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Friday November 3rd, 2023: Former Apollo astronaut's passing, Kepler's hot planets, Lucy's asteroid discovery & more
Former NASA astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II passes away, NASA's Kepler telescope reveals Kepler-385 system, NASA's Lucy spacecraft discovers asteroid system, NASA leadership participates in space mobility workshop, NASA's System-Wide Safety project achie
Nov 3, 2023
6 min
Thursday November 2nd, 2023: NASA astronaut captures nighttime on East Coast, Lucy Asteroid Mission, and more
Nighttime on the East Coast of the United States captured from the International Space Station, NASA's Lucy Asteroid Mission to pass by smallest main-belt asteroid, Human Research Program Investigators' Workshop in Texas, remnants of moon-creating protopl
Nov 2, 2023
5 min
Wednesday November 1st, 2023: NASA's In Space Production, Lucy spacecraft, lamprey fossils, and more
NASA's In Space Production Applications strategy, All-sky Fireball Network, Lucy spacecraft's asteroid visit, magnetic 'bones' of pulsar wind nebula, 160 million-year-old lamprey fossils, Bronze Age city discovery, Festival of Neolithic Ideas at Stoneheng
Nov 1, 2023
6 min
Tuesday October 31st, 2023: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Betsiboka River Delta, Chicxulub impact & more
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Betsiboka River Delta's iron-rich sediment, Belgium's discovery of the Chicxulub impact, ancient shark tooth weapons in Sulawesi, successful rescue of a humpback whale in Alaska, Roman forts in the Fertile Crescent, Jam
Oct 31, 2023
6 min
Monday October 30th, 2023: NASA's SpaceX CRS-29 mission, Mars subsurface ice maps, Antarctic lava lake & more
NASA's SpaceX CRS-29 mission to the International Space Station, detailed maps of Mars' hidden subsurface ice, lava lake near Antarctica, asteroid chunk of the moon, space junk affecting Earth's upper atmosphere, fossils in Africa, evolution of caterpilla
Oct 30, 2023
4 min
Sunday October 29th, 2023: 1800-Year-Old Greek Building Unearthed, Breakthrough in Acne Treatment, and More
Underwater archaeologists discover ancient public building on Greek island, Australian scientists develop breakthrough acne treatment, Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock releases book on stargazing, long-tongued insect predicted by Darwin finally found, political l
Oct 29, 2023
5 min
Saturday October 28th, 2023: NASA's Ames Center for Innovation, Commercial Crew Program, Spanish podcast & more
NASA's Ames Center for Innovation and Technology Enhancement, upcoming missions to the International Space Station, NASA's first Spanish podcast, the design and cultural significance of the worm logotype, testing an instrument to measure particles during
Oct 28, 2023
6 min
Friday October 27th, 2023: NASA's IXPE telescope captures polarized X-ray imagery, Landslide Hazard Assessment integrated into DisasterAWARE & more
NASA's IXPE telescope captures polarized X-ray imagery of supernova remnant SN 1006, Landslide Hazard Assessment model integrated into DisasterAWARE platform, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aims to revolutionize understanding of Milky Way, NASA to cond
Oct 27, 2023
5 min
Thursday October 26th, 2023: NASA maps air pollutants, laser communications to ISS, Jupiter's storms & more
A NASA-led mission aims to map air pollutants in Chicago neighborhoods, NASA is launching a two-way laser communications system to the International Space Station, Juno mission captures image of turbulent clouds on Jupiter, record number of sea turtle nes
Oct 26, 2023
6 min
Wednesday October 25th, 2023: NASA's 20-G Centrifuge, Orion software award, lidar technology, & more
NASA's 20-G Centrifuge, Orion Team's award, lidar technology development, successful joining of Orion spacecraft modules, Endangered Species Act's climate change test, DNA analysis connecting stolen skulls to living relatives, Garamantes' ancient water sy
Oct 25, 2023
6 min
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