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NASA Deaths: Is There A Conspiracy Targeting Scientists With UFO Secrets?

A string of deaths and disappearances among NASA and US defence scientists, including asteroid expert Michael David Hicks, is raising uncomfortable questions in Washington about espionage, UFO secrets and the protection of critical technology. Officials have not confirmed any foul play, but former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker calls the…

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Is Neil McCasland Disappearance Related To NASA JPL Engineer Who Also Went Missing Eight Months Before He Did?

Retired Major General McCasland disappears, leaving personal items behind. His case follows NASA engineer Monica Reza's unsolved vanishing months earlier

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Jeff Bezos is dropping billions on a doomsday fleet to face a dinosaur-level threat hurtling toward Earth

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ aeronautics firm, is teaming up with NASA for a brand-new planetary defense mission called “Near-Earth Objects Hunter,” aiming to protect our planet from incoming asteroids. This high-tech initiative, which will utilize a new spacecraft named “Blue Ring,” is expected to launch sometime this year, though an…

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My unsung hero of science: Frank Malina – fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’

Frank Malina was a lot of things. The Texas-born aeronautical engineer co-designed the first jet-assisted take-off (Jato) rocket and the US’s first operational high-altitude rocket. He co-founded and became director of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory – and along the way, joined a team of rocket engineers who became known as…

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NASA Is Stress-Testing Mars Tech in Earth's Harshest Deserts — And the Results Are Wild

NASA is stress-testing new Mars exploration tech in Earth's harshest deserts, revealing surprising insights into how future drones, robots and gliders could survive the Red Planet.

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3I/ATLAS Anomaly: Harvard Expert Warns Against Ignoring Surprising Data

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says data on 3I/ATLAS show unexplained acceleration and colour anomalies, urging scientists not to dismiss the evidence as mere error.

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Surprise asteroid flies by Earth at only 250 miles away (video)

An asteroid, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Sept. 30 after surprising astronomers.

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Wild new 'Skyfall' Mars mission would drop 6 scout helicopters onto the Red Planet from the air (video)

"With six helicopters, Skyfall offers a low-cost solution that multiplies the range we would cover, the data we would collect, and the scientific research we would conduct."

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab ending remote work policy for nearly 5,500 employees. 'Employees who do not return by their required date will be considered to have resigned.'

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has told more than 5,500 hybrid and telework employees that they must return to on-site work or resign.

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Laurie Leshin stepping down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will prepare for new leadership, as current director Laurie Leshin has announced that she's stepping down from the role next month.

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Here's the launch plan for NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions: 'Liftoff is just the beginning'

After more than a week of delays, two new NASA missions have gotten the greenlight to head to space tonight (March 8).

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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to ensure these twin spacecraft can continue exploring interstellar space.

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NASA's Europa Clipper will fly close to Mars today on way to Jupiter's icy moon

NASA's Europa Clipper will fly past Mars today to adjust its trajectory and position itself for a critical phase of its 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) trek to the Jupiter system.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Spared From Wildfires

Recent wildfires threatened NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in LA County, but heroic firefighters saved the facility. Over 150 employees lost homes, but e...

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Springtime on Mars brings frost avalanches, gas geysers and explosions (photos)

It’s time to ring in the Martian New Year with a variety of strange sights on the planet’s Northern Hemisphere.

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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable scientists to detect the faint light from planets beyond our solar system.

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NASA launches spacecraft toward Jupiter

The massive spacecraft will explore an ocean-covered moon near Jupiter to search for life's building blocks

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Friday essay: love and loss in outer space – Ceridwen Dovey on how scientists feel about space objects

This is the day we will sink our own home – it is old, they say, and can’t live forever. I’m among the ones who must lock the dome behind us and throw the keys in the river of stardust in which we’ve swum for so long. Happy new year!…

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Learn about Space with these awesome NASA education videos

If you're looking for some great STEM education ideas, this collection of videos and experiments from NASA will blow your mind.

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James Webb Space Telescope spies never-before-seen star behavior in distant nebula (video, photo)

A new James Webb Space Telescope image shows perfectly aligned protostellar outflows in the Serpens Nebula, supporting a long-running theory of stellar formation.

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James Webb telescope spots a dozen newborn stars spewing gas in the same direction — and nobody is sure why

The James Webb telescope has spotted a peculiar group of baby stars firing enormous jets into space at nearly the exact same angle. The discovery could hold new insights into how stars are born.

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NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor

Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the meteoroids are as tiny as grains of sand and small pebbles, and they completely burn up high in the atmosphere. You can see meteoroids larger than about a golf ball…

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NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Delivered A Spectacular Aerial View From Io, Including Mountains And A Lava Lake

Io has been studied by the Pioneer and Voyager probes in the 1970s and the Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s, but only now with Juno we can finally have such detailed images of the surface. The post NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Delivered A Spectacular Aerial View From Io, Including Mountains And…

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After months of sending gibberish to NASA, Voyager 1 is finally making sense again

NASA's Voyager 1 probe has resumed sending usable data back to Earth after engineers fixed a computer error that caused the interstellar spacecraft to only transmit gibberish for five months.

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Well, hello, Voyager 1! The venerable spacecraft is once again making sense

After a nasty computer glitch five months ago, Voyager 1 is once again able to communicate with Earth in a way that mission operators can understand.

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