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Why Scientists Are Intrigued by Air in NASA’s Mars Sample Tubes

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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet’s surface for future missions to ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 Springs Back to Life

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NASA’s Voyager 1 has overcome a technical setback from November 2023, successfully resuming normal operations and data transmission by May ...

NASA warns that a 98ft plane-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth soon

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NASA’s vigilant eyes in the sky have detected an asteroid, designated as 2024 LB4, that is projected to make a ...

Voyager 1 returning science data again

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WASHINGTON — The four instruments on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft are returning science data for the first time since a ...

NASA Advances Six Pioneering Space Technologies for Tomorrow

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A collage of artist concepts highlighting the novel approaches proposed by the 2024 NIAC Phase II awardees for possible future ...

NASA’s Key to Predicting Sudden Droughts

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NASA scientists have found that satellite-tracked plant fluorescence can predict flash droughts months in advance, aiding mitigation and understanding carbon ...

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Reveals Dynamic Shifts on Europa’s Frozen Surface

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Jupiter’s moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during the mission’s close flyby on September ...

Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower, Red Giant Star Antares, and May Planets

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The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower is an annual celestial event that occurs from late April to mid-May, peaking around May ...

Scientists Gear Up for Solar Storms at Mars

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This coronal mass ejection, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, erupted on the Sun on August 31, 2012, traveling over ...

NASA Receives Laser Communications From 140+ Million Miles Away

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A team prepares NASA’s Psyche spacecraft for launch inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center ...