Space News
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Eclipses Near and Far
On April 8, 2024, North America will witness its last total solar eclipse for more than twenty years. Other parts of the world will experience the rare celestial event in…
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The Marshall Star for April 3, 2024
23 Min Read The Marshall Star for April 3, 2024 Huntsville, Marshall Preparing to Celebrate Total Solar Eclipse By Celine Smith On April 8 between 1 and 3 p.m., the…
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NASA Selects Companies to Advance Moon Mobility for Artemis Missions
An artist’s concept design of NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle. NASA NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to advance capabilities for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) that…
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Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes
5 min read Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes The April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will produce stunning views across North America. While anyone along…
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Carving a Path
NASA/Woody Hoburg These aren’t highways in this picture taken on Aug. 15, 2023; they’re paths carved by glaciers as they move through the Karakoram mountain range north of the Himalayas.…
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NASA Receives 13 Nominations for the 28th Annual Webby Awards
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work “to…
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Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars
The 21st rock core captured by NASA’s Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The…
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How NASA Spotted El Niño Changing the Saltiness of Coastal Waters
Rivers can flush rainwater over hundreds of miles to the sea, changing the makeup of coastal waters in ways that scientists are still discovering. In this satellite image from December…
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NASA Invites Media to Annual FIRST Robotics Competition in Rocket City
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Students from the Power Struck Girls Team 5965 – an all-girls FIRST Robotics team from the Academy of Our…
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65 Years Ago: NASA Selects America’s First Astronauts
On Nov. 5, 1958, NASA, newly established to lead America’s civilian space program, formally established the Space Task Group (STG) at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to implement…