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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Senior NASA officials visited the Marshall Space Flight Center on Tuesday to see progress in Huntsville’s role in planning the Artemis missions, the agency’s largest project to date. “We’re basically developing a plan for how we’re going to send humans into space and beyond, (and) beyond low …

Astronomers using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of the small spiral galaxy NGC 1317. This Hubble image shows NGC 1317, a small spiral galaxy some 55 million light years away in the constellation Fornax. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / …

Here is a summary of scientific news briefs. NASA launches test mission of deviating asteroid spacecraft A spacecraft that must ultimately crash to be successful was launched Tuesday night from California as part of a NASA mission to demonstrate the world’s first planetary defense system, designed to deflect an asteroid …

NASA has launched a mission to deliberately crush a spaceship onto an asteroid – a test if humanity ever stops a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. It might sound like science fiction, but the DART – Double Asteroid Redirection Test – is a true proof of …

3. There is no risk for the Earth Artist’s impression of the DART spacecraft with its solar panels deployed.Picture: Nasa When DART arrives at Didymos in 11 months, the spacecraft will be 6.8 million miles (11 million km) from Earth, according to at NASA. Didymos, which means “twin” in Greek, …

If anyone has a good idea on how to put a fission nuclear power plant on the moon, the US government wants to hear about it. NASA and the country’s largest federal nuclear research laboratory on Friday launched a tender for a fission surface energy system. NASA is working with …

// php echo do_shortcode (‘[responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”]’)?> The U.S. military and NASA are embracing quantum computing technology for a range of communication and sensor applications as they seek to take advantage of reductions in size, weight and power as well as huge increases in bandwidth and …

Animation showing NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars. Credit: NASA With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the return trip to “Wright Brothers Field” at “Octavia E. Butler Landing”, the site where Perseverance landed with Ingenuity in February. This flight was performed with the rotor speed recently increased to 2,700 rpm. After …

SOFIA flies over the snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountains with its telescope door open during a test flight. SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP. Credit: NASA / Jim Ross Examining the ionized carbon emissions of Sagittarius B provides essential information about star formation in our own galaxy and beyond. Sagittarius, or …

An intimidatingly named space object – “Earthgrazer” – flew over Georgia and Alabama this week, giving witnesses a glimpse of something rare, according to NASA. The “Earthgrazers” are fireball meteors with such a shallow trajectory that they travel long distances through the upper atmosphere, according to NASA. “Very rarely they …