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NASA Invites Media, Public to Join Voyager 1 One-Light Day Activities

Launched nearly 50 years ago in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 on Wednesday, Nov. 18 will have traveled one light-day from Earth, which is more than 16 billion miles (25.9 billion kilometers). Voyager 1 is ...
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NASA Awards Moon Base Transportation, Technology, Science Projects

To demonstrate those capabilities, NASA awarded six task orders as part of the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of ...
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Mars Sample Return

Mars Sample Return is a proposed mission to return samples from the surface of Mars to Earth. Mars Sample Return is a proposed mission to return samples from the surface of Mars to Earth. The mission ...
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Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, or AIRS, instrument is a key tool for climate studies on greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide distribution, as well as weather forecasts. The Atmospheric Infrared ...
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What’s Up: November 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Catch Taurid and Leonid meteors, spot Mars near Jupiter, celebrate Voyager 1's light-day milestone, and watch November's supermoon. That’s What’s Up for November. November offers a buffet of ...
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Explorer 3

Explorer 3 was the third satellite of the Explorer mission series and the first successful follow-on to Explorer 1, which made history when in January 1958 it became the United States' first space ...
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Ranger 9

Ranger 9 was the last of the Ranger series of spacecraft launched in the 1960s to explore the moon and was designed to image and impact the moon's crater Alphonsus, which was thought to be the site of ...
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NASA-funded Study Details One of Oldest Mars Meteorites Ever Found

Called Teghaza 001, the rock is from a piece of Mars that formed more than 4.1 billion years ago.
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New Study Maps Rate of New Orleans Sinking

New Orleans and surrounding areas continue to sink due to a combination of natural and human-induced processes, finds a new NASA/university study using NASA airborne radar. › Highest-resolution study ...
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Kepler Exoplanet Mission

Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a ...
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The History of Johannes Kepler

Four centuries ago, an evening's entertainment was as simple as stepping out to gaze at the night sky. But among the world's many star watchers, one man stood apart. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a ...
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Opportunity Rover

Opportunity was the second of the two rovers launched in 2003 to land on Mars and begin traversing the Red Planet in search of signs of ancient water. Opportunity was the second of the two rovers ...