NASA, Uranus and James Webb Space Telescope
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The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to the space agency.
Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in space.
NASA’s Perseverance rover stationed on Mars spotted a dome-shaped rock with a striking resemblance to a helmet used during medieval times. The martian rock, captured by Perseverance’s primary camera on Aug. 5, is pointed at the top and dome-shaped on top of a flared brim. It has a rough, textured surface covered in small bumps.
With NASA eyeing long-duration crewed missions to the moon and beyond in the coming years, it has to be sure that if a medical situation arises, the astronauts are well equipped to deal with it. Currently,
The U.S. wants to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, but the first challenge is finding an ideal spot.
With its two tiny CubeSats, NASA’s PREFIRE mission is capturing invisible heat escaping from Earth, offering clues to how ice, clouds, and storms influence the climate system. The insights could lead to better weather forecasts and a deeper understanding of global change.
NASA’s Artemis campaign is a bold series of missions to take humans back to the moon, and those astronauts will get there thanks to help from rocket engines mad
Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward.
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Space.com on MSN'NASA is science': How real space exploration inspired Moleskine's new NASA-themed notebook collection (interview)
The collection is headlined by the NASA-Inspired Large Ruled Notebook, which has a cover that's textured to look like the lunar surface. It also features a metallic bookmark, collectible NASA stickers, and a bunch of cool moon-themed surprises inside.