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Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated Jan. 13, 2025, to reflect the correct affiliation for Maria Banks, CLPS project scientist,…
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LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA…
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Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support…
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Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil…
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A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the…
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Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or “retroreflectors,” on the Moon to accurately reflect laser light beamed at them from…
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The Moon may look like barren rock, but it’s actually covered in a layer of gravel, pebbles, and dust collectively…
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NASA has taken a big step forward in how engineers will assemble and stack future SLS (Space Launch System) rockets…
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Earth’s nearest neighboring body in the solar system is its Moon, yet to date humans have physically explored just 5%…
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Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be…
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Since antiquity, wreaths have symbolized the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. It is fitting then that one of the…
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In this image from Dec. 11, 2024, the 212-foot-tall SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is lowered into High Bay…
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NASA has selected FedSync-BFS, LLC of Alexandria, Virginia, to provide administrative services for multiple NASA centers. The Multi-Center Administrative Support…
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NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket core stage is vertical in High Bay 2 on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024,…
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Even matter ejected by black holes can run into objects in the dark. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have…
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NASA has selected Nova Space Solutions, LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, to provide operations, services, maintenance, and infrastructure support for NASA’s…
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NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole…
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SERVIR, NASA’s flagship partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a new regional center, or hub, in…