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The first lunar landing mission to launch from the United States since 1972 has successfully lifted off carrying an assortment of payloads, including cremated human remains and dog hair. Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One contains 265 capsules with human remains, including the creator and several members of the...
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NASA is preparing to rollout its supersonic X-59 airplane, and it wants everyone to watch. The space agency is rolling out the red, white, and blue carpet for anyone that wants a virtual VIP seat to the ceremony in the California desert (snacks not provided).
The X-59 supersonic aircraft was moved to the paint barn...
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft made the closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon lo of any spacecraft in over 20 years, while taking incredible new images of the volcanic moon. The orbiter came within nearly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the surface of what NASA refers to as the “most volcanic world in our solar system.”
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NASA turned two twelve-hour black and white videos from its Mars Curiosity rover into time-lapse videos of what a Martian day looks like. The two videos were taken by Curiosity’s Hazard-Avoidance Cameras, or Hazcams.
The two black and white videos of the 4,002nd Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity’s mission each last...
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Sierra Space has delivered its Dream Chaser spaceplane, Tenacity, to NASA for some hardcore training. The uncrewed spaceplane is scheduled to launch a demonstration mission in 2024 to the orbital complex of NASA’s commercial resupply services.
The Dream Chaser, built by Sierra Space in Louisville, Colorado...
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NASA plans on getting a bird's-eye view of asteroid Apophis, also known as the “God of Chaos,” as it makes an exceptionally close approach to Earth in 2029. The spacecraft that will have a front-row view is the same one that delivered a sample of asteroid Bennu back to Earth earlier this year.
OSIRIS-REx (Origins...
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and several other telescopes are getting into the holiday spirit with two mind-blowing images from space. While images of NGC 2264 and UGC 8091 may only appear to some as tokens of holiday spirit, astronomers are seeking much more information from them.
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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment beamed a video featuring Taters the cat from 18.6 million miles away. The record-setting ultra-high definition streaming video was part of a NASA technology demonstration on December 11, 2023.
The DSOC experiment is NASA’s first demonstration of optical...
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) set its sights on Uranus and captured a brilliant image of a storm brewing on the icy giant. Along with the storms, Webb also captured the planet’s rings, moons, and other atmospheric features.
In the 1980s, Voyager 2 could only image the distant planet as what NASA refers...
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A mystery involving missing tomatoes onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been solved. The yearlong tomato conundrum began after NASA astronaut Frank Rubio lost track of two tomatoes grown in space while harvesting for the eXposed Root On-Orbit Test System (XROOTS).
According to NASA, the XROOTS...
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NASA was able to capture a striking image of a massive solar flare being emitted from the Sun on Thursday, which was so powerful that it caused a radio blackout in parts of the Americas. The flare, classified as an X2.8 flare, is the most powerful recorded since 2017.
According to reports, the explosion more than...
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NASA is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its Orion spacecraft making a spectacular reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. The feat was part of the Artemis 1 mission that completed a 1.4 million-mile journey around the Moon.
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission was the first in a series of missions that is aimed at putting...
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NASA’s interstellar Voyage 1 spacecraft has encountered a glitch and needs repaired from 15 billion miles away. For the time being, the spacecraft cannot send any legible science or engineering data back to Earth.
NASA says that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled farther than any other craft to date. The space...
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NASA’s Webb telescope captured the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A lighting up deep space like a Christmas tree ornament. The image is part of the 2023 Holidays at the White House and debuted by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden in the first-ever White House Advent Calendar.
The image captured by the James Webb Space...
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The US Space Force (USSF) is about to launch its X-37B reusable and unmanned mini space shuttle on a secret mission. Mission specifics are sparse, but many believe that it represents the US military's warning to (primarily) Russian and Chinese rivals of its intention of achieving space superiority.
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The month of December comes with celestial treats of all kinds, including the gorgeous Geminid meteor shower. The Geminids produce the year’s most reliable meteor shower that takes place annually each December.
While some sky watchers may be awaiting on the rare asteroid eclipse that will see asteroid Leona move in...
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Astronomers have identified an object in deep space captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as being an elusive dusty star-forming galaxy. Object AzTECC71 first appeared as a blob from ground-based telescopes before later vanishing completely from Hubble’s view.
The image captured by Webb is not the...
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A new image captured by NASA’s Odyssey orbiter highlights a view of Mars that will help scientists gain new insights into the Martian atmosphere. The panoramic view was stitched together using 10 images, creating the view of the Martian landscapes below clouds and dust.
NASA engineers spent three months preparing...
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured an awe-inspiring image of a Herbig-Haro object in the northern constellation of Perseus. Herbig-Haro objects are luminous patches of nebulosity associated with protostars and form when stellar winds or hot gas ejected by a newborn star collide with the gas and dust...
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NASA delivered a teaspoon size sample of the asteroid Bennu to be studied in the labs at the Natural History Museum in London. NASA describes the 500-meter (0.3 miles) wide asteroid as being the most dangerous rock in the solar system because it has a chance of hitting Earth within the next 300 years.
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As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and later onto Mars, researchers say males making the long journey in space may run into a problem. A new study has found that deep space missions where astronauts exposed to high levels of galactic cosmic radiation (GCR) and microgravity might be highly subject to...
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NASA caught a frickin’ laser beam from 10 million miles away and the space agency finds it groovy baby. No, the near-infrared laser beam was not from Dr. Evil’s deep space lair, but rather from NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment.
During its journey to the main asteroid belt between Mars and...
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