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Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump on May 30, 2025 inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Musk’s moon mission divides Trump world

Sophia Tesfaye
Jim Lovell died this week at age 97. The former astronaut is most well-known as the cool-headed commander of the storied and problematic Apollo 13 mission. He was a lifelong promoter of space exploration. (Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images)

Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell dies at age 97

CK Smith
Universe starscape 3D illustration with colorful soundwave. (Getty Images / EzumeImages)

Space is noisy. We just can't hear it

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Render of Planet Earth. (DrPixel / Getty Images)

NASA closer to predicting space weather

Elizabeth Howell
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NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore (L) and Pilot Suni Williams walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building on June 05, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How space impacts health of astronauts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk (R) arrives to the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (SHAWN THEW/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

SpaceX ISS astronaut recovery postponed

Alex Galbraith
SpaceX, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks with other delegates during day one of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 01, 2023 in Bletchley, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Musk calls astronaut r-word in tirade

Griffin Eckstein
Highly detailed crescent Moon (Getty Images/Javier Zayas Photography)

NASA awards $24 million for moon bases

Matthew Rozsa
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Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA probe touches Sun’s atmosphere

Matthew Rozsa
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams (KSC/NASA/Francisco Martin)

NASA astronauts stranded until March

Matthew Rozsa
This artist’s concept shows interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) after its discovery in 2017. (NASA European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser)

NASA detects more dark comets

Matthew Rozsa
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Europa Clipper spacecraft aboard launches from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on October 14, 2024. The spacecraft Clipper will soon launch for Jupiter's moon Europa, one of dozens of moons orbiting the Solar System's biggest planet and the nearest spot in our celestial neighborhood that could offer a perch for life. It should reach orbit around Jupiter and Europa in 2031, where it will begin a detailed study of the moon scientists believe is covered in frozen water, which could provide a similar habitat to Earth. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

NASA launches spacecraft toward Jupiter

Alex Galbraith
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A member of the U.S. Capitol Police carries a Congressional Gold Medal for Katherine Johnson during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s," often referred to as the "hidden figures" of the space race. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Congress honors NASA's Hidden Figures

Griffin Eckstein
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore (L) and Pilot Suni Williams walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building on June 05, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Astronauts may not come home till 2025

Troy Farah
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft launched atop its Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex in Florida on September 5, 1977. (NASA)

Behind Voyager 1's near-death experience

Matthew Rozsa
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams (KSC/NASA/Francisco Martin)

NASA must analyze Starliner failures

Rae Hodge
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink internet satellites into space soars across the sky after sunset above the Pacific Ocean after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024, as seen from San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

SpaceX pulls off a double-header

Rae Hodge
Mars Sample Return Concept Illustration (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Shaky future of Mars sample return

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Artist’s concept of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Saturn’s moon Titan. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA officially headed to Saturn moon

Rae Hodge
Jupiter (Getty Images/martin_adams2000)

Lake of lava found on Jupiter's moon Io

Matthew Rozsa
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U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hold a joint press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

First non-American to walk on the Moon

Rae Hodge
Moon (Getty Images/MASTER)

NASA instructed to make a Moon clock

Rae Hodge
An illustration of the Earth Return Orbiter bringing samples from Mars back to Earth. After capturing the samples in orbit around Mars, the orbiter would return to Earth and release its Earth Entry System, which is depicted here in the distance. (NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC)

Is it worth returning samples from Mars?

Sarah Scoles - Undark
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center with the Intuitive Machines' Nova-C moon lander mission, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 15, 2024. (GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Moon landing is a first in 50 years

Matthew Rozsa
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