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NASA's Starliner Astronauts Take Their First Spacewalk Together After Roughly Eight Months on the ISS

Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, who have spent an unexpected eight months on the International Space Station (ISS)—took their first spacewalk together on Thursday. “Here we go,” said Wilmore as he emerged into space,

USA Today · 6h

NASA astronaut Suni Williams becomes woman with most hours spent on spacewalks

NASA astronaut Suni Williams set a female spacewalk record after venturing outside the International Space Station with fellow Boeing Starliner crew member.

Space on MSN · 1d

NASA astronaut Suni Williams sets new record on 5.5-hour spacewalk outside ISS (video)

Suni Williams surpasses the most time by a woman on EVA during a spacewalk with Butch Wilmore outside the International Space Station.

NASA finds 'key to life'

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Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.

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NASA finds 'key to life' in Bennu asteroid samples

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

Reuters · 1d

Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such space rocks may have seeded early Earth with the raw ingredients that fostered the emergence of living organisms.

Earth, asteroid and NASA

CNN · 10h

A newly discovered asteroid has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

Mashable on MSN · 15h

NASA spotted a big asteroid that may hit Earth — what you should know

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — a global network of telescopes funded by NASA to find Earth-threatening objects — spotted the asteroid 2024 YR4 in December

Chronicle Live on MSN · 15h

Asteroid placed at top of NASA risk list with chance it could hit Earth in 2032

The newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 is thought to be large enough to wipe out a city and has triggered global defence plans

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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

NASA Satellites Show How California’s Wildfire Crisis Was Years in the Making

The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires ...

Assessing Claims About NASA’s Two ‘Stranded’ Astronauts

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk announced this week that SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Musk, will be ...

NASA spacecraft flew by distant world. It saw unprecedented volcanism.

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

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The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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How a new NASA satellite could help solve the global temperature spike mystery

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

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NASA rules out immediate Crew-9 return, saying astronauts will come back “as soon as practical”

NASA appears to be retaining existing plans to return astronauts from the International Space Station after calls to bring ...

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NASA Jet Propulsion Lab opens doors after LA fires, helps firefighter helicopters refuel

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab begins normal operations after devastating LA fires as hundreds of employees who were displaced ...

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