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Astronomy 3 hours ago

Astronauts to patch up NASA's NICER telescope

NASA is planning to repair NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, during a spacewalk later this year. It will be the fourth science observatory in orbit ...

Space Exploration 3 hours ago

NASA to hoist its sail: Solar sail mission gets ready for launch

A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space—not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch ...

Space Exploration 5 hours ago

NASA's near space network enables PACE climate mission to 'phone home'

The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers, a feat made possible in part by innovative, data-storing technology from NASA's Near Space Network, ...

Space Exploration 5 hours ago

On-demand nutrient production system for long-duration space missions

When astronauts embark on long space missions, they'll need to grow their own food because pre-packaged meals from Earth lose their nutritional value over time. The BioNutrients project at Ames Research Center's Space Biosciences ...

Space Exploration 7 hours ago

NASA Goddard to build quake detector for Artemis III moon landing

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will build a moonquake detector for astronauts to deploy on the moon in 2026 during the Artemis III mission, which will return astronauts to the lunar surface for ...

Space Exploration 8 hours ago

The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth—and governments are on the hook

A piece of space junk recently crashed through the roof and floor of a man's home in Florida. Nasa later confirmed that the object had come from unwanted hardware released from the international space station.

Space Exploration 9 hours ago

Next up is launch, as Boeing's Starliner takes trek to Cape Canaveral

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, set to take its first humans on board during the Crew Flight Test mission next month, was transported from Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

Cell & Microbiology 10 hours ago

Multi-drug resistant bacteria found on International Space Station mutate to become functionally distinct

Principal Investigator Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory led a team that studied 13 strains of the bacterial species Enterobacter bugandensis that were isolated from the International Space Station ...

Ecology Apr 16, 2024

From tape measures to space lasers: Quantifying biomass of the world's tallest forests

In this era of accelerating climate crisis, accounting for all aspects of Earth's carbon cycle is a crucial task. The magnitude of atmospheric carbon burden means trees and forests are limited but important instruments among ...

Space Exploration Apr 16, 2024

NASA confirms mystery object that crashed through roof of Florida home came from space station

NASA confirmed Monday that a mystery object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month was a chunk of space junk from equipment discarded at the International Space Station.

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