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Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space
SPACE.com· 5 days agoNASA's mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche has fired up its ion engines and is now cruising...
NASA’s Psyche Fires Up Its Sci-Fi-Worthy Thrusters - NASA
NASA· 6 days agoThe spacecraft already is beyond the distance of Mars and is using ion propulsion to accelerate...
Safety first: NASA pledges to use AI carefully and responsibly
SPACE.com· 6 days agoNASA will keep safety front of mind while harnessing the ever-growing power of artificial intelligence, agency officials stressed. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology ...
NASA's compact infrared cameras enable new science
Phys.org· 6 days agoThe cameras use sensitive, high-resolution strained-layer superlattice sensors, initially developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,...
How can we protect satellites in Earth-moon space? This new software could help
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAnd this month, a NASA report concluded that shrinking the timeline to deorbit defunct spacecraft to...
Bright comet headed toward Earth could be visible with the naked eye
LiveScience· 18 hours agoIn a year in which we have already been treated to the "Great North American Solar Eclipse" in April and one of the greatest displays of Northern Lights in the past 500 years in May, what other ...
Fireball streaks across Montana sky
KPAX Missoula· 7 days agoA dazzling sight caught some people by surprise as it streaked across the Montana sky on Monday, May 20, 2024. Jen Graf shared video of the the fireball that was captured on her home security ...
The original 'Mr. Eclipse:' How a 19th-century astronomer calculated the dates of over 13,000...
SPACE.com· 4 days agoSpace Flight Center. The first total solar eclipse Espenak saw was in March 1970, which sparked his...
Ed Dwight, the U.S.'s first Black astronaut candidate on making it to space at 90
NPR· 3 days agoSIMON: Did you see anything up there that inspires your sculpture, something you might do in the future? DWIGHT: Well, you know, I never got far away from NASA. NASA ...
Lost photos suggest Mars' mysterious moon Phobos may be a trapped comet in disguise
LiveScience· 6 days agoMars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally...