Tag: NASA
NASA launches study of UFOs despite ‘reputational risk’
By AP and published by ABC News Cape Canaveral, Fla. – NASA is launching a study of UFOs as part of a new push toward high-risk, high-impact science. The space agency announced on Thursday that it’s setting up an independent team to see how much information is publicly available on the matter and how …
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Touchdown! Perseverance lands successfully on Mars
By Mike Wall, Space.com YOU can exhale now: NASA’s Perseverance rover has landed safely on Mars. The car-sized Perseverance, the most advanced robot ever sent to the Red Planet, aced its “seven minutes of terror” touchdown this afternoon (Feb. 18), alighting gently on an ancient lakebed inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater …
NASA spacecraft sends back images of stars from 4.3 billion miles away
(CNN) – From its unique vantage point 4.3 billion miles from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured images of nearby stars — and the stars appear to be in different positions than where we see them from Earth. This is the first time this kind of “parallax effect” has been captured using a spacecraft. …
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