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NASA’s Mars Odyssey Captures Huge Volcano, Nears 100,000 Orbits

The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station...

Alphabet Soup: NASA’s GOLD Finds Surprising C, X Shapes in Atmosphere

3 min readNASA Webb, Hubble Scientist Marcia Rieke Awarded Gruber Cosmology PrizeMarcia Rieke, a scientist who worked on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope...

Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample

Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust rich in carbon, nitrogen, and organic compounds, all...

The Marshall Star for June 26, 2024

By Wayne Smith It was a super Saturday in the park to celebrate space and the Rocket City. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center joined Downtown...

NASA Advances Research to Grow Habitats in Space from Fungi

As NASA prepares for long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars for the benefit of all, a habitat-growing concept selected Wednesday by the agency...

Detective Work Enables Perseverance Team to Revive SHERLOC Instrument

After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back...

NASA Selects International Space Station US Deorbit Vehicle

NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space exploration at...

40 Years Ago: STS-41D – First Space Shuttle Launch Pad Abort

In 1983, NASA received delivery of Discovery, the third space qualified vehicle in the agency’s space shuttle fleet. During the launch attempt for...

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