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Venus is so hot it can melt a spacecraft in hours. But that’s not stopping researchers from looking into an ambitious idea to bring a piece of Venus back to Earth.

NASA undertakes high-risk, high-reward missions to discover revolutionary ways of doing new science.

While several robotic missions have landed on Mars, NASA has explored only one percent of the Martian surface.

Crew-12 is safely aboard the International Space Station.

If the sky is clear, you could see a blood Moon in the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 3rd.

Sending humans to and from Mars is impossible without a reliable source of oxygen.

Testing for the spacesuits that will be worn by NASA’s Artemis III crew is underway.

This is National Engineers Week. And no one understands how engineering transforms our future better than NASA.

TEMPO has a new trick. It can see in the dark.

In an area defined by stark Arctic expanses and rugged terrain, life persists. Even a glacier found here pulses like a heart.

The same coating that protected the shuttle is used to create cold-weather gear that emits body heat back to the wearer.

Astronauts need hearty nutrients to maintain a healthy diet in space.

Closely contested Olympic events rely on an accurate measure of time where the difference between gold and silver can be a fraction of a second. Accurate timekeeping is critical to NASA as well.

NASA uses spectroscopy to determine what planets, and their atmospheres, are made of by analyzing how light interacts with matter.

What do Olympic athletes and objects in space have in common? Both are matter in motion.

Greek artist Ioannis Michaloudis credits his success to NASA, claiming he is what he is because of Stardust.

NASA is back for seconds with a new food system design challenge.

Recovering from a broken bone can be a long, painful experience, even life-threatening for the elderly. But imagine what might happen to an astronaut thousands of miles from medical care.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced a renewed partnership to safely harness nuclear power in space.

NASA technology brings the golden age of exploration to Earth.