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World’s largest solar telescope takes first ultra-detailed image of the sun
The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...
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NASA engineer Ed Smylie, who led carbon dioxide fix on Apollo 13, dies at 95
It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, ...
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NASA preparing for steep workforce cuts but hopeful it can avoid more layoffs
The agency is still planning for lunar missions and to keep all of its centers open, though it will likely do so with fewer ...
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Watch Trump's pick for NASA chief Jared Isaacman return to Capitol Hill for Senate vote on April 30
Billionaire philanthropist and private astronaut Jared Isaacman is headed back to Washington D.C. as the Senate Committee on ...
'I feel like a little kid': NASA astronaut, 70, reflects on his 220-day mission
Veteran astronaut Don Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of research and captured over half a million photos during his ISS ...
NASA's oldest active astronaut on 220-day mission: 'I feel like a little kid'
Veteran astronaut Don Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of research and captured over half a million photos during his ISS ...
Asteroid Discovery Overturns Long-Held Belief
Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...
These are the biggest 'anti-environment' policies enacted in Trump's 1st 100 days, according to experts
President Donald Trump has enacted a sweeping number of policies that could harm the environment and hamper goals for ...
To dumbly go where no space budget has gone before
Potential Trump administration funding cuts at NASA would take a blowtorch to space science and American leadership in space.
Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen
Another update from Firefly early Tuesday afternoon confirmed the launch failed. The company said the rocket "experienced a ...
NASA’s First 100 Days Under Trump: Mars Missions, Moon Landings, and Space Diplomacy
In just 100 days under the Trump-Vance administration, NASA has rocketed ahead with an ambitious new space agenda. From the safe return of astronauts and new space station crew launches to ...
NASA’s oldest astronaut felt the decades melt away in space before returning on his 70th birthday
Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with ...