In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And the work to ensure that this first-of-its-kind project …
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NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauA new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along for …
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Final Steps Underway for NASA’s First Crewed Artemis Moon Mission
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauAs NASA moves closer to launch of the Artemis II test flight, the agency soon will roll its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad …
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NASA to Provide Media with International Space Station Update Today
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauNASA will host a live news conference at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday from the agency’s headquarters in Washington to discuss the International Space Station and its crew. On Jan. …
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Supernova Remnant Video From NASA’s Chandra Is Decades in Making
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauA new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, named …
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NASA’s Second ESCAPADE Spacecraft Completes Trajectory Maneuver
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauOn Jan. 6, the mission operations team for NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) successfully completed the second trajectory correction maneuver for one of the two spacecraft, …
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Space Station Research Informs New FDA-Approved Cancer Therapy
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauNASA opens the International Space Station for scientists and researchers, inviting them to use the benefits of microgravity for commercial and public research, technology demonstrations, and more. Today, a portion …
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Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauAfter combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample …
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NASA Hubble Helps Detect ‘Wake’ of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauUsing new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, on the gas around Betelgeuse. The research, from scientists at …
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Life Science Fills Day as Expedition 74 Nears Thursday Spacewalk
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauExercise research and biomedical science promoting healthy humans on and off Earth topped the schedule aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. Meanwhile, two NASA astronauts are preparing for the year’s first …