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As NASA’s Perseverance rover, a car-sized robotic explorer, looks for signs of possible ancient life on Mars, it has stumbled across some interesting things. Recently, on Aug. 31 (the 1,610th sol, or Martian day, of its mission), Perseverance captured an image of this rock, which looks like the head of a turtle coming out of its shell. What is it? …

Going to space could speed up biological ageing, NASA study finds  Euronews.com Spaceflight Accelerates Human Stem Cell Aging, UC San Diego Researchers Find  UC San Diego Today Space travel ‘speeds up ageing’  The Telegraph Stem Cells Age Faster in Space  the-scientist.com Spaceflight Accelerates Human Aging, Study Finds  extremetech.com Source link

WASHINGTON — NASA has named Amit Kshatriya as its new associate administrator in a move meant to emphasize the role of exploration at the agency. NASA announced Sept. 3 that its acting administrator, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, appointed Kshatriya to the post, the agency’s top-ranking civil service job. The position had been filled on an acting basis since early this …

Sean Duffy Is Stuck Inside The Fox Bubble  NASA Watch Source link

On July 1, 2025, the Deep Random Survey remote telescope in Chile, part of the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) project, spotted a new comet. But it wasn’t just any old comet: This one isn’t gravitationally bound by the sun, which means it originated outside of our solar system. Named 3I/ATLAS, the comet is only the third known interstellar …

NASA Briefed Employees This Morning (Audio)  NASA Watch NASA names exploration official as associate administrator  SpaceNews Moon-to-Mars veteran Amit Kshatriya named NASA associate administrator  Space Acting NASA Administrator Duffy Selects Exploration-Focused Associate Administrator  NASA (.gov) Indian-American veteran named NASA’s associate administrator. Who is he?  Hindustan Times Source link

Is JPL Anti-Union?  NASA Watch Source link

When people think of NASA, despite all the work it does monitoring the Earth’s climate and exploring the bodies of the Solar System, most people’s minds go to the Apollo era, when the US space agency repeatedly put humans on the Moon.  But Apollo was not the agency’s first steps into space, as newly restored photos from the pre-Apollo era …

You Cannot Win A Space Race By Complaining  NASA Watch Source link

A remarkable geological phenomenon has been observed in the floodplains of Kazakhstan, where a colossal sandy formation, nicknamed the “sandy slug,” is slowly moving across the landscape. This unusual event has been documented by both ground observations and satellite imagery, including striking images from NASA’s Earth Observatory, which captured the dune field’s gradual migration. Scientists are particularly intrigued by how …