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An image of Mars shows rocks and small sand dunes, with a larger mountain range in the background. Two wheel tracks in the foreground show Curiosity rover's path before it captured the image.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover May Have Solved Mars’ Missing Carbonate Mystery

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Science Meets Art: NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Turns the Camera on Science

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Hubble Provides New View of Galactic Favorite

Hubble Provides New View of Galactic Favorite

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NASA’s Hubble Tracks a Roaming Magnetar of Unknown Origin

NASA’s Hubble Tracks a Roaming Magnetar of Unknown Origin

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An image of Mars shows rocks and small sand dunes, with a larger mountain range in the background. Two wheel tracks in the foreground show Curiosity rover's path before it captured the image.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover May Have Solved Mars’ Missing Carbonate Mystery

article 5 days ago

This is the supernova remnant called Cygnus Loop. The data examines this cloud of interstellar material interacting with the superheated, supernova blast wave.

NASA’s Chandra Releases New 3D Models of Cosmic Objects

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A woman scientist with auburn hair and an emerald-green button-down shirt stands inside a lab. She holds a jar with blue gloves and looks down at the dust inside. The jar contains an air filter sample from the International Space Station.

NASA Glenn to Test Air Quality Monitors Aboard Space Station

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Science Meets Art: NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Turns the Camera on Science

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NASA Sees Progress on Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef Design Development

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Images of Earth geography that look like letters, combined to spell out "Earth Day."

Celebrating Earth as Only NASA Can

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Earth Day 2025: Posters and Virtual Backgrounds

Earth Day 2025: Posters and Virtual Backgrounds

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Severe Storms

Severe Storms

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2024 YR4 Facts

2024 YR4 Facts

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Can Solar Wind Make Water on Moon? NASA Experiment Shows Maybe

Can Solar Wind Make Water on Moon? NASA Experiment Shows Maybe

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Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula

Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula

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Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale

Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale

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image of an experiment facility installed in the exterior of the space station

NICER Status Update

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Earth Day 2025: Posters and Virtual Backgrounds

Earth Day 2025: Posters and Virtual Backgrounds

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Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula

Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula

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Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale

Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale

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A Fond Farewell: NASA’s C-130 Begins New Mission in California

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A yellow traffic cone and a black tripod with black testing instruments stands in the foreground on a concrete pad with a desert landscape, power lines, and a black and white aircraft in the background. The aircraft has six black propellors that sit on white arms and connect to the aircraft body, which has black doors and is pod-shaped. The aircraft sits on three small wheels.

NASA Studies Wind Effects and Aircraft Tracking with Joby Aircraft

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A plane begins to ascend from the runway on dim desert morning, heading toward the left of the frame. The wheels of the plane are still dropped and the nose of the plane is pointed upward toward higher skies, its tail featuring the NASA insignia. The helmeted pilot inside is barely visible through the cockpit window. Below a desert landscape with indiscernible buildings are flanked by a hazy mountain range in the distance.

Testing in the Clouds: NASA Flies to Improve Satellite Data

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2024 NASA Power to Explore Contest Winners

2024 NASA Power to Explore Contest Winners

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Exploring the Universe Through Sight, Touch, and Sound

Exploring the Universe Through Sight, Touch, and Sound

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The radio antennas of NASA’s Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex

NASA’s Deep Space Network Starts New Dish, Marks 60 Years in Australia

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Earth Day 2025: Posters and Virtual Backgrounds

Earth Day 2025: Posters and Virtual Backgrounds

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Building for a Better World: Norfolk Students Bring STEM to Life with NASA Partnership

Building for a Better World: Norfolk Students Bring STEM to Life with NASA Partnership

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NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge wrapped up its 31st year April 11-12 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama

NASA Announces 31st Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners

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NASA Aims to Fly First Quantum Sensor for Gravity Measurements

NASA Aims to Fly First Quantum Sensor for Gravity Measurements

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Image show plumes following rocket launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA Invites Virtual Guests to Launch of SpaceX 32nd Resupply Mission

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The S-3B Viking aircraft rests in the NASA Glenn Hangar. The plane is painted gray, black, and white. The wings are folded atop the aircraft.

Going Home: NASA Retires S-3B Viking to POW/MIA Museum

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El X-59 de la NASA completa las pruebas electromagnéticas

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Expedition 70 Flight Engineers (from left) Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Loral O'Hara take photos of the Earth from inside the cupola. Barratt and O’Hara hold large lens cameras, pointing towards the cupola window facing the Earth. Dominick floats behind them also looking up at cupola window. The photo is taken with a fisheye lense causing the photo a circular appearance.

Mejores imágenes de Ciencia en la estación espacial 2024

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La NASA identifica causa de pérdida de material del escudo térmico de Orion de Artemis I

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NASA is making progress on the road to first flight for the agency?s first all-electric X-plane.

X-57 Cruise Motor Controller Testing

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