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Economics of Nature: Mapping Liberia’s Ecosystems to Understand Their Value
NASA is working alongside Conservation International and the Liberian Government through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to pilot an innovative and replicable approach to more accurately map ecosystems to support effective...
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James Webb Space Telescope Laser-Focused Sight
About 1 million miles away from the nearest eye surgeon, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be able to perfect its own vision while in orbit. Though the Webb telescope will focus on stars and galaxies approximately 13.5 billion...
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Fossils of Planet Formation: Lucy Mission Teaser
Beyond the asteroid belt are "fossils of planet formation" known as the Trojan asteroids. These primitive bodies share Jupiter's orbit in two vast swarms, and may hold clues to the formation and evolution of our solar system. Now, NASA...
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Einstein Ring Spotted by Hubble
This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a distant galaxy located in the constellation Fornax. It is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered. This object’s unusual shape is the result of...
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Echoes of the Universe's Creation
Sound waves from the nascent universe, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), left their imprint on the cosmos by influencing galaxy distribution. Researchers have explored this imprint back to when the universe was three billion...
Curated Video
NASA Explorers: Apollo: Episode 1: Giant Leaps
What does a half-century of lunar science sound like? Join Moon data expert Ernie Wright on a musical time-traveling journey through the Apollo program and the exploration era of today. We explore what we knew about the Moon before...
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Gravity Assist: Talking to Ingenuity and Other Space Robots, with Nacer Chahat
The Ingenuity helicopter made history on April 19, 2021, with the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. How do engineers talk to a helicopter all the way out on Mars? How about other spacecraft? We’ll hear...
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NASA's Curious Universe: The Crawlers
A pair of behemoth machines called crawler-transporters have carried the load of taking rockets and spacecraft to the launchpad for more than 50 years at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Espresso Media
Reflections on the JFK Assassination and the Apollo Space Program
In this video, a former communication specialist at Kennedy Space Center reflects on the impact of President Kennedy's assassination on the space program and the sense of awe she felt working there. She also discusses the organizational...
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Explore Mars' Jezero Crater with NASA’s Perseverance Rover
This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séítah” region. Perseverance Project Scientist Ken Farley points out...
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NASA New Horizons space probe shows Pluto has ice mountains 11,000 feet tall
Scientists say Pluto has mountains made of water ice and is likely to have volcanoes and geysers, based on the data transmitted by the New Horizons spacecraft. The New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto as close as 7,800 miles on...
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China lands Jade Rabbit rover on Moon
China says that it has successfully landed a craft carrying a robotic rover on the surface of the moon. On Saturday afternoon (GMT), a landing module touched down on the moon's surface using thrusters, marking an important step for...
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NASA dummies to fly around Moon to test anti-radiation vests
NASA will send astronaut dummies around the moon in the Orion spacecraft for the uncrewed Artemis I mission scheduled for next year, Space.com reports.
Next Animation Studio
July lunar eclipse will reportedly be longest this century
The longest lunar eclipse of this century will appear over Earth at the end of July, according astronomer Bruce McClure.
Next Animation Studio
NASA gets a billion dollars to probe Venus again
Two new missions will examine the super-heated planet’s atmosphere and geological features.
Astrum
What did NASA's Dawn discover on Ceres?
NASA's Dawn mission finished in 2017. What did it discover while in orbit around Ceres?
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NASA discovers ‘most similar planet to Earth’ ever found
A team of scientists has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet in the habitable or “Goldilocks” zone of its star while reviewing old data from the Kepler Space Telescope, according to a press release from NASA.
Next Animation Studio
Massive asteroid to pass near Earth on April 29
A huge asteroid classified as “potentially hazardous” by NASA will streak past our planet on April 29, accordoing to NASA’s Asteroid Watch.
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NASA Missions Team Up to Study Unique Magnetar Outburst
On April 28, a supermagnetized stellar remnant known as a magnetar blasted out a simultaneous mix of X-ray and radio signals never observed before. The flare-up included the first fast radio burst (FRB) ever seen from within our Milky...
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NASA | Voyager Finds Magnetic Bubbles at Solar System's Edge
The sun's magnetic field spins opposite directions on the north and south poles. These oppositely pointing magnetic fields are separated by a layer of current called the heliospheric current sheet. Due to the tilt of the magnetic axis in...
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NASA | SDO Catches Surf Waves on the Sun
Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. This makes for more than just a nice photo-op: the waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere, known as the corona.
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NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 2
Episode two reveals why a space-based perspective is crucial to understanding how the food supply is distributed around the world. Satellites can reveal how many fields have been planted and how a crop is growing, providing a way to...
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Can Data from Space Save Dolphins?
The age-old mystery of why otherwise healthy dolphins, whales and porpoises get stranded along coasts worldwide deepens: After a collaboration between NASA scientists and marine biologists, new research suggests space weather is not the...
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NASA | Looking for the Shadows of New Worlds
Astronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures changes in a star's brightness caused by a mini-eclipse. When a planet crosses...