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NASA aiming for big 2023 thanks to generous budget request

The White House's generosity has NASA poised to do big things in 2023 and beyond, according to the space agency's deputy chief. "The $26 billion fiscal year 2023 budget request is 8% more than enacted federal spending levels for fiscal year 2022, ...

Former astronaut Scott Kelly launches 1st NFT, with sales supporting Ukraine

All net proceeds from the initial sale will go to a nonprofit helping Ukraine survive the Russian invasion.

Artemis moon program will boost science and private spaceflight, NASA says

Sending astronauts back to the moon will have considerable benefits both scientifically and economically, NASA officials stressed. That message came through during a discussion of NASA's Artemis program of lunar exploration that was held April 5 at the ...

NASA photos show the Perseverance Mars rover and tiny Ingenuity helicopter from space

In 2018, NASA's Perseverance rover and the first-ever Mars helicopter Ingenuity landed in Jezero Crater on the surface of the Red Planet. Now, a high-resolution camera on a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has captured the pair from orbit.

Spy Satellites Confirmed Our Discovery of the First Meteor from the Solar System

On January 8, 2014, at 17:05:34 UT, an approximately meter-sized rock from space streaked through the sky off the coast of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, burning up with an energy equivalent to about 110 metric tons of TNT and raining debris into the ...

SpaceX's Starship and NASA's SLS Could Supercharge Space Science

Astronomers breathed a collective sigh of relief as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sprung to life. Getting the $10-billion telescope up and running following its launch on Christmas Day 2021 had been a nerve-racking affair.

Massive comet will swing by the sun in 2031, Hubble observes

CNN

CNN

While most of the known comet nuclei measure a few miles across, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope spotted Comet C/2014 UN271 with a nucleus that reaches 85 miles across. That's more than twice the width of Rhode Island.

An Impossible Fossil: Scientists Find a Perfectly Preserved Thescelosaurus Leg from Dinosaurs' Last Day on Earth

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

The fossil belongs to the Thescelosaurus species, which is speculated to be unfeathered and very scaly like lizards, unlike their meat-eating contemporaries. And this particular leg fossil is so well preserved that it even includes remnants of the animal's ...

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Don't miss April's full Pink Moon this Saturday

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Sometimes during a full moon, part or all of Earth's shadow falls on the moon, making it a lunar eclipse. The next lunar eclipse will happen next month, on May 15-16, 2022, when a total lunar eclipse will turn the moon a rusty red, giving it the eerie ...

The full pink moon is coming Saturday evening. Will it actually be pink?

USA TODAY

USA TODAY

"April's full moon often corresponded with the early springtime blooms of a certain pink wildflower native to eastern North America: Phlox subulata – commonly called creeping phlox or moss phlox – which also went by the name "moss pink,'" the Old Farmer's ...