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NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo. The agency’s new era of spaceflight comes with a few parts from its past, specifically three rocket engines that have previously flown on space shuttle missions.

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who famously stayed in space for an extended nine-month visit after problems with an experimental capsule, has retired after 27 years, NASA said Tuesday

It was quite a leap. Conspiracy theorists are being brought back down to Earth after NASA scientists debunked a wild claim that the space agency was hiding knowledge about an event that could result in millions of deaths and injuries.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured mesmerizing new images of the Helix Nebula. With the use of Webb’s NIRCAm, pillars of what look like comets with long tails line the inner region of expanding gas inside the nebula, NASA said. It almost looks similar to the zoomed-in iris of the human eye.

NASA has cut funding for key independent advisory groups that help guide the agency’s scientific research, citing cost savings.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appeared to suggest that space shuttle Discovery may not be relocated to Houston's Johnson Space Center in Texas.

NASA observed its annual Day of Remembrance Thursday to commemorate the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 and space shuttle Challenger and space shuttle Columbia accidents.