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3I/ATLAS is a comet, not aliens, NASA says

NASA "very much wants to find signs of life in the universe," said associate administrator Amit Kshatriya, but the interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS was not it. The US space agency…

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NASA astronauts return to Earth after nine months in space

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after…

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Spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life

NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida on a mission to examine whether Jupiter's moon Europa has conditions suitable to support life, with a focus on the large subsurface ocean believed…

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Mars rover data confirms ancient lake sediments on red planet

By Steve Gorman OS ANGELES, Jan 26 (Reuters) - NASA's rover Perseverance has gathered data confirming the existence of ancient lake sediments deposited by water that once filled a giant…

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NASA delays astronaut moon landing to 2026 amid spacecraft ‘challenges’

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - NASA on Tuesday added more delays to its Artemis moon program, scheduling for 2026 its first astronaut lunar landing in half a century while…

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NASA warns Moon’s resources could be ‘destroyed by thoughtless exploitation’

Science and business are heading for an astronomical clash – over the future exploration of the moon and the exploitation of its resources. The celestial skirmish threatens to break out…

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NASA to unveil first newly returned near-Earth asteroid sample

NASA was set on Wednesday to provide a first peek for the public at what scientists found inside a tightly sealed canister that was returned to Earth last month carrying…

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NASA’s first asteroid sample on track for Sunday parachute landing in Utah

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled…

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NASA panel sees no alien evidence; names chief of UFO research

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls "unidentified anomalous phenomenon," or UAP, while the…

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Photo Story: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Splashdown off the coast of Jacksonville

A handout picture made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts…

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Crashed Russian mission left a crater on the moon, NASA images show

MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Russia's failed Luna-25 mission left a 10-metre wide crater on the moon when it crashed last month after a problem preparing for a soft landing…

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NASA warns July 2023 likely to be warmest month on record

July of 2023 is likely to be the warmest month on record in "hundreds, if not thousands, of years," said NASA's top scientists in a roundtable with reporters, warning that…

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NASA sees moon lunar mining trial within the next decade

BRISBANE, (Reuters) - NASA is looking to develop resources on the moon that initially include oxygen and water, and eventually may expand to iron and rare earths, and has already…

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NASA UFO panel in first public meeting says better data needed

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - Members of an independent NASA panel studying UFOs, or what the U.S. government now terms UAP for "unidentified anomalous phenomena," said…

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SpaceX launches latest space station crew to orbit for NASA

By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, March 2 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched a four-man crew to orbit en route to the International Space…

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SpaceX set to launch next International Space Station crew for NASA

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX was set to launch early on Monday the International Space Station's next long-duration team into orbit, with an astronaut from…

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NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth, capping Artemis I flight around moon

Dec 11 (Reuters) - NASA's Orion capsule barreled through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural…

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NASA’s Orion capsule heads for splashdown after Artemis I flight around moon

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman Dec 11 (Reuters) - NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule hurtled through space on Sunday on the final return leg of its voyage around the moon…

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NASA launches Artemis rocket on test flight to moon

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov 16 (Reuters) - NASA's towering next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday on its debut flight, a…

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Divers find Challenger space shuttle wreckage off Florida coast

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Divers from a documentary crew looking for the wreckage of a World War Two aircraft off the coast of Florida found a 20-foot section of the…

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Asteroid’s path altered in NASA’s first test of planetary defense system

(Reuters) - The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time…

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NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft nears planned impact with its target

Sept 26 (Reuters) - Ten months after launch, NASA's asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a test of the world's first planetary defense…

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Update – NASA calls off Artemis moon rocket launch for second time in 5 days

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 3 (Reuters) - For the second time in five days, NASA on Saturday halted a countdown in progress and postponed a planned attempt to launch the debut test…

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WATCH: NASA’s next-generation megarocket set for debut test launch to moon

NASA's colossal next-generation rocketship was set for its long-awaited debut launch on Monday on an uncrewed, six-week test flight around the moon and back, marking the first mission of the space agency's…

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NASA’s giant U.S. moon rocket emerges for debut launch

(Reuters) - NASA's gigantic Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long crawl to its launchpad night ahead of the behemoth's debut test flight…

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China rejects NASA accusation it will take over the moon

BEIJING, July 4 (Reuters) - China on Monday rejected as an irresponsible smear a warning from the chief of NASA that China might "take over" the moon as part of a military…

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ESA expects strong NASA support after Mars mission suspended due to Ukraine war

BERLIN, June 22 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday that it expects strong support from its U.S. counterpart NASA after the European agency's plans to cooperate with Russia…

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NASA to form scientific team to study UFOs

NASA announced it plans to assemble a team of scientists to examine "unidentified aerial phenomena" - commonly termed UFOs - in the latest sign of the seriousness with which the…

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UPDATED: SpaceX launches ‘Crew 4’ astronauts on flight to space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 27 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched four more astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA on Wednesday, including a medical…

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WATCH: First all-private astronaut team aboard space station heads for splashdown

The first all-private astronaut crew to fly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) headed for splashdown Monday off the coast of Florida, wrapping up a two-week mission that NASA has…

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Russia warns sanctions could cause ISS to crash,

Sanctions against Russia could cause the International Space Station (ISS) to crash and lead to a 500-tonne structure to “fall down into the sea or onto land”, the head of…

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NASA raises concerns about SpaceX satellite deployment plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to deploy about 30,000 satellites for its Starlink, as have some major companies. Elon Musk's…

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International Space Station to crash down to Earth in 2031

The International Space Station (ISS) will continue working until 2030, before plunging into the Pacific Ocean in early 2031, according to Nasa. In a report this week, the US space…

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WATCH: NASA’s new space telescope reaches destination in solar orbit

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, designed to give the world an unprecedented glimpse of infant galaxies in the early stages of the universe, arrived at its gravitational parking spot in…

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NASA launches revolutionary space telescope to give glimpse of early universe

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, built to give the world its first glimpse of the universe as it existed when the earliest galaxies formed, was launched by rocket early Saturday…

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NASA resets spacewalk after ruling out immediate threat from orbital debris

A spacewalk planned for Tuesday to replace a faulty antenna on the International Space Station has been postponed for 48 hours, after mission control concluded that the position of orbital…

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Citing debris risk, NASA delays spacewalk to fix space station antenna

A spacewalk planned for Tuesday to repair a faulty antenna on the International Space Station was postponed indefinitely, NASA said, citing a "debris notification" it received for the orbiting research laboratory. Two U.S.…

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NASA launches test mission of asteroid-deflecting spacecraft

A spacecraft that must ultimately crash to succeed was launched late on Tuesday from California on a NASA mission to demonstrate the world's first planetary defense system, designed to deflect…

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NASA, SpaceX launch 4 more astronauts into orbit on flight to space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov 10 (Reuters) - NASA and private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit late on Wednesday, sending a veteran spacewalker, two younger crewmates chosen for…

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NASA pushes back time frame for human moon mission to 2025

NASA is extending its target date for sending astronauts back to the moon to 2025 at the earliest, the U.S. space agency's chief said, stretching out by at least a…

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VIDEO: SpaceX crew splashes down after return from International Space Station

Four astronauts strapped inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast on Monday, capping a six-month NASA science mission aboard the International…

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Photo Story: Arctic Sea ice has reached minimum extent for 2021

A handout picture made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of an image visualizing Arctic Sea ice on 16 September 2021, when the ice appeared to reach…

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NASA rover Perseverance collects first Martian rock sample

NASA's Mars science rover Perseverance has collected and stashed away the first of numerous mineral samples that the U.S. space agency hopes to retrieve from the surface of the Red…

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Slight chance of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth: NASA

An asteroid known as Bennu will pass within half the distance of the Earth to the Moon in the year 2135 but the probability of an impact with our planet…

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Russia blames software glitch after space station briefly thrown out of control

A software glitch, and possible lapse in human attention, were to blame for throwing the International Space Station out of control, but work was proceeding to activate a newly attached…

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International Space Station thrown out of control by misfire of Russian module -NASA

The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked…

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Moon ‘wobble,’ climate change seen as driving coastal flooding in 2030s

U.S. coastlines will face increasing flooding in the mid-2030s thanks to a regular lunar cycle that will magnify rising sea levels caused by climate change, according to research led by…

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Four astronauts return from space station aboard SpaceX capsule

Four astronauts returned safely to Earth from the International Space Station early on Sunday in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, parachuting to splash-down in the Gulf of Mexico, NASA said.…

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American astronaut Michael Collins of Apollo 11 fame dies at 90

(Reuters) - American astronaut Michael Collins, who stayed behind in the command module of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled to the lunar…

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Astronauts arrive at International Space Station

(Reuters) - A four-astronaut team arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour, NASA said, after becoming the first crew ever to be…

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SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station

NASA and Elon Musk's commercial rocket company SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight to the International Space Station early on Friday, the first crew ever propelled toward…

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NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency announced. The unprecedented…

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UPDATED: NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter makes first historic flight on Mars

NASA’s miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of another…

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Mars helicopter flight test promises Wright Brothers moment for NASA

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA hopes to score a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars in what would be the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on…

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Photo Story: Greetings from Mars

Handout photos made available by NASA shows the landscape surrounding NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, on Sol 52. NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Left Navigation Camera…

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Photo Story: NASA Perseverance Rover images from Mars surface

Handout photos made available by NASA and acquired using the rover's onboard Left Navigation Camera (Navcam), shows the landscape around NASA's Mars Perseverance rover, on Sol 45, the 45th Martian…

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NASA Mars scientists spur girls to ‘reach for the stars

With “one of the coolest jobs in the world”, NASA rover operator Vandi Verma hopes women’s high profile in the latest Mars mission will inspire a new generation to pursue…

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