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What You Need To Know About the March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse

What You Need To Know About the March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse

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NASA CubeSat Finds New Radiation Belts After May 2024 Solar Storm

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Hubble Goes Supernova Hunting

Hubble Goes Supernova Hunting

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En Route to Jupiter, NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Images of Stars

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 4, 2021

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Station Science Top News: Jan. 31, 2025

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VIPER Announcement for Partnership Proposals

VIPER Announcement for Partnership Proposals

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Newly Minted Ph.D. Studies Phytoplankton with NASA’s FjordPhyto Project

Newly Minted Ph.D. Studies Phytoplankton with NASA’s FjordPhyto Project

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A topographic map of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (Sept. 18–Oct. 17, 2024) shows landslide velocity in cm/week, with red areas moving fastest (≥10 cm/week). The slide extends beyond the 2007 boundary toward Abalone Cove. An arrow marks the landslide direction southward.

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How New NASA, India Earth Satellite NISAR Will See Earth

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2024 YR4

2024 YR4

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February’s Night Sky Notes: How Can You Help Curb Light Pollution?

February’s Night Sky Notes: How Can You Help Curb Light Pollution?

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What You Need To Know About the March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse

What You Need To Know About the March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse

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$A sea of colorful stars and galaxies appear to swim in the vast blackness of space around a hazy halo at centre stage. In the middle of the image, the fuzzy-looking bulb of light in a warm shade of yellow extends around a small bright spot, nestled within a thin light circle that appears to be drawn closely around it. As we follow the central halo’s rim outwards, its brightness dims and blends smoothly into its surroundings. Here, extended discs of shades ranging from a warm purple to golden yellow, and piercing dots of light with sharp diffraction spikes are spread evenly across the image.$

Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring in Our Cosmic Backyard

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Hubble Goes Supernova Hunting

Hubble Goes Supernova Hunting

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Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy with Nine Rings

Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy with Nine Rings

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Newly Minted Ph.D. Studies Phytoplankton with NASA’s FjordPhyto Project

Newly Minted Ph.D. Studies Phytoplankton with NASA’s FjordPhyto Project

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$A sea of colorful stars and galaxies appear to swim in the vast blackness of space around a hazy halo at centre stage. In the middle of the image, the fuzzy-looking bulb of light in a warm shade of yellow extends around a small bright spot, nestled within a thin light circle that appears to be drawn closely around it. As we follow the central halo’s rim outwards, its brightness dims and blends smoothly into its surroundings. Here, extended discs of shades ranging from a warm purple to golden yellow, and piercing dots of light with sharp diffraction spikes are spread evenly across the image.$

Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring in Our Cosmic Backyard

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2024 YR4

2024 YR4

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Wind Over Its Wing: NASA’s X-66 Model Tests Airflow

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Motor Control Software

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Motor Control Software Publications

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NASA Artemis II crew members are assisted by U.S. Navy personnel as they exit a mockup of the Orion spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean during Underway Recovery Test 11 (URT-11) on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. URT-11 is the eleventh in a series of Artemis recovery tests, and the first time NASA and its partners put their Artemis II recovery procedures to the test with the astronauts.

More Than 400 Lives Saved with NASA’s Search and Rescue Tech in 2024

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Funding for Events

Funding for Events

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Field testing was performed at NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, prior to liftoff. To do this, the 3D-printed magneto-electric dipole antenna was mounted to a ladder.

NASA 3D-Printed Antenna Takes Additive Manufacturing to New Heights

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An cartoon illustration of a solar flare that has a blast of light and energy from the Sun’s surface.

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Amendment 111: F.5 FINESST SMD’s Graduate Student Research opportunity: Updated Text and Charts and Reviewers Sought

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ARMD Solicitations (USRC Proposal Updates)

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NASA’s Cloud-based Confluence Software Helps Hydrologists Study Rivers on a Global Scale

NASA’s Cloud-based Confluence Software Helps Hydrologists Study Rivers on a Global Scale

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What’s Up: February 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What’s Up: February 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

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NASA Artemis II crew members are assisted by U.S. Navy personnel as they exit a mockup of the Orion spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean during Underway Recovery Test 11 (URT-11) on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. URT-11 is the eleventh in a series of Artemis recovery tests, and the first time NASA and its partners put their Artemis II recovery procedures to the test with the astronauts.

More Than 400 Lives Saved with NASA’s Search and Rescue Tech in 2024

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La NASA identifica causa de pérdida de material del escudo térmico de Orion de Artemis I

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NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague pedals on the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation and Stabilization (CEVIS), an exercise cycle located aboard the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module. CEVIS provides aerobic and cardiovascular conditioning through recumbent (leaning back position) or upright cycling activities.

Preguntas frecuentes: La verdadera historia del cuidado de la salud de los astronautas en el espacio

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View from outside a large run stall. The 100-foot-long X-59 sits in the run stall with the engine and the rest of the back of the aircraft sitting outside the run stall’s open bay door.

El X-59 enciende su motor por primera vez rumbo al despegue

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An Optical Transceiver Assembly Part of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)

Optical Transceiver of DSOC

An Optical Transceiver Assembly Part of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)

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