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NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara to Discuss Six Month International Space Station Mission

After spending six-and-a-half-months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara will participate in a news conference at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, April 15, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. […]

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NASA Hubble Telescope Peers at Pair of Interacting Galaxies 160 Million Light-Years Away

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and NGC 5994 (its smaller companion, in the lower left of the image). […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA Highlights the Gateway Space Station’s HALO Module

The Gateway space station’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module, one of two of Gateway’s habitation elements where astronauts will live, conduct science, and prepare for lunar surface missions, is one step closer to launch following welding completion in Turin, Italy. […]

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NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return Via Soyuz from Six-Month Research Mission Aboard Space Station

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara returned to Earth after a six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station on Saturday, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya. […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA Astronauts Will Protect Their Eyes During Solar Eclipse on Monday

While visiting NASA Headquarters in Washington on March 19, 2024, astronauts Stephen Bowen, left, Frank Rubio, Warren Hoburg, and UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, right, posed for a photo wearing solar viewing glasses. […]

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NASA Leadership Spotlights Space Sustainability at 39th Annual Space Symposium

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Jim Free are scheduled to speak at the Space Foundation’s 39th Space Symposium from Tuesday, April 9 through Thursday, April 11 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. […]

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WATCH: NASA’s NEOWISE Extends Legacy With Decade of Near-Earth Object Data

NASA’s NEOWISE mission has released its 10th year of infrared data the latest in a unique long-duration survey that captures how celestial objects change over long periods. […]

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Astronauts Aboard International Space Station Have Unique Opportunity to Observe Solar Eclipse on April 8

While millions of people on Earth experience the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, the space station crew will have the opportunity to see it from 250 miles above our planet. Above, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station wear eclipse glasses in this image from March 26. […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA Hubble Telescope Finds a Field of Stars 162,000 Light-Years Away

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651. Like another recent globular cluster image, NGC 1651 is about 162,000 light-years away in the largest and brightest of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. […]

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WATCH: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Searches for New Clues About Mars’ Ancient Water

NASA’s Curiosity rover has begun exploring a new region of Mars, one that could reveal more about when liquid water disappeared once and for all from the Red Planet’s surface. […]

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NASA: Tips on How to Watch Upcoming Total Solar Eclipse With NASA from Anywhere

On Monday, April 8, most of North America will have the chance to see the Moon pass in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse. NASA is inviting the public to participate in in-person events, opportunities to do NASA science, and multiple ways to watch online.
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NASA’s ‘ULLYSES’ Research with the Hubble Space Telescope Enters New Chapter

In the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over three years. […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA CADRE Rovers’ Test Drive at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mars Yard

Two full-scale development model rovers that are part of NASA’s CADRE technology demonstration drive in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in August 2023. […]

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NASA Hubble Telescope Views a Galaxy Under Pressure 52 Million Light-Years from Earth

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The dwarf galaxy is one of many forcing its way through the comparatively dense gas in the massive Virgo cluster of galaxies. […]

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NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Mission Launched March 21 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to Study Cosmic Blasts

NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft travels aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off at 4:55 p.m. EDT March 21, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. […]

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA Hubble Space Telescope Spots Spider Galaxy 30 Million Light-Years Away

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the gauzy-looking celestial body UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy about 30 million light-years away. […]

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NASA, Government Agencies to Brief Plans for Upcoming April Total Solar Eclipse

Millions of people across North America will experience a rare celestial sight on Monday, April 8: a total solar eclipse. NASA will host a media briefing with other government agencies at 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 26, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. […]

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NASA, SpaceX Sends Science, Hardware During 30th Resupply Launch from Cape Canaveral

NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission launched at 4:55 p.m. EDT, March 21, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. […]

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