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NEW YORK (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. The new member of the lunar gang, announced Tuesday by NASA, appears to be just six miles (10 kilometers) wide. It was spotted by the telescope’s near-infrared camera during observations in February. Scientists think it hid for so long — even eluding the Voyager …

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 2:45 a.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 24, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA. Filled with more than 5,000 pounds of supplies, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket will …

Houston, we have a problem. Junk Science In a major blow to climate change science, NASA is officially not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration. During a Fox Business news segment, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy (who also happens to be the Secretary of Transportation) dropped the bombshell during a live interview …

Sprites, also called red sprites, are TLEs that occur high above thunderstorm clouds or cumulonimbus, triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms. While sprites themselves are not everyday events, further study of the image revealed that what Ayers caught wasn’t a sprite, but a rarer TLE called a gigantic jet. A gigantic jet happens above thunderstorms, firing powerful bursts …

NASA and Google are collaborating to test an AI-powered medical assistant designed to support astronauts on long-duration missions, where communication delays with Earth make real-time medical consultations impossible. NASA, which is committed to a new era of human spaceflight with its Artemis program, is working with Google to test a proof of concept for a Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant …

Stunning New NASA Perseverance Rover Images Show Mars Clearer Than Ever Before  SciTechDaily What would Mars look like in daylight? ‘Enhanced’ photo from Perseverance offers a look  USA Today Clear skies on Mars as NASA rover captures one of the sharpest panoramas of the Red Planet ever taken  BBC Sky at Night Magazine Clearest Mars images yet reveal mystery rock and ancient terrain …

REDMOND, Wash. — NASA’s Artemis campaign is a bold series of missions to take humans back to the moon… and those astronauts will get there thanks to help from rocket engines made right here in Washington! “If we didn’t make these engines, then there wouldn’t be any sort of orbital maneuvering system, there wouldn’t be a way for the crew …

REDMOND, Wash. — NASA’s Artemis campaign is a bold series of missions to take humans back to the moon… and those astronauts will get there thanks to help from rocket engines made right here in Washington! “If we didn’t make these engines, then there wouldn’t be any sort of orbital maneuvering system, there wouldn’t be a way for the crew …

While most people witness only the familiar crack of thunder and flash of lightning from storms on Earth, brilliantly-colorful electric fireworks detonate much higher, in the thin air up to 55 miles overhead, easily seen from the ISS. These brief spectacles – blue jets, red sprites, violet halos, ultraviolet rings – are collectively known as transient luminous events, or TLEs. …

Blue Origin is gearing up for the second-ever launch of its powerful New Glenn rocket, which will loft NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars. The company says it has been working closely with NASA on preparations leading up to New Glenn’s next launch, dubbed NG-2, and is targeting no earlier than (NET) Sep. 29. The twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration …