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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 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 ...
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 ...
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See NASA’s spectacular ‘cosmic fireworks’ from deep space

NASA commemorated America’s 250th birthday with a “fireworks display” – featuring the colours of the cosmos. The space agency ...

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 ...

NASA marks America's 250th birthday with ‘cosmic fireworks' gallery

The space agency curated 13 images, ranging from 1990 to 2025, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on the Fourth of July. The ...

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 ...
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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 crater existing Red Planet research missions.

Daring rescue mission launches to save a 3,200-pound NASA observatory from an untimely end

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of ...
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 ...