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See it: NASA's asteroid-chasing spacecraft slingshots past Earth

It's not often that a deep-space robotic explorer swings back by its home planet, but NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission did just ...

The overview effect: Astronaut perspectives from 25 years in low Earth orbit

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our ...
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NASA's Perseverance rover detects giant sunspot 15 times wider than Earth rotating toward our planet

Perseverance's main job is Martian weather forecasting, but its routine solar scans on November 25 unexpectedly detected the ...
GeekWire

Microsoft collaborates with NASA on Earth Copilot, an AI guide to our planet’s data

Microsoft and NASA have joined forces to develop Earth Copilot, a software tool that uses artificial intelligence and cloud computing to simplify the process of searching and analyzing Earth science ...
insider.si.edu

Smithsonian and NASA Partner to Open Exhibition Exploring Ever-Changing Earth from Space and on the Ground

A large Hyperwall—a giant video screen used to display NASA’s Earth Information Center data—will be the centerpiece of “NASA’s Earth Information Center at the National Museum of Natural History.” ...
New York Post

NASA makes discovery ‘as important as gravity’ about Earth — and possibly life on other planets

NASA scientists have discovered an electric field encompassing Earth’s atmosphere that is as “fundamental” as gravity — and could even give clues about possible life on other planets. A team of NASA ...
Futurism

Debris From When NASA Smashed Asteroid Appears to Be Headed Back Toward Earth

When NASA deliberately smashed the asteroid Dimorphos with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft back in 2022, it was seen as a technological triumph because it demonstrated that ...

How was the first full-colour photograph of Earth captured by NASA

NASA's 1967 ATS-3 satellite captured Earth's first true-colour image, revolutionizing weather forecasting and planetary understanding. This breakthrou ...

NASA Releases Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS: It ‘Doesn’t Look Like a Spacecraft’

With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an ...
SpaceNews

Duffy comments seed doubts about future of NASA Earth science

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) 2 spacecraft is one of many science missions at NASA targeted for termination in the 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — Comments by NASA’s ...
Houston Chronicle

NASA discovers new asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. Here's what you need to know.

NASA officials have discovered a new asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in December 2032. The near-Earth asteroid has been named 2024 YR4 and is estimated to be 40 to 90 meters wide.