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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."

Space

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.

Space

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).

Space

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.

Space

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.

Space

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.

Space

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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How Sylvia Acevedo Defied Barriers To Become Girl Scout CEO

It is one thing to be a Girl Scout. It is another thing, entirely, when your family has no money to pay for your dues and troop activities like Sylvia Acevedo.

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Trio of mini moon rovers pass key tests ahead of upcoming lunar launch (photos)

The CADRE rovers, destined for the next Intuitive Machines mission to the moon, are able to work together thanks to cooperative software.

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried

Voyager 1 has been traveling through space since 1977, and some scientists hoped it could keep sending back science data for 50 years. But a serious glitch has put that milestone in jeopardy.

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NASA's interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft isn't doing so well — here's what we know

NASA's Voyager 1 deep space probe started glitching last year, and scientists aren't sure they can fix it.

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NASA Labels Approaching Asteroid The Size Of A Football Field As “Potentially Hazardous”

“There are millions of asteroids in our solar system, of which around 2,350 asteroids have been classified as potentially hazardous." The post NASA Labels Approaching Asteroid The Size Of A Football Field As “Potentially Hazardous” first appeared on Bored Panda.

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover celebrates 4,000 'sols' on the Red Planet

As NASA's Curiosity rover passes 4,000 'sols,' or Martian days, on the Red Planet, a Space.com reporter who began work in 2012 reflects on what that means.

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