The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

The mission would be the first to try to return rock samples from Mars to Earth so scientists ... budget cuts. NASA is also feeling the heat from Congress. For fiscal year 2024, the Senate ... Read More

NASA seeks help from private companies for expensive Mars Sample Return mission

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from $5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip to ... Read More

NASA to overhaul mission returning samples from Mars—here's why it must and will go ahead

NASA recently announced that it is seeking new ways to complete the return to Earth of rock cores drilled by the Perseverance Rover in the Jezero Crater on Mars. This has led to some anxiety among ... Read More

Contact restored with NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe

NASA has regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists announced Monday. Read More

Scientists gear up to study solar eclipse with high-altitude planes and sun-orbiting probes

and the eclipse gives us a unique opportunity to collect data that may give insights into the future of our star,” Melroy said in a news briefing last week. Scientists are interested in the ... Read More

NASA findings from the last year including extraordinary asteroid samples, galactic discoveries

The findings of NASA are abundant. Here are just a few of NASA’s big discoveries from the past year. Bennu asteroid sample ... a planetary scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder ... Read More

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New Beta-Decay Measurements in Mirror Nuclei Pin Down the Weak Nuclear Force Apr. 19, 2024 — Scientists have gained insights into the weak nuclear force from new, more sensitive studies of the ... Read More

NASA looking for ‘citizen scientists’ to photograph solar eclipse to help map the sun

NASA has teamed up with Western Kentucky University to develop an app to track April’s solar eclipse on a cell phone — and they are looking for “citizen scientists” to snap photos of the ... Read More

Scientists Figured Out How to Probe the Boundary of the Solar System

While NASA has sent two probes out past our heliosphere—Voyager ... And in a new study led by the University of Michigan (U-M), scientists propose the best path that a future spacecraft could ... Read More

Debris From NASA Smashing Asteroid Could Strike Mars, Scientists Find

In other words, NASA's DART mission wasn't just a resounding success in humanity's first attempt to divert an asteroid ... surprising scientists with just how much material was sent flying. Read More

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After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way ... Read More

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