Space News
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NASA’s Fermi Detects Surprise Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy
5 min read NASA’s Fermi Detects Surprise Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy This artist’s concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the…
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NASA Scientists Discover a Novel Galactic ‘Fossil’
5 min read NASA Scientists Discover a Novel Galactic ‘Fossil’ Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have discovered X-ray activity that sheds light on the evolution…
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NASA Selects Crew for Next Simulated Mars Mission
NASA selected a crew of four for the agency’s next Human Exploration Research Analog mission, a simulated mission to Mars. From left are Abhishek Bhagat, Susan Hilbig, Kamak Ebadi, and…
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This US-Indian Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Changing Frozen Regions
Satellite imagery shows a portion of East Antarctica on Jan. 9, 2022, before icebergs calved off the Glenzer and Conger glaciers. NISAR will observe nearly all of the planet’s land…
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NASA’s Webb Discovers Dusty ‘Cat’s Tail’ in Beta Pictoris System
6 Min Read NASA’s Webb Discovers Dusty ‘Cat’s Tail’ in Beta Pictoris System This image from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows the star system Beta Pictoris. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA,…
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Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’
4 min read Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’ Like Kepler-10 b, illustrated above, the exoplanet HD 63433 d is a small, rocky planet in a tight orbit…
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Artemis Media Resources
Media Contacts NASA Headquarters: Kathryn Hambleton, Rachel Kraft, Vanessa Lloyd, 202-358-1100 Latest Updates: Artemis blog Briefings Artemis Update (Jan 9, 2024) Related Resources Artemis WHAT/WHY/HOWArtemis Accords Program and Project ResourcesEducation and STEM Engagement Broadcast…
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Orbital-1 Launch’s 10th Anniversary
NASA/Bill Ingalls An Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Thursday, January 9, 2014. The Orbital-1…
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Early Stage Innovations (ESI) 2023
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Back to ESI Home Advancing Radiation-Hardened Photon Counting Sensor Technologies Karl Berggren Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation hardness study…
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Continuous Bending-mode Elastocaloric Composite Refrigeration System for Compact, Lightweight, High-Efficiency Cooling
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Traditional elastocaloric refrigeration systems are based on uniaxial compression of the elastocaloric…