NASA Stories for 2020

Will America's Next President Change Its Space Program? 134
How To See Jupiter and Saturn Align On Monday Night 34
The 'Great' Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn 62
The Orion Spacecraft Is Now 15 Years Old and Has Flown Into Space Just Once 185
Voyager Probes Detect New Kind of 'Electron Burst' in Interstellar Space 24
Component Failure Found in Crew Capsule NASA Hoped to Launch in 2021 146
Jeff Bezos Shares Blue Origin Engine Test Footage 43
'Mysterious Object Hurtling Towards Earth' is a 1966 Booster Rocket 31
Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn't Pitch Black After All 88
Texas Astronomers Revive Idea For 'Ultimately Large Telescope' On the Moon 80
4 Astronauts Aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon Successfully Dock With Space Station 67
SpaceX Launches a Falcon 9 Rocket Carrying a Crew Dragon Capsule With Four Astronauts 124
NASA Administrator Says He Plans To Leave Position Under Biden Administration 197
Looking For Another Earth? Here Are 300 Million, Maybe 42
Former Astronaut Wins US Senate Seat Once Held By Republican John McCain 82
NASA Objects To New Mega-Constellation, Citing Risk of 'Catastrophic Collision' 39
NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Receives First Commands Since March 61
Officials Raise Concerns About Software for the Most Powerful Rocket Ever Flown 71
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Successfully Stows Sample of Asteroid Bennu 24
NASA Discovers a Rare Metal Asteroid That's Worth $10,000 Quadrillion 192
NASA's Perseverance Rover Is Midway To Mars 16
New Nuclear Engine Concept Could Help Realize 3-Month Trips To Mars 131
NASA Confirms Water Molecules On Moon 28
NASA's Probe Sampled Too Much From Asteroid Bennu and Now It's Leaking 45
NASA To Announce New Science Results About Moon 59
NASA's OSIRIS-REX Makes Historic Touchdown On Asteroid Bennu To Collect Rock Samples 17
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Will Land On an Asteroid To Bring Home Rocks and Dust 23
NASA and Nokia To Install 4G on Lunar Surface 65
Voyager Spacecraft Detect An Increase In the Density of Space Outside the Solar System 88
NASA Asks: What Would You Pack For a Trip to the Moon? 111
NASA Funds Nokia Plan To Provide Cellular Service On Moon 65
NASA Loads 14 Companies With $370M For 'Tipping Point' Technologies 11
A NASA Mission Is About To Capture Carbon-Rich Dust From a Former Water World 9
Safety Panel Has 'Great Concern' About NASA Plans To Test Moon Mission Software 42
Microsoft and NASA Create a Space-Themed Site Teaching Python Programming 24
NASA Tests New $23 Million Titanium Space Toilet 49
NASA Reveals How Astronauts Will Vote From Space 50
Astronomers Discover Possible 60s-Era Moon Rocket Booster Heading Back To Earth 66
NASA Launches New $23 Million Toilet to International Space Station 33
NASA Lays Out $28 Billion Plan To Land First Woman on the Moon 185
NASA To Film an Estee Lauder Ad In Space As the ISS Opens For Business 53
ESA Awards $153 Million Contract For Its First Planetary Defense Mission 20
New Hubble Observations Suggest Gap in Current Dark Matter Models 27
NASA Wants To Buy Moon Dirt From Private Companies 33
NASA Tests a Booster That Produces 3 Million Pounds of Thrust 120
Texas A&M Professor Accused of Secretly Collaborating With China Amid NASA Work 52
Boeing and NASA Target December For Second Try at Uncrewed Orbital Demonstration Flight 25
Breakthrough AI Identifies 50 New Planets From Old NASA Data 44
Will More Powerful Processors Super-Charge NASA's Mars Rovers? 27
Slick New 'Dream Chaser' Space Plane Set For Launch in 2021 38
Volunteers Spot Almost 100 Cold Brown Dwarfs Near Our Sun 36
NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly In Earth's Magnetic Field 59
Planet Ceres Is An 'Ocean World' With Sea Water Beneath Surface, Mission Finds 90
NASA Ditching 'Insensitive' Nicknames for Cosmic Objects 184
NASA Researchers Demonstrate the Ability To Fuse Atoms Inside Room-Temperature Metals 107
Astronauts Made Prank Calls From SpaceX Crew Dragon 78
NASA Astronauts Fire Deorbiting Burn. Watch Splashdown Back to Earth 69
NASA Astronauts Are Undocking SpaceX's Crew Dragon from ISS, Returning to Earth 29
NASA Launches New Rover, Perseverance, To Look For Ancient Life on Red Planet 42
Self-Replicating Chernobyl Mold Tested on ISS as a Space Radiation Shield 130
The North Poles of Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Probed by NASA Spacecraft 17
'Solar Orbiter' Delivers Closest Pictures Ever Taken of the Sun 13
NASA Delays James Webb Space Telescope To October 2021 21
James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Yet Again 55
Halfway Through ISS Mission, NASA Astronauts Anticipate Their Ride Back to Earth 21
Mars Is About To Have Its 'Wright Brothers Moment' 80
Washington Post: A Top NASA Official Improperly Contacted Boeing 34
Help a Mars Rover's AI Learn to Tell Rocks From Dirt 18
Are Planets With Oceans Common In the Galaxy? It's Likely, NASA Scientists Find 55
'Looking at an Alien Sky': New Horizons Probe Sees Stars From a New View 56
A Spaceflight Engineer Recovers the Lost Software For Apollo 10's Lunar Module 30
SpaceX vs. Space Shuttle: NASA's Falcon 9 Astronauts Compare the Differences 61
NASA Selects Astrobotic To Fly Water-Hunting Rover to the Moon 16
James Webb Space Telescope Will 'Absolutely' Not Launch In March 56
Why Did It Take NASA a Decade To Get Back Into Space? 150
Watch NASA Astronauts on SpaceX Crew Dragon Docking with ISS 55
Watch Live: SpaceX Launches NASA Astronauts to ISS 116
Watch SpaceX Launch People To Space For the First Time Live [Updated] 85
NASA and SpaceX Confirm SpaceX's First Ever Astronaut Launch is a 'Go' 112
After 19 Years, the ISS Receives Its Very Last NASA Science Rack 19
It's Official: SpaceX Is a 'Go' To Launch NASA Astronauts On Crew Dragon Spaceship 20
How Do Astronauts Escape When a Space Launch Goes Wrong? 60
Meet the First NASA Astronauts SpaceX Will Launch To Orbit 23
NASA's Human Spaceflight Chief Resigns a Week Before Historic SpaceX Launch 47
Is NASA Actually Working On a Warp Drive? 121
SpaceX Releases Crew Dragon Simulator To Show What It's Like To Dock With the ISS 44
Scientists Get Their Best-Ever Look At Jupiter's Atmosphere and Storms 13
NASA Names Companies To Develop Human Landers For Artemis Moon Missions 39
SpaceX and NASA Break Down What Their Historic First Astronaut Mission Will Look Like 19
FDA Authorizes NASA-Developed Ventilator For Use In COVID-19 Treatment 26
USGS Releases First Complete Geologic Map of the Moon 23
NASA's Plan To Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab 20
NASA, SpaceX Set Date For Historic Launch of Astronauts To ISS 34
Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planet Found Hidden In Early NASA Kepler Data 71
NASA Satellite Data Show 30% Drop In Air Pollution Over Northeast America 72
Remembering Apollo 13 at 50 34
NASA Contemplates Turning a Moon Crater Into a Giant, Powerful Telescope 59
NASA Astronaut's Estranged Wife Charged With Lying About Space Crime Allegation 114
Trump Signs Executive Order To Support Moon Mining, Tap Asteroid Resources 218
Modern Meteorology Was Born 60 Years Ago Today 19
Is Uranus Losing Its Atmosphere? 49
NASA Picks SpaceX To Fly Cargo To Moon-Orbiting Gateway Space Station 23
SpaceX Encounters First Launch Delay Due To Coronavirus 9
Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden Passes Away 21
At Long Last, NASA's Probe Finally Digs in On Mars 19
NASA To Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS, But Forgot About Egress Costs Before Lift-Off 121
Can Astronauts Use GPS To Navigate On the Moon? 99
NASA's SLS Moon Rocket Is 44 Percent Over Budget and 3 Years Behind Schedule, Report Says 106
Rocket Lab Gets NASA Certification For Official Smallsat Launches 7
NASA Wants You To Help Track Satellite Light Pollution 16
Europe and Russia's Robotic Mission To Mars Is Delayed Until 2022 14
NASA Declares Starliner Mishap a 'High Visibility Close Call' 71
When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won't Be Able to Answer 59
SpaceX Wins NASA Contract to Launch a Spacecraft to an Asteroid Beyond Mars 41
Mars Is a Seismically Active World, First Results From NASA's InSight Lander Reveal 13
Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA 58
NASA is Looking for New Astronauts 54
Former NASA Official William Gerstenmaier Joins SpaceX 17
'Pale Blue Dot' Revisited 25
Scientists Observe Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Buzz Past Earth With Its Own Moon 24
NASA Puts a Price On a 2024 Moon Landing: $35 Billion 184
NASA's Viral 'Standing Broom' Trick Has Nothing To Do With Earth's Gravitational Pull 43
NASA Moves Forward With International Space Station 'Hotel' 90
NASA Brings Voyager 2 Fully Back Online, 11.5 Billion Miles From Earth 56
NASA Safety Panel Calls For Reviews After Second Starliner Software Problem 83
NASA Sets 2022 Launch For Air Quality Sensor That Will Provide Hourly Updates Across North America 40
Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights 23
NASA is Trying To Save Voyager 2 After a Power Glitch Shut Down Its Instruments 39
Help NASA Choose the Name For Its Next Mars Rover 80
NASA's Curiosity Rover Recovers From Glitch on Mars 27
Mars Rover Temporarily Froze In Place Following Software Error 45
'Watch SpaceX Blow Up a Falcon 9 Rocket in a Safety Test Sunday' 69
Climate Models Are Getting Future Warming Projections 164
2019 Was Hotter Than Any Year in the 20th Century 185
After Mishap with Boeing Spacecraft, NASA Faces a Dilemma 132
NASA's SLS Heavy-Lift Moon Rocket Core Leaves For Testing 98
NASA Has Discovered an Earth-Sized World in a Star's Habitable Zone 59
17-Year-Old Discovers a New Planet On the Third Day of His NASA Internship 30
After Two Years NASA Loses Contact With Its Briefcase-Sized, Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite 30
NASA Astronaut's Blood Clot In Space Gets Treated By Doctor On Earth 12