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As part of NASAs ongoing Inspiration Tour, NASA astronaut Christina Koch will highlight Americas strengths in space exploration and aeronautics innovation at the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Los Angeles Rams game in Philadelp...

NASAs SpaceX Crew-12 mission is ending, with the crew scheduled to return in early October. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut And...

NASA has selected a Planetary Science Institute-led proposal to investigate whether a potentially large underground cave extends beyond the opening of a lunar pit. Such a cave may one day provide a safe haven for astrona...

Lee esta nota de prensa en inglés aquí. La NASA busca líderes para uno de los puestos más prestigiosos de la Tierra en el ámbito de los vuelos espaciales tripulados: director de vuelo en el control de misión del Ce...

Groundbreaking tests at NASAs Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are paving the way for new wind tunnel capabilities for designing the aircraft technologies of the future. In a first-of-its-kind test in NASA L...

NASA is seeking leaders for one of the most esteemed positions on Earth for human spaceflight: flight director in mission control at the agencys Johnson Space Center in Houston. This role is critical to advancing America...

Astronomers analyzed 2,435 galaxies hosting actively feeding black holes using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Among them, they identified 546 "bulgeless" galaxies-systems with little o...

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Astronomers using Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have found that nearby stars darken toward their edges more strongly at near-infrared wavelengths than predicted...

Video: 00:08:40 For ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, her first steps into space were only the beginning.In less than 15 days, she performed three extravehicular activities, or EVAs, spending 19 hours and 42 minutes outside t...

As humanity looks toward future bases on the moon, plant cultivation will be critical for sustaining life there. Plants can provide food, oxygen, medicine, water purification and waste recycling, making them indispensabl...

Image: This false-colour, polarised image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows us the surface of the sea beneath the clouds, as seen by the satellites radar instrument. The sea conditions reflect the strong winds as Typhoon ...

Asteroid sample return missions have brought well preserved samples of the early solar system (that hadnt been roasted in a fireball) back to Earth for the first time. But those samples, like the OSIRIS-REx sample from a...

Neutron stars, the extremely dense remains of massive stars that exploded at the end of their lives, are widely studied astrophysical objects. Some of these stars, known as pulsars, spin and send out beams of radio waves...

What does it take to image hundreds of nebulas? Todays image contains the entire Sharpless Catalog of H II Regions, totaling 313 objects. Zoom in and explore!

After days of torrential rain, the river rose to record-breaking levels in parts of Nepal and India.

Four astronauts pulled up at the International Space Station on Thursday after launching on an eight-hour express that set a U.S. speed record.

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