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NASA Mission Captures Eerie New View of The Moon And Sun
A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...
ASU camera checks temps on Mars, but its real mission is a search for life above Jupiter
A camera built at Arizona State University is on its way to check for signs of life above Jupiter, but it detoured to Mars ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
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NASA Discovers an Unknown Celestial Body Beyond Neptune
NASA has confirmed the discovery of a mysterious new planet beyond Neptune, shaking up our understanding of the outer reaches ...
NASA's Dragonfly passes key test. A look at its upcoming mission to Saturn's moon
NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...
New NASA mission captures a gorgeous cosmic rainbow
NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby ...
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Trump's proposed 2026 NASA budget cuts will cede our space 'position of leadership to other nations', top scientists say
The chairs of several NASA analysis and assessment groups (AGs) issued a statement in response to the Trump administration's ...
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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long considered fully defunct. This remarkable feat ...
Trump’s budget cuts could halt decades of progress in space science
On April 25, 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget announced a plan that would slash NASA’s science program ...
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Mesmerizing Cosmic Dust Rainbow Caught By NASA's PUNCH Mission
The mission has a Narrow Field Imager (NFI) and three Wide Field Imagers (WFIs). The NFI snaps pictures of the corona around ...
NASA just performed a 'miracle save' for its farthest spacecraft
NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...
UK scientists to help NASA in search for 'alien life' beyond Earth
The UK Space Agency aims to contribute to NASA's space telescope searching for 'alien life beyond our Solar System' ...