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NASA Releases “Ghostly Cosmic Hand” Image Just in Time for Halloween

NASA unveiled a creepy new space image showing the bones of a “ghostly cosmic hand” – actually a pulsar wind nebula from a collapsed star. The hand was captured using specialized telescopes. Eerie Image Shows “Bones” of Neutron Star’s Magnetic Fields In a Halloween-timed announcement, NASA shared a spooky X-ray image resembling a skeletal human […]

NASA Releases “Ghostly Cosmic Hand” Image Just in Time for Halloween
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Webb Telescope Detects Stunning Quartz Clouds Around Unusual Exoplanet

NASA’s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered evidence of quartz nanocrystals high in the clouds surrounding exoplanet WASP-17 b, located 1,300 light-years away. This marks the first detection of silica minerals in an exoplanet atmosphere – a major surprise for researchers. Within the constellation Scorpius, WASP-17 b has intrigued astronomers since its discovery in […]

Webb Telescope Detects Stunning Quartz Clouds Around Unusual Exoplanet
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SpaceX Rocket to Uncover Origins of Earth’s Core in Asteroid Psyche Mission

SpaceX Rocket “Psyche” Prepares for Highly Ambitious Six-Year Journey to Metal Asteroid That Could Unlock Secrets of Our Solar System’s Origins Outer Space Exploration Forges Ahead Despite Rising Global Tensions Even as a pall of danger and uncertainty hangs over much of the world due to numerous wars and conflicts, the epic voyage of discovery […]

SpaceX Rocket to Uncover Origins of Earth’s Core in Asteroid Psyche Mission
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Citizen Scientists Invited to Participate in Radio Experiment During Solar Eclipse

Every year or two, the solar system aligns perfectly, with the moon throwing a shadow over a portion of the Earth’s surface and blocking out the sun—a solar eclipse. People from all over the country traveled to observe the “Great American Total Eclipse” in 2017, the first one visible in the continental states since 1979. […]

Citizen Scientists Invited to Participate in Radio Experiment During Solar Eclipse
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SpaceX 4 Astronauts Safely Splash Down in Florida, Ending Record-Breaking Mission

Four astronauts have come home from a six-month mission on the International Space Station, splashing down off the coast of Florida on Monday aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship. The astronauts, who are part of NASA and SpaceX’s Crew-6 mission, left the space station around 7:05 a.m. ET on Sunday. The team spent the day […]

SpaceX 4 Astronauts Safely Splash Down in Florida, Ending Record-Breaking Mission
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Life on Mars: Once There, Now Gone? New Study Investigates

While the search for life on Mars continues, NASA’s goal to return samples from the planet is expected to be completed in the early next decade. One scientist, though, advances an intriguing theory: that humanity may have contacted life on Mars over five decades ago, an encounter that may have ended tragically. Two earlier landers […]

Life on Mars: Once There, Now Gone? New Study Investigates
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NASA and UNAM to Develop Satellites for Tracking Marine Animals

At NASA’s request and with the help of the Mexican Space Agency (AEM), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and four other Mexican universities are helping to design and build four mini-satellites that will orbit the Earth to track marine animals. The devices are just 10x10x10 centimeters and are called CubeSats because of their […]

NASA and UNAM to Develop Satellites for Tracking Marine Animals
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James Webb Telescope Damaged After Being Hit By Rock

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most potent space telescope in the world, has sustained significant damage as a result of an asteroid collision in May. The European Space Agency (ESA), the Canadian Space Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) worked together to build the telescope (CSA). In order […]

James Webb Telescope Damaged After Being Hit By Rock
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NASA will Reveal Deepest Image of the Universe

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been in space for six months, and it has finally taken its first color pictures, which will be released on July 12. At a press conference, NASA shared some information about these images and talked about how its brand-new telescope works. This telescope has infrared capabilities that let you […]

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Watch: NASA Shares Video of Pepperoni Storm on Jupiter

Who doesn’t appreciate a slice of pizza every now and then? It just so happens to be one of our favorite go-to dishes, regardless of the occasion or time of day. Pepperoni is unquestionably at the top of most pizza fans’ wish lists. Indulging in a hearty pepperoni pizza appears to be the ideal method […]

Watch: NASA Shares Video of Pepperoni Storm on Jupiter
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