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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Takes a Last Look at Mysterious Sulfur

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Hubble Takes a Look at Tangled Galaxies

Hubble Takes a Look at Tangled Galaxies

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NASA’s EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil

NASA’s EMIT Will Explore Diverse Science Questions on Extended Mission

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An artist’s concept of SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) on the Moon. NASA is working with SpaceX to develop the Starship HLS to carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface and back for Artemis III and Artemis IV. Starship HLS is roughly 50 meters tall, or about the length of an Olympic swimming pool.

NASA, SpaceX Illustrate Key Moments of Artemis Lunar Lander Mission

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Station Science Top News: Nov. 15, 2024

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iss070e113015 (March 10, 2024) -- NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jeanette Epps is pictured floating in microgravity aboard the International Space Station.

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5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun

5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun

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NASA’s Brad Doorn Brings Farm Belt Wisdom to Space-Age Agriculture

NASA’s Brad Doorn Brings Farm Belt Wisdom to Space-Age Agriculture

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NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels

NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels

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5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun

5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun

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A prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons

NASA Ocean World Explorers Have to Swim Before They Can Fly

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Making Mars’ Moons: Supercomputers Offer ‘Disruptive’ New Explanation

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The guitar shape in the “Guitar Nebula” comes from bubbles blown by particles ejected from the pulsar through a steady wind as it moves through space. Images from Chandra taken in 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2021 have been combined with a single image in optical light from Palomar. X-rays from Chandra show a filament of energetic matter and antimatter particles, about two light-years long, blasting away from the pulsar (seen as the bright white dot). The movie shows how this filament has changed over two decades. An inset shows a closeup of the “guitar head” from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope also changing over time from 1994-2021.

NASA’s Chandra, Hubble Tune Into ‘Flame-Throwing’ Guitar Nebula

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Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet

Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet

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5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun

5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun

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5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun

5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun

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NASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing Mode

NASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing Mode

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What Is the Solar Wind?

What Is the Solar Wind?

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A woman wearing a black polo shirt with the NASA insignia, dark gray pants, and white shoes stands inside an aircraft hangar in front of a scaled aircraft model. The words “SUSAN Electrofan” and “PAX 180” are printed on a graphic along with fuselage, with a large NASA insignia in the center of the plane. The rear of the aircraft model, along with the wings and tail, are taken apart to display the inner components that make up its electrified propulsion system.

NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era

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NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT)

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Dynamic Spin Rig Publications

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Illustration of the BioSentinel spacecraft, flying past the Moon with the CubeSat's solar arrays fully deployed, facing the Sun.

What is BioSentinel?

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A prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons

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Northwestern University team members pose with lunar inflatable prototypes from their METALS project in NASA’s 2024 BIG Idea Challenge.

Northwestern University Takes Top Honors in BIG Idea Lunar Inflatables Challenge

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A woman wearing a black polo shirt with the NASA insignia, dark gray pants, and white shoes stands inside an aircraft hangar in front of a scaled aircraft model. The words “SUSAN Electrofan” and “PAX 180” are printed on a graphic along with fuselage, with a large NASA insignia in the center of the plane. The rear of the aircraft model, along with the wings and tail, are taken apart to display the inner components that make up its electrified propulsion system.

NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era

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Two images - Left, Diana Acosta holding her daughter in front of the cab of NASA's Vertical Motion Simulator. Right, Diana Acosta with her daughter inside the control deck of the Vertical Motion Simulator.

Math, Mentorship, Motherhood: Behind the Scenes with NASA Engineers

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Northwestern University team members pose with lunar inflatable prototypes from their METALS project in NASA’s 2024 BIG Idea Challenge.

Northwestern University Takes Top Honors in BIG Idea Lunar Inflatables Challenge

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Hollywood Techniques Help NASA Visualize Supercomputing Data

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Robert “Bobby” L. Satcher lubricates the robotic arm’s Latching End Effector

15 Years Ago: STS-129 Delivers Cargo on the Third Utilization and Logistics Flight

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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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A view of the front of a bustling event tent outfitted with NASA flags and insignia. The tent is centered in the photo and sits atop a concrete airfield, where many people are walking in and out of the tent. A grey-white overcast sky is behind and above the tent.

La NASA lleva un dron y un rover espacial a un espectáculo aéreo

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A man wearing a gray NASA shirt posing to the left of a subscale model or an aircraft that is orange and white with the NASA meatball on it. In the background, there are aviation posters located on the wall and another subscale model on display that is yellow and red.

Destacado de la NASA: Felipe Valdez, un ingeniero inspirador

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Jun 24, 2015

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Title 51—National and Commercial Space Programs

Pub. L. No. 111–314, 124 Stat. 3328 (Dec. 18, 2010)

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