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NASA is a proud boomer that loves posting a good photo album. The space agency released 100 of its best 2023 photos on flickr, which go through the exciting highlights of the previous year.
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NASA's chief is worried that China will seize Moon real estate
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NASA’s leader is worried about an international race for lunar real estate, as China prepares for a series of missions to the Moon.
NASA had to put the Hubble Telescope into 'safe mode' because of a glitch
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NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope isn’t doing so well. The observatory has been suffering from a pesky glitch affecting its gyroscope, causing it to suspend its science operations for a second time in less than six months.
The 10 best images of Jupiter and its moons from NASA's Juno probe
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Jupiter and its moons are a diverse and dynamic subdivision of our solar system’s neighborhood, one that NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been visiting since 2016. Besides hosting the system’s largest planet, at over 300 times the mass of our own planet, the Jovian system includes 95 known moons, the largest of which are…
A NASA Mars rover is in a great place to search for signs of life
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Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to “search for potential evidence of past life,” according to the official mission objectives.
NASA will test sunlight-powered space travel after the launch of a solar sail
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A new experimental mission by NASA is now flying in orbit, aiming to use photons from the Sun to propel its way to higher altitudes.
A NASA satellite almost got hit by Russian space junk
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That was a really close one. Further analysis of a near-miss collision between two satellites in space revealed that they came even closer to one another than initially believed, raising more alarm over the growing danger of space debris.
NASA's Voyager 1 was transmitting gibberish for months but now it's making sense again
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The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned usable data for the first time in more than five months, giving hope for the 46-year-old mission to finally be able to resume its normal operations.
Why does NASA want a time zone on the moon?
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NASA has been tasked with determining a standard time zone for the moon, but it's more complicated than you might think.
Check out this cool lava lake on one of Jupiter's moons
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Two recent flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io by NASA’s Juno spacecraft revealed a couple of stunning surprises: a remarkably steep mountain and islands in the middle of a burbling lava lake. The new findings were announced yesterday by Scott Bolton, the principal investigator of the Juno mission, at the European Geophysical…