A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA plans a mission to rescue it

NASA plans to mount a daring mission to stave off the destruction of the Swift Observatory, which has been falling back to ...
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NASA is racing to save a telescope before it falls to Earth

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been hunting gamma-ray bursts from orbit since 2004. But atmospheric drag is now ...
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NASA is tracking five more asteroids set to pass Earth in the coming days

Five asteroids are on track to pass within 4.6 million miles of Earth in the coming days, and NASA’s planetary defense system ...
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NASA’s plan to dump space station in ocean sparks uproar

A landmark chapter in human space exploration is edging toward a controversial ending, as NASA moves forward with plans to ...
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NASA selects CU Boulder mission to study space weather around Earth

Both DAPHNE satellites will be equipped with three remote-sensing instruments that will provide coordinated, multi-point ...

Why does Venus take 243 Earth days to complete a single day, according to NASA

The Sun would rise in the west on Venus, but that is only the beginning of how strange a day there would feel. A day is ...

Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars

Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago ...
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Did NASA find evidence of ancient life on Mars? Perseverance spots complex carbon in Martian rocks

Could Martian mudstones be holding evidence of ancient microbes? New findings strengthen the case that the Red Planet once ...

Large asteroid will safely pass by Earth on Saturday

A building-sized asteroid will pass safely by Earth on June 27. Dozens of near-Earth objects like this one routinely pass relatively close to Earth without incident.
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Nasa to push a telescope falling to Earth away from it with another spacecraft

Nasa has tasked Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft with raising the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into a higher orbit before ...

Biologists Want NASA to Build a Quarantine Lab for Alien Germs on the Moon

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

NASA Awards PlanetiQ Contract to Expand Access to Commercial Polarimetric GNSS Radio Occultation Satellite Data

PlanetiQ announced today that NASA has awarded the company an expanded contract through NASA's Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program, broadening access to commercial satellite data for ...