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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Our solar system has eight planets, and five officially recognized dwarf planets. Which planet is biggest? Which is smallest? What is the order of the planets as we move out from the Sun? This is a simple guide to the sizes of planets based on the equatorial diameter – orContinue reading “Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY They’re known as “living fossils”. For over 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have been an ecologically vital part of our planet. They’re one of the few surviving species on Earth dating back to the dinosaurs. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is oneContinue reading “Animal That Once Lived With Dinosaurs Helps Keep NASA Kennedy In Balance”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to invite small business start-ups to showcase innovative ideas and technologies with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals. To potentially leverage external funding sources for the development of innovative technologies of interest to NASA, SMD involved the ventureContinue reading “Entrepreneurs Challenge Winner PRISM is Using AI to Enable Insights from Geospatial Data”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA engineers are using one of the world’s lightest solid materials to construct an antenna that could be embedded into the skin of an aircraft, creating a more aerodynamic and reliable communication solution for drones and other future air transportation options.  Developed by NASA, this ultra-lightweight aerogel antenna is designedContinue reading “NASA Tests Ultralight Antennas to Benefit Future National Airspace”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and operates NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization andContinue reading “NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million years ago. The spacecraft has begun returning images that were collected as it flew approximately 600 miles (960 km) from the asteroid Donaldjohanson on AprilContinue reading “NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this photo released on April 14, 2025, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed the gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514. Using mid-infrared data showed the “fuzzy” clumps arranged in tangled patterns, and a network of clearer holes close to the centralContinue reading “Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From the iconic image of Earthrise taken by Apollo 8 crew, to the famous Pale Blue Dot image of Earth snapped by Voyager I spacecraft, to state-of-the-art observations of our planet by new satellites such as PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), NASA has given us novel ways to seeContinue reading “Celebrating Earth as Only NASA Can”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, April 18, 2025 As the APXS operations person today, I was hopeful that we could plan a compositional measurement after brushing one of the bedrock blocks in front of the rover. However, it soon became clear thatContinue reading “Sols 4515-4517: Silver Linings”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Following the successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 32nd Commercial Resupply Services mission, new scientific experiments and supplies are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying approximately 6,700 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA, lifted off at 4:15 a.m. EDT Monday, on the company’sContinue reading “NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 32nd SpaceX Resupply Station Mission”