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The latest updates from deep space missions, planetary defense, and scientific breakthroughs across the cosmos.
MarsNASA Begins Testing Robotics to Bring First Samples Back From Mars
Engineers are developing the crucial hardware needed for a series of daring space missions that will be carried out in the coming decade. Testing has already begun on what would be the most sophisticated endeavor ever attempted at the Red Planet: bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth for closer study. The multi-mission …
ISSScientists Probe How Long-Term Spaceflight Alters Immunity
On Earth, a human body with a properly functioning immune system will work to overcome an infection. But in space, that same immune system will have to work a bit harder to overcome the same infection. In the isolated environment of the International Space Station, many factors — physiological stress, disrupted circadian rhythms, radiation, microgravity, …
AsteroidsNASA’s ‘Eyes on Asteroids’ Reveals Our Near-Earth Object Neighborhood
Learn more about the growing population of near-Earth objects with NASA’s new 3D real-time web-based application. Through a new 3D real-time visualization tool, you can now explore the asteroids and comets that approach Earth’s orbital neighborhood – and the spacecraft that visit these objects – with a click or a swipe. NASA’s Eyes on Asteroids …
EarthGLOBE Program Receives AGU Award
The NASA-sponsored Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program has received the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2021 Excellence in Earth and Space Science Education Award. According to AGU, the annual award honors an individual, group, or team committed to promoting excellent geophysical education. Through GLOBE, people around the world learn how to …
MarsTeam Behind NASA’s Newest Mars Rover to Honor Persevering Students
Middle schoolers who have pushed past obstacles to reach their academic goals will be celebrated by the mission team with a personal message beamed down from NASA’s Perseverance rover. NASA’s “You’ve Got Perseverance” awards opportunity invites U.S. teachers, educators, and community members to nominate students in grades 6-8 who have demonstrated that they have the …
AsteroidsNASA Goddard Helps Ensure Asteroid Deflector Hits Target, Predicts and Will Observe Impact Results
Although the chance of an asteroid impacting Earth is small, even a relatively small asteroid of about 500 feet (about 150 meters) across carries enough energy to cause widespread damage around the impact site. NASA leads efforts in the U.S. and worldwide both to detect and track potentially hazardous asteroids and to study technologies to …
The SunFive Weird Things That Happen in Outer Space
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know space is weird. But just how weird might surprise you. Space is dominated by invisible electromagnetic forces that we typically don’t feel. It’s also full of bizarre types of matter that we never experience on Earth. Here’s five unearthly things that happen almost exclusively in outer space. …
The SunFor Solar Scientist Ruizhu Chen, the Sun Is the Ultimate Puzzle
How do we study the structure of something we can’t observe directly? One way is by analyzing how waves travel through it. That’s how we probed the interior of Earth. We learned about its density, temperature, and composition by studying the seismic waves that earthquakes and other large-scale disruptions produce. This same technique we use …
ISSExperiments Riding 24th SpaceX Cargo Mission to Space Station Study Bioprinting, Crystallization, Laundry
The 24th SpaceX cargo resupply services mission, targeted to launch in late December from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carries scientific research and technology demonstrations to the International Space Station. The experiments aboard include studies of bioprinting, crystallization of monoclonal antibodies, changes in immune function, plant gene expression changes, laundering clothes in space, processing …
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