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 ...
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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 ...

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 ...

NASA expands Moon Base science program with new research awards

The Moon Base initiative is NASA’s effort to establish infrastructure near the moon’s south pole that would support ...

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

NASA wants to set fire to the moon – no, really. If conducted, the experiment would be the first time humanity has set fire ...

You can spend a year in a simulated space habitat for NASA. Here's how

Think you have what it takes to live in a Mars and moon simulation for a year? NASA may want to select you as a volunteer.

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 ...

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 ...

Latest Florida space news: NASA moon base, Thunderbirds, Amazon satellites

Get the latest on NASA's moon base, upcoming launches and Vehicle Assembly Building history in 321 Launch, FLORIDA TODAY's ...
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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 ...

NASA Rushes to Rescue a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

Without a rescue mission, NASA’s Swift Observatory, which studies some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, will ...

NASA’s risky bid to save Swift telescope before solar drag pulls it into Earth's atmosphere

NASA is preparing for a rescue that sounds more like a stunt than routine mission control: send a robot into orbit, find an ...