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A year-end recap of 2025 in space, covering NASA leadership changes, space policy, major missions, scientific discoveries and key events across orbit and beyond.

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon. It is ...

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The Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT), initially planned for eight days, experienced multiple technical malfunctions (helium leaks and thruster failures), necessitating a significant mission ...

A supermassive mystery lurks at the center of the Milky Way. Supermassive black holes are gigantic ruptures in space-time that sit in the middle of many galaxies, periodically sucking in matter before ...

A Smithsonian historian chronicles the struggle to relieve oneself in space. July 12, 2013— -- "Do it in the suit." According to Tom Wolfe's book "The Right Stuff," that's what mission control ...

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J eff Bezos’ Blue Origin has announced the participants on its next space tourist flight, the 37th launch for the New Shepard rocket configuration, and one crew member is of particular note. Engineer ...