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NASA’s Van Allen probe falls back after years of shielding space science

A spacecraft built to study one of Earth’s most hostile regions ended its mission with a return through the atmosphere years ...
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NASA has 36 projects you can help with right now

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with ...

NASA's tiny spacecraft sends first exoplanet images

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most ...
Science News

NASA’s DART spacecraft changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...
Science Daily

NASA DART mission reveals asteroids throw “cosmic snowballs” at each other

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...
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NASA to provide satellite data for fisheries research in new partnership

Under a new partnership with the Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCEMFIS), NASA will provide new advanced satellite data ...
Opinion

It’s the Most Famous Line in NASA History. You’ve Heard It a Million Times. The Future of the Agency Now Depends on Remembering It.

The agency’s new leader is showing promise so far.

Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...