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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 ...

NASA wants to light a fire on the moon – but it’s for science

NASA wants to light a fire on the moon – but it’s for science - The experiment could launch as soon as later this year ...

NASA just launched a bold mission to rescue a falling space telescope before it crashes to Earth

The Swift Observatory is slated to enter Earth's atmosphere later this year, but the Katalyst Space spacecraft aims to boost ...

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 ...

Put your name aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

An illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The NASA observatory was designed to settle essential questions in ...
Phys.org

NASA's planned budget cuts could set back space science, but show how to future-proof the agency

The 2026 NASA budget proposal would slash around US$6 billion (£4.4 billion) in funding. This is a huge reduction, amounting to around 25% of recent NASA budgets. The savings would mainly come from ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

Nasa Chief Jared Isaacman says the new space race has already begun, and this time it is with China in the race to land on Moon by 2030

The competition to return humans to the Moon is no longer being spoken about as a distant ambition. According to Nasa ...

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 ...