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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

Moon (Getty Images/MASTER)

NASA instructed to make a Moon clock

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

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An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 space probe flying past Saturn in the outer solar system, circa 1980. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

Efforts to revive NASA’s Voyager 1 probe

A worker wears a clean room suit as they walk past a propulsion component of the Europa Clipper spacecraft while it is prepared for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa inside a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California on April 11, 2023. - In October 2024, NASA will launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft that will study Jupiter's moon and its underground oceans. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) (PATRICK T. FALLON / Contributor (Getty Images))

NASA lays off 530 workers at JPL

This illustration shows a concept for one of two NASA helicopters that would provide a secondary capability to pick up additional samples stashed on the surface on Mars by the Perseverance rover. (NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA's next generation space helicopters

In this handout provided by NASA, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, October 13, 2023 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images)

Space missions slated for launch in 2024

Ali M. Bramson - The Conversation

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Tomato (Getty Images/Glowimages)

The NASA space tomato has been found!

Astronaut James H Newman and Carl E Waltz, mission specialists, practice space walking techniques and evaluate tools to be used on the first Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission scheduled for later in the year, 16th September 1993. (Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

On almost breaking the Hubble telescope

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia))

James Webb reveals new Milky Way details

This image shows the “moonrise” of the satellite as it emerges from behind asteroid Dinkinesh as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI), one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby of the asteroid binary. (NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOAO)

NASA finds a surprise asteroid

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Variety of fruits and vegetables (Getty Images/Tanja Ivanova)

Students experiment with "space veggies"

Kim Johnson - The Conversation

The supermoon rises behind clouds above an apartment block on April 07, 2020 in Manchester, United Kingdom. (Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Moon 40 million years older: analysis

In this handout image provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour orbit Earth during Endeavour's final sortie on May 23, 2011 in Space. (Paolo Nespoli - ESA/NASA via Getty Images)

NASA's plan to deorbit the ISS explained

In this handout provided by NASA, Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on September 27, 2023. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

New record for longest US spaceflight

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Asteroid approaching earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

Bennu asteroid may strike Earth in 2182

American astronaut Bruce McCandless II photographed from the Space Shuttle Challenger during the first untethered EVA, made possible by his nitrogen jet propelled backpack (Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU), 7th February 1984. (NASA/Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

How space can harm the human body

Rachael Seidler - The Conversation

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters is seen in Washington D.C., United States on September 15, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

NASA: No evidence UFOs are aliens, sorry

Chris Impey - The Conversation

Psyche asteroid in space (Getty Images/24K-Production/NASA)

What NASA’s Psyche mission may reveal

Jim Bell - The Conversation

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This artist's concept shows a face-on view of the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)

New X-ray telescope to be launched

NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 1, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

An astrophysicist on 65 years of NASA

Stephen G. Alexander - The Conversation

Tabular iceberg floats in a stormy green sea, Southern Ocean, Antarctica (Getty Images/Jeff Miller)

Greener oceans due to climate change

James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

An astronomer on James Webb's first year

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