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News Articles: NASA

As more robots and people travel to the moon in coming years, some researchers believe it's time to set a lunar time standard.

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  • Space

If daylight saving time seems tricky, try figuring out the time on the moon

Scientists are pondering how to tell time on other celestial bodies. It's a lot harder than you might think.

March 12, 2023
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Carmen Molina Acosta
This imagery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into the asteroid's surface.

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  • Science

Astronomers still have their eyes on that asteroid NASA whacked

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid, directly altering its path through space. Scientists are still studying the space rock to learn more.

March 04, 2023
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Members of Crew-6 — (L-R) Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates, and NASA astronauts Warren Hoburg and Stephen Bowen — pose after arriving at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on February 21, 2023 in Florida. Each of their flight suits has numerous patches - including one designed specifically for this mission to the International Space Station.

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  • Space

Every space crew needs a mission patch. This company has designed NASA's for 50 years

Since the first days of the space program, astronauts wear a special patch specific to each mission. A small North Carolina company has designed them all since the Apollo lunar launches.

February 24, 2023
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By:
  • Brendan Byrne
Mourners left a makeshift memorial outside NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston after the Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003.

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  • Space

Twenty years after the Columbia disaster, a NASA official reflects on lessons learned

Seven astronauts died when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry on Feb. 1, 2003. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy looks back on the tragedy and how it shaped the agency.

February 01, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
The University of Arizona shared an image, pictured, of a formation on Mars that resembles a bear.

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  • Space

A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse structure" resembles a snout.

January 29, 2023
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
NASA's InSight Mars lander is covered in dust in its final selfie, taken on April 24. The following month its robotic arm was put into resting position, aka "retirement pose."

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  • Space

Goodnight, sweet spacecraft: NASA's InSight lander may have just signed off from Mars

InSight's end has long been in sight, with NASA warning that it would likely be inoperative by the end of the year. The lander went quiet this weekend and shared a tweet it said might be its last.

December 20, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A man watches a meteor during the Geminid meteor shower over Brimham Rocks in North Yorkshire.

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  • Space

A spectacular meteor shower called the Geminids will peak on Tuesday evening

The Geminids meteor shower, one of the best and most reliable of the year, will peak on Tuesday night.

December 13, 2022
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By:
  • Roshan Fernandez
NASA's Orion capsule splashes down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday.

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  • Space

NASA's Artemis I returns from the moon with hopes to get astronauts back there soon

The successful splashdown of the spacecraft with no humans aboard keeps NASA's Artemis mission on track to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.

December 11, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Ahn
This screengrab from NASA TV shows NASA's Orion capsule, left, nearing the moon, right, on Monday. At center is Earth.

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  • Space

NASA's Orion capsule buzzes the moon in a last step before humans revisit lunar orbit

The close approach of 81 miles occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Astronauts will take Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024.

November 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
This illustration shows the James Webb Space Telescope as it might appear as it orbits the sun, about a million miles away from Earth.

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  • Science

NASA once again declines to rename the James Webb Space Telescope

NASA says an extensive review of historical records found no evidence that Webb ever led or supported purges of government employees who were gay. But some astronomers think that's a pretty low bar.

November 18, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Iceland is like Mars — "if Mars had hot tubs," according to a new ad campaign from Visit Iceland.

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  • World

Iceland tells tourists it's like an alien planet. A NASA scientist agrees

"Iceland. Better than space." That's the new tagline from Iceland's tourism board. We asked the head of Visit Iceland why her country might have an edge over space — and consulted NASA as well.

November 18, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
The small red dot highlighted inside the white box on this James Webb Space Telescope image is an early galaxy, seen as it looked just 350 million years after the Big Bang.

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  • Science

James Webb telescope spots galaxies near the dawn of time, thrilling scientists

Galaxies that existed soon after the Big Bang turn out to be surprisingly bright, a discovery that's both thrilled and puzzled scientists who study how the universe evolved over time.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
NASA's new moon rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. This launch is the first flight test of the Artemis program.

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  • Space

After a night of uncertainty, NASA's Artemis moon rocket takes to the skies

NASA's Artemis moon rocket has finally launched after months of setbacks, from fuel leaks to hurricanes. If successful, the mission signals a big step toward returning humans to the moon.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
The Artemis 1 moon rocket and the Orion spacecraft are sitting poised on Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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  • Space

Watch Live: NASA's Artemis moon rocket counts down to launch

The space agency has been trying for months to send its giant moon rocket on its first test flight. The goal is to send a crew capsule, with no astronauts on board, around the moon and back.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A total lunar eclipse graces the night skies during the first blood moon of the year, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, May 15, 2022.

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  • Space

A total lunar eclipse happened Tuesday — and it won't happen again for 3 years

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the moon fell completely into Earth's shadow and turned a shade of red — either an astronomical delight or Election Day omen, depending on who you ask.

November 08, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
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