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January 9, 2024 | 2:12 PM

Fuel leak forces Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic to abandon moon landing attempt

By Marcia Dunn/The Associated Press
Updated: January 9, 2024 | 2:11 pm

Lunar lander from Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic rockets toward moon with commercial deliveries

By Marcia Dunn/The Associated Press
August 11, 2023 | 9:05 AM

The Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here’s how to watch

By Nell Greenfieldbocye/NPR

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January 17, 2023 | 9:12 AM

How Pennsylvania companies are trying to win the new space race

By An-Li Herring/WESA
December 27, 2022 | 1:04 PM

First Contact: An Alien Encounter from the BBC

How might humanity react to an encounter with an alien object?

By Christina Zeiders
November 20, 2022 | 8:28 AM

The first satellites launched by Uganda and Zimbabwe aim to improve life on the ground

Uganda and Zimbabwe join an ever growing number of African countries that are building up their space technology capabilities

By Max Barnhart/NPR
September 28, 2022 | 7:14 AM

This is what NASA’s spacecraft saw just seconds before slamming into an asteroid

It’s the high point of a NASA project known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, aka DART.

By Rachel Treisman/NPR
September 2, 2022 | 4:28 PM

NASA Artemis rocket rescheduled to launch Saturday

According to NASA, the Artemis mission is to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. 

By Aniya Faulcon
July 14, 2022 | 11:06 AM

A buck supermoon rose on Wednesday. Here’s what it looked like around the world

The third supermoon of 2022 rose on Wednesday.

By Wynne Davis/NPR
July 12, 2022 | 5:29 AM

NASA’s James Webb telescope reveals the universe as we’ve never seen it before

What appears to be tiny specks in space are actually galaxies — billions of years old.

By Joe Palca and Jaclyn Diaz/NPR
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