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NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk concluded their spacewalkNASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3:08 p.m. EDT.   outside the…

When a rose-colored meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert in 2022, no one knew how old it was or where it came from. Not until NASA-funded scientists age-dated its minerals did they realize the nearly 2-pound (800-gram) rock was…

NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission has gathered its first clues to how space weather affects Earth’s magnetic field. In a new paper, researchers break down how these interactions work after analyzing initial observations from the…

NASA’s Voyager team is celebrating two recent developments with the Voyager 1 spacecraft: In September, they successfully completed a months-long effort to stretch the spacecraft’s diminishing power supply. Then, on Oct. 20, an unexpected loss of communication with the spacecraft…

You may never soar under the clouds or over the organic sands of Saturn’s moon Titan, but your name can. NASA is inviting the public to send their names aboard the agency’s Dragonfly rotorcraft and be part of the first…

A sweeping barred galaxy takes center stage in this Oct. 22, 2026, image, but the gravitational lensing at bottom right is the real target. This observation is one of many gravitational lensing images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in…

Like a spectral form rising out of a cold mist, NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes have captured a hauntingly dynamic star-forming scene. It lies within the vast Carina Nebula, a diffuse star-forming region located about 7,500 light-years away…

NASA-funded researchers are helping Virginia officials assess the impacts of a harmful algal bloom on oyster farms along the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore.

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk began a spacewalk at 7:57 a.m. EDT outside the International Space Station airlock to install and deploy an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array on the 2A electrical power…

NASA is streaming live coverage as two astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

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