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NASA is flying a July mission to rescue its aging Swift space telescope

NASA’s effort to save the Swift space telescope from an uncontrolled reentry has crossed a critical threshold: ground teams ...

NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope

NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

See the space shuttle 'Endeavour' in a unique vertical display before its new exhibition launches at the California Science Center

Fifteen years after its retirement, the Space Shuttle Endeavour is set to dazzle museum spectators like never before. When ...

Want to Live Like a Deep-Space Colonist for a Year? NASA Will Pay You to Do It

If you've ever fancied spending up to a year away from your loved ones and living in extremely close confines with three ...

Would you spend a year pretending to live on Mars? NASA wants volunteers

Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra ...
Scientific American

NASA's exoplanet mission accidentally discovers a world it was never meant to find

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...
Digital Camera World on MSN

These astro photographs come with sound! NASA uses an unusual technique to create music from data

In honor of the Fourth of July, NASA has released a patriotic collection of images that also comes with data-centered audio ...
Scientific American

Will NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopter fleet sink science at the Red Planet?

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...

Scientists have found 99.7% chance of life in this planet and no, it's not Mars

Scientists detected gases on exoplanet K2-18b linked to life on Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope's future results show a ...
Ars Technica

“I’ll buy 10 of those”—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

There are more opportunities to access space than ever, thanks to a bevy of commercial rockets, some with reusable boosters, led by SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9. So why is NASA launching fewer ...

Here's the history of the huge US flag on NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building

The massive American flag on NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building is a patriotic icon, but its 1976 bicentennial origin story ...