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NASA Satellites Capture ‘River Tsunamis’ Surging Hundreds of Miles Inland
That’s according to researchers from Virginia Tech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who measured three large flood ...
NASA's Dragonfly mission sets sights on Titan's mysteries
When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn's moon Titan, NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar ...
SWOT satellite spots large-scale river waves for first time
In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech have used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
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Not-so-clean rooms: Scientists discover 26 new microbe species in NASA spacecraft facility
Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, along with researchers in India and Saudi ...
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'Strange' star pulses detected in search for extraterrestrial intelligence
A retired researcher has detected an unusual pulse in the light of nearby stars while looking for signs of extraterrestrial ...
NASA Tracking House-Sized Asteroids Approaching Earth Imminently
One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.
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Rare Moonlit Night On Mars Captured By Perseverance
The photo was captured at 4:27 am local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of Perseverance being on Mars ...
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Laurie Leshin stepping down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab
Laurie Leshin announced today (May 7) that she'll step down from her role as director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
NASA Just Found New Signs of Life Inside Venus – Geologic Life, That Is
New research reveals that Venus may still be geologically alive, with massive circular features pointing to hot plumes ...
Inside Krokodillen: NASA Hunts Signs of Life in Mars’ Oldest Rocks
NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached a scientifically thrilling region on Mars called Krokodillen, where some of the planet’s oldest rocks may hold vital clues about early Martian environments — ...