NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, exploring the universe near and far. The science instruments have returned to full operation, following recovery from a computer anomaly that suspended the telescope's observations ...
Astronomy
Jul 20, 2021
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The Hubble Space Telescope should be back in action soon, following a tricky, remote repair job by NASA.
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2021
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NASA is continuing to diagnose a problem with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope after completing another set of tests on June 23 and 24. The payload computer halted on June 13 and the spacecraft stopped collecting ...
Space Exploration
Jun 26, 2021
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The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been peering into the universe for more than 30 years, has been down for the past few days, NASA said Friday.
Astronomy
Jun 19, 2021
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The team behind NASA's InSight Mars lander has come up with an innovative way to boost the spacecraft's energy at a time when its power levels have been falling. The lander's robotic arm trickled sand near one solar panel, ...
Space Exploration
Jun 3, 2021
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NASA's newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake.
Space Exploration
May 12, 2021
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Long before NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, one of its highest-level mission goals was already established: to seek out signs of ancient life on the Martian surface. In fact, the techniques ...
Space Exploration
Apr 7, 2021
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu's surface during last fall's sample collection event. On Apr. 7, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close ...
Space Exploration
Apr 1, 2021
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When Steamboat Geyser, the world's tallest, started erupting again in 2018 in Yellowstone National Park after decades of relative silence, it raised a few tantalizing scientific questions. Why is it so tall? Why is it erupting ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2021
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The first readings from the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover have arrived on Earth. SuperCam was developed jointly by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and a consortium of French ...
Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2021
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