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NASA has fueled the Roman Space Telescope for a launch that could map 100,000 new planets

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has received the propellant it needs to maneuver after launch, moving the ...

Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA’s Deep Space Network complex in Spain

A fast-moving wildfire, one of many raging across Spain, bore down on the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday, forcing an evacuation and temporarily suspending operations at one of NASA ...

NASA's new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch. Here's why it's so cool.

"We're going to find one-in-a-million things over and over and over again," a NASA scientist recently predicted.
New Scientist

One of NASA’s crucial links to deep space is at risk of burning down

NASA’s ability to communicate with its distant spacecraft is in jeopardy. We send commands to spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit and receive data from them using the Deep Space Network (DSN), which ...

Want to Live Like a Deep-Space Colonist for a Year? NASA Will Pay You to Do It

If you've ever fancied spending up to a year away from your loved ones and living in extremely close confines with three other people, now's your chance! NASA is looking for four recruits for a ...

How NASA is squeezing every last drop of plutonium out of Voyager 2

Voyager 2 runs on radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which turn heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. That heat ...
Orange County Register

JPL’s Deep Space Network team’s latest mission: Keeping Artemis II connected to Earth

It’s the farthest long-distance phone call in the known universe. When the astronauts of the Artemis II mission embark Wednesday on their scheduled journey beyond Earth’s orbit, in order to phone home ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Artemis 2 Will Test Human Health in Deep Space Like Never Before

The Artemis 2 astronauts will venture deeper into space than any human has gone before. That presents some seriously exciting research opportunities. Reading time 5 minutes The human body is a complex ...

NASA’s gravity maps show Earth’s gravity is uneven, with some anomalies linked to deep structures inside the planet rather than the surface we see

NASA's GRACE satellites mapped subtle variations in Earth's gravity field. These gravity anomalies originate from dense and ...