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NASA announced the winners on Wednesday of the third annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition designed to…
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Editor’s note, May 13, 2024: This article has been updated to clarify the locations of the SERT II control centers and…
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NASA selected 45 student essays as semifinalists of its 2024 Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students…
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As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign to return humans to the Moon for the benefit of all, the agency is…
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The recent shipment of heat source plutonium-238 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory to its…
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The third Power to Explore Student Challenge from NASA is underway. The writing challenge invites K-12 students in the United…
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Goddard's GIANT optical navigation software helped guide the OSIRIS-REx mission to the Asteroid Bennu. Today its developers continue to add…
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Cutting edge innovations by NASA researchers seek to refine lidars into smaller, lighter, more versatile tools for exploration.
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Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for astronauts on Mars to produce…