NASA
- Formed: July 29, 1958
- Location: Kennedy Space Center
- Related: Space Force
- Status: Active
Latest NASA News
NASA Tips Their Hat To Cosmos With A Gorgeous Space Gallery
While Cosmos may not have lived up to Fox’s ratings expectations, it was still a humbling primer on our vast, …
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SpaceX To Launch Missions for the U.S. Military
SpaceX seems to be taking the world—make that the universe—by storm. The private contractor hauls cargo to the ISS, and …
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Gravity Gets Congratulations From ISS And Lookalike Imagery From NASA
This past Sunday saw the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences giving sciencey fiction its just rewards by granting …
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NASA Starts Planning Robotic Mission To Europa
One of my favorite films, Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me is partly a cautionary tale about what happens when curiosity …
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NASA Finds 715 New Exoplanets Beneath The Universe’s Couch Cushions
Much like an over-the-hill cinematic boxer, everyone had pretty much given up on the Kepler Telescope once its instruments started …
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MythBusters’ Adam Savage Shows Off His Gorgeous Mercury Spacesuit Replica
Adam Savage’s life is just frankly unfair. It’s bad enough that he gets paid to blow things up, put Hollywood’s …
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Our Moon May Not Be Able To Have Its Own Mini-Moon, But A Meteorite Recently Exploded On The Lunar Surface
When you realize that planets like Saturn have 60 moons, and Jupiter has 63, you have to wonder whether moons …
ESA’s Cosmic Vision Includes New Planet-Hunting Mission
NASA likes to boast about its planet-hunting capabilities thanks to both the Kepler and the Hubble telescopes. But NASA’s not …
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Dying Stars Slosh Around When They Go Supernova
As Carl Sagan always said, “We’re made of star-stuff.” That’s because dying stars explode, expelling stardust — which scientists now …
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ISS Cold Atom Lab Will Be The Most Frigid Place In The Universe
The ISS has its share of haters. There are many people who believe the station is a colossal waste of …
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Opportunity Rover Solves Rock Mystery
A few weeks ago, the Opportunity Rover’s cameras picked up a mystery rock on Mars. The rock, which was compared …
There Might Be Water Flowing On Mars Right Now
Earlier in the Curiosity Rover‘s travels around the Red Planet it gleaned a bunch of information about the water-soaked soil, …
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NASA Program Aims To Put Commercial Landers On The Moon, Stirs Property Rights Debate
NASA recently announced a new initiative called Lunar CATALYST (Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown) and is seeking proposals …
Meet Dream Chaser, America’s Next Space Shuttle
As you probably know, President Obama announced his decision to end NASA’s space shuttle program Constellation back in 2010. Since …
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Why You Have NASA To Thank For The Super Bowl
In a few hours, an absurd number of people will watch the spectacle that is the Super Bowl. And they’ll …
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Happy Tenth Anniversary, Opportunity
Ten years might not seem old, but for a rover that was only meant to conduct a three-month-long mission, a …
Mystery Rock Appears On Mars
Meteorite? Rover antics? Elvis? All of these theories are on the table when it comes to the mysterious rock that …
NASA’s Only A Year Away From Pluto
Pluto may not be a full-fledged planet anymore, but that doesn’t mean we’re not interested in checking it out, even …
ISS Gets A Four-Year Extension
I’m not sure if you knew that the International Space Station had a pre-planned death date. Maybe that’s being melodramatic. …
Apollo 13 Disaster Unfolds In Real Time In These Archival Videos
There’s a very good chance you’re familiar with the nearly tragic events surrounding NASA’s famed Apollo 13 mission, and a …
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Russia Plans To Send Probe To Ganymede
Jupiter is set to give Mars and Saturn a run for their money when it comes to being the most …
NASA Scientists Control Robotic Arm With Kinect And Oculus Rift
Robots in space — two great tastes that taste great together. They might go to Mars ahead of the humans …
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Cassini Offers A New Glimpse Of The Pale Blue Dot
Given my fascination with the universe, my love for Carl Sagan, and my hopes that the reboot of Cosmos will …
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DARPA’s Robotics Challenge Narrows The Field To Eight Finalists
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, where teams compete to design and develop disaster response robots, kicked off in June, with the software-based …
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Merry Christmas! Astronauts Conduct Emergency Repairs On ISS Cooling System
Unless his flying reindeer are truly amazing, like Falcor, Santa probably doesn’t make it to space. Or maybe he does, …
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Asteroid Hunting Spacecraft NEOWISE Is Back In Business
Forget diamonds — asteroids are the hottest rocks out there. And unlike most objects, celestial or otherwise, asteroids have a …
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Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s Superhero Robot
We’ve done lots of posts here on GFR about NASA, many of which bemoan the state and the budget of …
Want To Help Scientists Discover New Antibiotics?
NASA has proven adept at crowdsourcing — it leverages the exuberance and talents of students to build nanosatellites or to …
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Ex-NASA Engineer Creates Matrix-Style Bullet-Time Effect
If you’ve ever seen the Matrix (and honestly, who among you hasn’t?), you’ve likely marveled at the special effects, particularly …
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Saturn’s Hexagonal Hurricane In The Spotlight In New Cassini Footage
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is the gift that keeps on giving. The photos it provides us of Saturn, the most picturesque …
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