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NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the ...
NASA tracks stadium-size asteroid passing near Earth: Here's how to watch it live The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to both Earth and Venus relatively often.
NASA is gearing up for a bold new era of lunar exploration with three advanced instruments set to investigate the Moon’s ...
A Giant Leap in Earth Observation This new satellite, named NISAR (short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), is expected to lift off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre near Chennai on June 18.
Why the moon looks like a potato on NASA’s new eclipse maps The newer mapping method takes elevation on Earth and the moon’s topography into consideration.
Microsoft and NASA have teamed up on Earth Copilot, a software tool that uses AI to simplify the process of analyzing Earth science data.
NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid dashing past Earth today at a speed of 38,922 miles per hour. The space rock, known as 2025 DU2, is estimated to be about 150 feet across, according to ...
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will open “ NASA’s Earth Information Center at the National Museum of Natural History ”—a 2,000-square-foot exhibition showcasing the dynamic ...
NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid expected to whiz past the Earth today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour.
The inset showcases measurements taken by the NASA’s JENI and JoEE instruments during their passage through the radiation belts, revealing a highly structured energetic ion and electron environment.
NASA is additionally working on an asteroid-hunting telescope known as the NEO Surveyor to find near-Earth objects capable of causing significant damage.