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In the galaxy GSN 069, a star has survived a close encounter with a black hole, ending up in orbit around it. Material pulled off the star turned it from a red giant into a white dwarf, and in about a trillion years it may actually become a planet.

To help cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, NASA engineers have developed an inexpensive and easy-to-build high-pressure ventilator. The Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally (VITAL) prototype was completed in only 37 days at jPL.

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 30th launch anniversary with the release of a breathtakingly colorful portrait of star forming Nebulae - collectively nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef" - located in a galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.

Drawing on data from satellites and Apollo-era missions, scientists at the US Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute have pieced together what they say is the first comprehensive geological map of the Moon.

Exoplanet discoveries are a dime a dozen – but we don’t see many being de-discovered. Now, an exoplanet observed by Hubble for 10 years has apparently vanished without a trace, leading astronomers to suggest it may never have been a planet at all.

The Spitzer Space Telescope was decommissioned on Jan. 30 this year, after more than 16 years in operation. Now NASA has released the observatory’s last-ever mosaic image, giving us a glimpse into how it works and revealing new features of a nebula.

In the first manned mission to launch from American soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA has announced the Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission will lift off on May 27 with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx unmanned probe has ticked off another key milestone on its epic journey, successfully completing a first practice run of a complex sampling sequence in close proximity to its target asteroid’s surface.

In what are described as the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun’s atmosphere, scientists have detected previously unsighted threads of magnetic plasma woven throughout, offering new clues as to the makeup of its active outer layers.

A review of early data returned by NASA's Kepler mission has revealed one of the most Earth-like exoplanet discovered so far. The new planet is slightly larger than ours, is estimated to have a similar temperature, and orbits in the habitable zone.

NASA is exploring the potential of building an enormous radio telescope on the far side of the Moon in a huge impact crater. The telescope’s reflector would be comprised of a 1-km diameter wire mesh, pulled into place by wall-climbing robots.

This weekend marks 50 years since the launch of Apollo 13. Only seven months after Apollo 11, the third manned lunar landing attempt was already seen as routine, but it would become one of the most remarkable stories of survival in history.