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If Our Part of the Universe is Less Dense, Would That Explain the Hubble Tension?
In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaitre made a startling discovery that forever changed our perception of the Universe.…
The International Space Station Celebrates 25 Years in Space
NASA recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS) with a space-to-Earth call between the 7-person Expedition…
OSIRIS-REx Failed to Deploy its Drogue Chute Properly. Now NASA has Figured out Why
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a precious sample of rocky material from asteroid Bennu to Earth. The…
How Can Astronauts Maintain Their Bodies With Minimal Equipment?
Decades of research aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and other spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) have shown that…
Europa Clipper Could Help Discover if Jupiter's Moon is Habitable
Since 1979, when the Voyager probes flew past Jupiter and its system of moons, scientists have speculated about the possibility…
Fermi has Found More than 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars
In June 2008, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope began surveying the cosmos to study some of the most energetic…
Odyssey Gives Us a Cool New View of Mars
Chances are that you've seen images of Earth from space, thanks to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS),…
Titan Dragonfly is Go!…. for Phase C
The surface exploration of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, just got one step closer to reality as NASA’s much-anticipated Dragonfly mission…
Next Generation Space Telescopes Could Use Deformable Mirrors to Image Earth-Sized Worlds
NASA and its commercial partners are working on deformable mirrors (DM) that will allow next-generation telescopes to directly observe exoplanets.
NASA is Getting the Plutonium it Needs for Future Missions
The Department of Energy just delivered a shipment plutonium that NASA will turn into radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) for future…