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NASA's Lucy probe will fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday
The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...
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NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science
Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...
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States bid to host a revamped NASA headquarters
More states are lining up in a bid to host NASA’s headquarters, but the prize they seek may turn out to be smaller than they ...
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NASA's sun-studying PUNCH mission captures its 1st-light images. Everything looks great so far
The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...
Mysterious Skull-Shaped Rock Found On Mars, NASA Uncertain About Its Origin
Though most of the region surrounding the rock is light-colored and dusty, Skull Hill is dark, angular, and covered in tiny ...
NASA's Glenn to test lunar air quality monitors aboard space station
As NASA prepares to return to the moon, studying astronaut health and safety is a top priority. Scientists monitor and ...
Here’s what a Beatles song and a fossil have to do with a NASA mission to study asteroids
Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...
The Prototype: NASA Budget Cuts Threaten Scientific Discovery
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...