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A stadium-sized asteroid will fly past Earth on May 9, and you can watch it...
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A stadium-sized asteroid will fly past Earth on May 9, and you can watch it... The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a chance of hitting Earth.
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NASA’s Hubble Pinpoints Roaming Massive Black Hole
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Europe weighs fallout from proposed NASA budget cuts threatening joint missions
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Europe weighs fallout from proposed NASA budget cuts threatening joint missions The European Space Agency is assessing how proposed cuts to NASA's budget could impact it as major cooperative missions face the threat of cancellation.
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NASA Stennis Software is Built for Future Growth
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NASA Stennis Software is Built for Future Growth Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles.
The NASA Data Acquisition System, developed at NASA Stennis, is used in ...
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NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software
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NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles.
NASA software engineer Brandon Carver updates how the main data acquisition software ...
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NASA Stennis Tool Enables Unified Collection of Test Data
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NASA Stennis Tool Enables Unified Collection of Test Data 5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles.
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Earth's skies pulse in sync with the sun's solar flares
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Earth's skies pulse in sync with the sun's solar flares Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.
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'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' returns to theaters later this year for 50th anniversary of...
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'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' returns to theaters later this year for 50th anniversary of... "Shiver with antici… pation!" as those over-sexed aliens from the planet Transexual celebrate their Golden Anniversary in 2025.
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India delays 1st Gaganyaan astronaut launch to 2027
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India delays 1st Gaganyaan astronaut launch to 2027 India now plans to launch astronauts to Earth orbit for the first time no sooner than 2027, after completing a series of uncrewed flight tests slated to begin later this year.
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Our moon may have once been as hellish as Jupiter's super volcanic moon Io
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Our moon may have once been as hellish as Jupiter's super volcanic moon Io The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the ground itself.
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Proba-3 achieves precise formation flying
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Proba-3 achieves precise formation flying For the first time, two spacecraft in orbit were aligned in formation with millimetre precision and maintained their relative position for several hours without any control from the ground.
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Plato grows its many eyes
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Plato grows its many eyes The activities to assemble the European Space Agency’s Plato mission are progressing well now that 24 of the spacecraft’s 26 cameras have been installed. Once in space, Plato will use its many eyes to survey a very large area of ...
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Antarctic glacier caught stealing ice from neighbour
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Antarctic glacier caught stealing ice from neighbour Thanks largely to Copernicus Sentinel-1, scientists have discovered that a glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from neighbouring flows – at a pace never before seen. Until now, researchers believed that this process of ‘ice piracy’ in Antarctica took ...
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'Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun': Elon Musk explains his...
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'Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun': Elon Musk explains his... Elon Musk explained the rather depressing fate of life on Earth to Fox News host Jesse Waters, who had asked him why humanity should go to Mars.
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NASA Statement on Nomination of Matt Anderson for Deputy Administrator
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NASA Statement on Nomination of Matt Anderson for Deputy Administrator President Trump has nominated Matt Anderson to serve as the agency’s deputy administrator.Credit: Photo courtesy of Matt Anderson
Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro issued the following statement regarding the nomination by President Donald Trump of Matt Anderson Wednesday to serve as ...
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MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 take a step closer to space
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MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 take a step closer to space Fresh from the cleanroom in Bremen, Germany, the second of the Meteosat Third Generation satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission have arrived at Cape Canaveral harbour, in the US.
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Caught in the current of the wonderful Whirlpool
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Caught in the current of the wonderful Whirlpool Messier 51, universally known as the Whirlpool Galaxy is one of the most photogenic galaxies of all
The sheer magnificence of Messier 51 is apparent is this stunning image. Image: Bob Fera.
Messier 51 (NGC 5194) in Canes Venatici is the archetypal ...
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A faint star will reveal itself as it throws a hissy-fit
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A faint star will reveal itself as it throws a hissy-fit A spectacular cosmic event is on the horizon: a rare nova explosion so bright that it will be visible to the naked eye.
A red giant and a white dwarf orbiting each other in a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis.
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Saturn’s Rings to “Disappear”
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Saturn’s Rings to “Disappear” Saturn’s iconic rings are set to seemingly vanish from view this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth for the first time since 2009. This rare phenomenon, known as the “ring plane crossing”, will occur on Sunday, March 23, at ...
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ISS On-Orbit Status Report - NASA
ISS Daily Summary Report Discontinued Beginning Monday, July 29th, the IMC Daily Summary will be discontinued.
To learn more about the groundbreaking science and engineering happening daily on the International Space Station, please visit the space station blog at https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/, or browse a variety of space station ...
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