NASA Stories for 2021

NASA-funded Program Recruited Religious Experts To Predict How Humans May React To Aliens 114
With Its Single 'Eye,' NASA's DART Returns First Images From Space 7
James Webb Space Telescope's Smooth Launch Extended Its Life Expectancy, NASA Says 45
What's Next After the International Space Station? 98
'A Christmas Gift for Humanity' - Cheers Erupt After Webb Telescope Completes Flawless Launch 56
Nasa's X-ray Boom Arm for Black Hole Studies Extends in Orbit 6
After 50 Years, Vacuum-Sealed Container From 1972 Moon Landing Will Finally Be Opened 51
NASA Releases New Photos of Jupiter - and a Recording of Its Moon that Sounds Like R2-D2 23
Astronomers Nervously Counting Down to Christmas Eve Launch of $10B Webb Telescope 63
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Becomes First Spacecraft To 'Touch' the Sun 63
New NASA Tool Helps Visualize Asteroids' Paths Through Solar System 4
NASA's New Sleeping Bags Could Prevent Eyeball 'Squashing' On the ISS 41
NASA's Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Goes Online 11
New NASA Telescope Will Provide X-Ray Views of the Universe 15
International Space Station Fired Its Thrusters Friday To Dodge More Space Debris 13
NASA Awards Blue Origin, Nanoracks, Northrop Grumman Over $400M In Contracts To Avoid Space Station Gap 39
NASA Postpones Spacewalk Citing 'Debris Notification' for ISS 13
Watch NASA Crash a Spacecraft Into An Asteroid 38
An 'Incident' With the James Webb Space Telescope Has Occurred 149
NASA Seeks Ideas For a Nuclear Reactor On the Moon 94
NASA's Moon Landing Will Likely Be Delayed 'Several Years' Beyond 2024, Auditors Say 94
NASA Wants Your Help Improving Perseverance Rover's AI 15
Astronomers Find Nascent Exploding Star, 'Rosetta Stone' of All Supernovas 27
The Moon Will Soon Have Its Own Internet 59
NASA's 'Armageddon'-style Asteroid Deflection Mission Takes Off Next Month 34
Blue Origin 'Gambled' With Its Moon Lander Pricing, NASA Says in Legal Documents 92
Judge Releases Redacted Lunar Lander Lawsuit From Bezos' Blue Origin Against NASA-SpaceX Contract 36
NASA Reviews Private Space Station Proposals, Expects To Save Over $1 Billion Annually After ISS Retires 80
NASA Confirms Thousands of Massive, Ancient Volcanic Eruptions On Mars 49
Perseverance's New Rock Samples Reveal Water Was Present on Mars For a Long Time 17
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed To December 42
ISS Could Be Followed By Commercial Space Stations After 2030, NASA Says 93
Nasa Delays ISS Spacewalk Due To Astronaut's Medical Issue 39
NASA Has a New Challenge To Reaching the Moon by 2024: Its $1 Billion Spacesuit Program 105
Scientists Fine-Tune Odds of Asteroid Bennu Hitting Earth 49
NASA's Mars Rover Fails to Collect Its First Sample 82
Government Denies Blue Origin's Challenge To NASA's Lunar Lander Program 67
50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon 32
Bezos Offers To Cover $2 Billion In NASA Costs In Exchange For Astronaut Lunar Lander Contract 195
NASA Taps SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket To Launch Jupiter Moon Mission 44
Virtual Comic-Con Includes Trailers For 'Blade Runner' Series, 'Dune' Movie - and NASA Panels 71
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson Not Yet Astronauts, US Says 80
After Repair, Hubble Captures Images of 'Rarely Observed' Colliding Galaxies 21
NASA Revives Ailing Hubble Space Telescope With Switch To Backup Computer 60
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Passes Key Review Ahead of Fall Launch 25
NASA's Mars Helicopter Breaks Record In Challenging, Nerve-Wracking Flight 27
Kepler Telescope Glimpses Population of Free-Floating Planets 44
NASA Astronauts Used CRISPR Gene Editing Technology For the First Time in Space 9
Still-Troubled Hubble Space Telescope Once Snapped a Red, White, and Blue Image 12
Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Completes 8th Flight, Gets Software Updates 11
NASA Can't Figure Out What's Causing Computer Issues On The Telescope 84
Major Ocean-Observing Satellite Starts Providing Science Data 23
NASA Struggles to Fix Failure of Hubble Space Telescope's 1980s Computer 111
Earth is Trapping 'Unprecedented' Amount of Heat, NASA Says 225
What Lies Beneath Jupiter's Pretty Clouds 56
NASA Finally Shows Off Assembled 'Space Launch System' Megarocket 77
NASA's Juno To Get a Close Look At Jupiter's Moon Ganymede 17
Why NASA Is Blasting Water Bears And Bobtail Squid Into Space 34
NASA Plans Blockbuster Return To Venus 61
Webb Telescope Launch Date Slips Again 80
NASA's Mars Helicopter Goes On 'Stressful' Wild Flight After Malfunction 49
Samples from Curiosity Mars Rover Suggest Possibility of Past Organic Matter 32
First Fully Civilian Flight To Space Station Moves Forward With NASA Contract 28
NASA Webb Telescope Undergoes Final Tests 47
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads For Earth With Asteroid Sample 24
New Audio From Mars Captures Sounds of Ingenuity Helicopter's Flight 15
NASA Suspends SpaceX's $2.9 Billion Moon Lander Contract After Rivals Protest 88
NASA Mars Helicopter Goes Farther and Faster For Dramatic Fourth Flight 12
Bezos' Blue Origin Protests NASA Awarding Astronaut Lunar Lander Contract To Musk's SpaceX 162
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Successfully Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight 29
Astronauts Successfully Delivered to the International Space Station by SpaceX 35
SpaceX Successfully Launches Astronauts With a Re-Used Dragon Spacecraft for the First Time 63
NASA's Mars Helicopter Makes Second Flight 42
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet 44
Flying On Mars Fueled With Open-Source Software 44
NASA Successfully Flies Small Helicopter On Mars 49
NASA Begins First Attempt of 'Ingenuity' Helicopter's Flight on Mars 92
Elon Musk's SpaceX Wins Contract To Develop Spacecraft To Land Astronauts on the Moon 119
NASA's Mars Helicopter Flight Postponed to No Earlier than This Wednesday 16
NASA's Mars Helicopter Survives First Cold Martian Night On Its Own 34
NASA Has a Plan To Punch An Asteroid With a Spaceship To Protect Earth 116
'Wright Brothers Moment': NASA To Fly Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Early April 19
The Myth of the Mutiny in Space 9
2.9-Ton Battery Pallet Becomes Largest Mass Ever Discharged From Space Station 59
Biden To Tap Bill Nelson To Lead NASA 44
NASA To Test Rocket In The Next Step Towards Returning To The Moon 52
Startup Debuts Airless Bicycle Tire Based On NASA Rover Tech 121
Remembering Allan McDonald the Engineer Who Said 'No' To the Challenger Launch 79
NASA's Perseverance Rover Sends Stunning Images of Mars 37
The Perseverance Rover CPU Has Similar Specs To a Clamshell Ibook From 2001 109
The Mars Perseverance Rover's Parachute Contained a Secret Message 14
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet 56
NASA's Perseverance Rover Successfully Lands on Mars 61
Watch Live as Perseverance, NASA's Newest Rover, Lands on Mars 79
NASA Will Listen for Thumps From Its Rover's Arrival on Mars 40
Earth To Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk To You Again 70
Spacewalkers Complete Battery Replacement Work, Install New Cameras on Space Station 11
Boeing Curbed Rocket Test Over Hydraulics Issue, NASA Says 60
After 2 Years on Mars, NASA's Digger Declared Dead 33
'Major Component Malfunction' Ends SLS Rocket Test Early. NASA Considers New Timeline 112
2020 Was Second-Hottest Year On Record, NOAA Says 105
NASA Spacecraft Discovers the Universe is Less Crowded Than We Thought 37
InSight and Juno Keep on Trucking 20