NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 26.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023.
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NASA Invites Students to Join the Artemis Generation at SciFest Virtual Event
Venture with NASA to discover the future of flight, understand the portrait of planet Earth, and take the next steps in exploration at SciFest, the virtual STEM expo from the USA Science and Engineering Festival
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NASA Missions Spy First Possible ‘Survivor’ Planet Hugging White Dwarf Star
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope has reported what may be the first intact planet found closely orbiting a white dwarf, the dense leftover of a Sun-like star, only 40% larger than Earth.
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Solar Cycle 25 Is Here. NASA, NOAA Scientists Explain What That Means
Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media event on Tuesday, experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discussed their analysis and predictions about the new solar cycle – and how the coming upswing in space weather will impact our lives and technology on Earth, as well as astronauts in space.
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NASA, NOAA to Discuss Solar Cycle Prediction During Media Teleconference
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will discuss predictions for the upcoming solar cycle during a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 15. Tracking the solar cycle is a key part of better understanding the Sun and mitigating its impacts on human technology and infrastructure.
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How Far Can the Hubble Telescope See?
New Discoveries Discount What We Thought We Knew About Space.
NASA claims the Hubble Telescope has seen galaxies trillions of miles away and travels at about five miles per second! For years we’ve discussed the concept of light years as we’ve boasted Hubble’s orbit in ‘space’ at about 550 km or 342 miles above Earth’s surface, however, according to a PBS article shown here, neither astronauts nor Hubble have ever left Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA Invites Public to Be Its Guests to Celebrate Historic ‘Launch America’
NASA is inviting the public to help celebrate a historic milestone in human spaceflight as it prepares for #LaunchAmerica – the first flight into orbit of American astronauts on American rockets from American soil since the end of the space shuttle era in 2011.
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