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As NASA's budget shrinks, Europe doubles down on Earth science: 'Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation'
In the United States, NASA's science programs are facing historic funding cuts. A new proposed federal budget slashes the ...
OTD In Space - July 11: Abandoned Skylab Returns To Earth
On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the ...
Earth Is Spinning Faster and Days Are Getting Shorter, for Now
The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...
NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping
By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...
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NASA probe flies into the Sun and captures the origins of solar storms
In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that ...
Earth’s Rotation Is Speeding Up This Summer. Here’s Why
The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.
NASA astronaut captures rare phenomenon from 250 miles above Earth: See photo of 'sprite'
NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...
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WATCH: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun ...
Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...
Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies
As more satellites are launched into orbit, space agencies are looking at how to predict space weather events that could harm ...
New interstellar comet will keep a safe distance from Earth, NASA says
NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...
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'We are proud to serve our country, both on Earth and in space': NASA astronauts beam home July 4 message from ISS (video)
NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim and Anne McClain marked Independence Day with a few heartfelt words for their ...