plans to use repellent coatings to coax liquids into flowing even when there is no "down"

Not a problem many would even think possible -- but a real one nonetheless.

Magnets anchored on Mars' orbit would make the planet a second Earth, NASA says

Shields up!

Twitterers compete with suggestions for newly discovered exoplanets' names -- hilarity ensues

Anyone care to wager which name popped up instantly?

Tomorrow, NASA will announce major "discovery beyond the solar system" during press conference

It's press only, but NASA made sure everyone can follow the talks and even get a question in.

The first ever supernova-in-progress seen shows we don't quite yet understand them

A really lucky find.

NASA's study of the Louisiana Deltas yields fantastic images of new land being born

Always down for some eye candy.

NASA's twin astronaut study shows living in space can change our biology

An unusual, one of a kind study reveals the strange influence living in space has on our genes.

Wearing NASA's new Starliner space suit is reason enough to become an astronaut

Guaranteed to maintain awesomeness even at 0 atm.

New NASA phone app is basically 'Plant Sims in Space'

Take a trip on the ISS and grow some plants.

NASA's 'Mars Explorers Wanted' posters will set you packing for space

Where's my toothbrush?

Space loops: NASA shares its GIF collection

A new reaction GIF archive, courtesy of NASA.

Startling NASA photo reveals 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctic Ice Shelf

It looks like we're moving closer to a dramatic break-up.

NASA plans to build robots that explore frozen worlds from metallic glass so they don't shatter

"Cold enough to shatter robots" is pretty cold in my book.

NASA tells us which plants to buy for cleaner air -- in 100% infographic format

Plants > Chemicals.

NASA's morphing wing will make airplanes smoother, more efficient

Taking a cue from nature.

NASA's pumpkin competition absolutely smashes everything else

It's out of this world.

Amazing photos of Exp 49 astronauts touching down on Earth after 115 days in space

One skilled photographer shows what coming to Earth feels like.

ISS crew just planted their third lettuce crop, hope to make it a permanent farm

Lettuce have a feast, then!

NASA reports damage from Hurricane Matthew

NASA itself feared the worst from the hurricane, but thankfully, the damage done at Cape Canaveral seems minor.