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John Glenn 1st American in orbit 62 years ago today
John Glenn became the 1st American in orbit on February 20, 1962. Astronaut Glenn sits outside…
NASA Tech Contributes to Soft Moon Landing, Agency Science Underway
For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations…
A Star Passed Through the Oort Cloud Less Than 500,000 Years Ago. It Wasn’t the Only One.
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Hubble Views an Active Star-Forming Galaxy
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54…
Hubble Views an Active Star-Forming Galaxy
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54 million light-years from Earth…
Tiny new moons have been spotted orbiting Neptune and Uranus
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A New Space Telescope will Map the Universe and Help Protect the Earth from Asteroids
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Lander ‘alive and well’ after company scores first US moon landing since Apollo era
This photo provided by Intuitive Machines shows the company’s IM-1 Nova-C lunar lander in Houston in…
How we could snoop on extraterrestrial communications networks
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