Space News
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Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface
NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university student teams to virtually map and explore using a digital…
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NASA Welcomes Norway as 55th Nation to Sign Artemis Accords
Credit: NASA Following an international signing ceremony Thursday, NASA congratulated Norway on becoming the latest country to join the Artemis Accords, committing to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of…
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NASA Satellite Images Could Provide Early Volcano Warnings
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Chaitén Volcano in southern Chile erupted on May 2, 2008 for the first time inn 9,000 years. NASA satellites…
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Let’s Bake a Cosmic Cake!
6 min read Let’s Bake a Cosmic Cake! To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — NASA’s first chief astronomer and the namesake for…
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NASA Selects Student Teams for Drone Hurricane Response and Cybersecurity Research
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Getty Images NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed…
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Deimos Before Dawn
NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd…
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NASA, French SWOT Satellite Offers Big View of Small Ocean Features
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Sunlight reflects off the ocean surface near Norfolk, Virginia, in this 1991 space shuttle image, highlighting swirling patterns created…
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Space Cloud Watch Needs Your Photos of Night-Shining Clouds
2 min read Space Cloud Watch Needs Your Photos of Night-Shining Clouds Noctilucent Clouds observed from Bozeman, MT on 16 July 2009 at 4:29 MDT. The Space Cloud Watch project…
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Meet the Space Ops Team: Christine Braden
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Christine Braden values new experiences that broaden her perspective; a mindset that has guided her 26-year career at NASA’s…
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Spacewalk Research and Technology
4 Min Read Spacewalk Research and Technology NASA astronaut Anne McClain prepares spacesuits ahead of the May 2025 spacewalk. Credits: NASA Science in Space: May Crew members on the International…