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Newly selected NASA mission will hunt for caves on the moon

NASA has selected a mission proposal that will peer below a volcanic pit on the Moon to find out whether it opens onto a ...

A new NASA mission plan could capture light no space telescope now sees

NASA will move ahead with a new space telescope to see the cold, dusty universe far more sharply than any before it, chasing ...
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NASA tests 12 next-gen heat shields aboard trash-filled spacecraft for Mars missions

NASA is preparing to test 12 experimental heat shield capsules during the fiery destruction ...

Doomed NASA spacecraft beams back stunning cosmic images weeks before fiery plunge to Earth

A doomed spacecraft set to plunge to Earth in weeks has shared new cosmic images. NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was ...
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NASA selects far-infrared telescope as first in new mission class

NASA has selected a new space telescope mission to study the universe in far-infrared light. NASA announced on September 23 ...
Ars Technica

NASA’s next “great observatory” begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, equipped with a 300-megapixel camera sighted through a refurbished spy mirror, launched Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a ...

NASA faces uncertain future as SpaceX plans to retire Falcon 9, Dragon

As SpaceX talks of retiring Falcon 9 and Dragon with a push for Starship, access to low Earth orbit could become difficult.
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Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory Leads NASA Missions Like ESCAPADE

On any given day at the Space Sciences Laboratory, engineers may be downloading data from satellites orbiting the moon, monitoring instruments capturing geomagnetic storms on the sun or scheduling ...

NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations

NASA on Friday released a much-anticipated “request” to the US commercial space industry to develop private space stations that, as early as 2030, will succeed the International Space Station as a ...