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Fresh off its historic mission to collect samples from an asteroid in deep space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has its newest assignment: studying another asteroid during its close encounter with Earth. OSIRIS-REx ended its seven-year, 4 billion-mile round-trip journey to collect samples from the space rock Bennu in September. But instead …

One day, we might see glowing cities of glass scattered across the Moon’s surface, shining softly under Earth’s light. NASA is teaming up with Skyeports, a California-based company, to explore how lunar dust could be turned into massive glass spheres strong enough to live in. These futuristic, transparent habitats could …