Spacewalking astronauts plugged a leak in a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday, bringing it another step closer to new life. It was the fourth spacewalk since November for NASA's Andrew Morgan and Italy's Luca...
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NASA's Kepler space telescope is extremely good at spotting the subtle hints of distant exoplanets. It does this by detecting slight drops in the brightness of stars, signaling the presence of one or more planets hanging out in orbit. Kepler has...
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SpaceX completed an explosive test on Sunday that showed its Crew Dragon capsule can whisk astronauts to safety in the event of a rocket failure.
The test was part of NASA's Commercial Crew program, a partnership between the space agency and private...
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Spitzer peered into the depths to lift the dusty veil from some of the universe's most beautiful objects.
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The instrument on the Hale Telescope uses infrared light to investigate exoplanets' atmospheric compositions.
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NASA Administrator Names Marla Pérez-Davis Director Of Glenn Research Center
"NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has named Marla Pérez-Davis director of the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, effective immediately. Pérez-Davis has been...
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Committee Members Introduce NASA Authorization Legislation
"This afternoon, Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairwoman Kendra Horn (D-OK) along with Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Ranking Member Brian Babin (R-TX), Chairwoman...
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Way to boldly go where others have clearly gone before, Trump administration.
Back in 2018, the Trump administration first announced that it was creating a Space Force, an initiative that would break off all space-related matters under the Air Force...
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, asteroid Bennu (101955 Bennu), on December 3rd, 2018. Since then, the spacecraft has been examining the asteroid’s surface, looking for a suitable landing spot to collect a sample. The...
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Special guest Astronaut Garrett Reisman joins Zac and Benjamin to discuss his experience with ‘For All Mankind’ on Apple TV+. Dr. Reisman joined NASA in 1998, traveled to space on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2008 and Space Shuttle...
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An attitude problem sidelined NASA's Mars rover Curiosity recently, but the robot's handlers whipped it back into shape in short order.
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The last time NASA carried out an in-depth study of winter storms in the heavily populated Northeast, the Berlin Wall had just come down and George H.W. Bush occupied the White House.
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Astronomers searching archival data from NASA's Kepler exoplanet hunting mission identified a previously unknown dwarf nova that underwent a super-outburst, brightening by a factor of 1,600 times in less than a day.
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Six-year old Jerry Morrison is obsessed with space — a love that intensifies when talking to his uncle, a NASA engineer. "I learned from you a lot," Morrison told him. "More than I could imagine."(Image credit: Courtesy of the Morrison family)
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NASA is currently monitoring a group of asteroids expected to approach Earth this weekend. According to the agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the approaching asteroids have Earth-intersecting orbits.
The first asteroid that...
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been in orbit around Mars for almost 14 years. It carries a variety of instruments with it, including the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument. That instrument has...
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NASA Names Dennis Andrucyk New Goddard Space Flight Center Director
"NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has named Dennis Andrucyk director of its Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, effective immediately. Andrucyk has been serving...
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NASA’s Curiosity rover, a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of Mars, recently experienced a temporary freeze after it became confused about its own orientation.
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NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins (left) and Meghan McArthur (right) were on hand to help Kelly Marie Tran (center left) and Naomi Ackie (center right) with their astronaut training. (Photo Credit: Norah Moran / NASA)
As the world...
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NASA's Curiosity rover lost its attitude on Monday, Jan. 20. (Photo Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech)
NASA’s Curiosity rover is not moving right now for a good reason…
A Curiosity mission update revealed that the Mars rover lost...
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