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NASA’s Prithvi Becomes First AI Geospatial Foundation Model In Orbit

A team of researchers demonstrated NASA and IBM’s open-source Prithvi Geospatial artificial intelligence foundation model ...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Frees Its Drill From a Rock

This series of images shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm and ...
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For NASA’s TESS, Stellar Eclipses Shed Light on Possible New Worlds

A study of NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data on stellar pairs undergoing mutual eclipses has uncovered ...
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New NASA HEAT Coloring Book Blends Art, Science, and Cultural Perspectives

A new Sun-centered and science-focused coloring book produced by NASA in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks ...
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NASA’s Next-Gen Near-Earth Asteroid Space Telescope Takes Shape

NASA’s first infrared space telescope purposely designed to discover potentially hazardous asteroids and comets — is ...
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NASA Research Shows Early Life Relied on Rare Metal

NASA-funded scientists have discovered that life on Earth over 3 billion years ago relied on the metal molybdenum, which was ...
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Surveys ‘Crocodile Bridge’

Z camera system to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region nicknamed “Crocodile Bridge” on Jezero Crater’s rim. The panorama is made up of 980 images, 971 of which were taken on Dec. 18, 2025, ...
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NASA’s STORIE Mission to Tell Tale of Earth’s Ring Current

NASA is preparing to launch a mission designed to provide a unique, inside-out view of the ring current. Called STORIE (Storm ...
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Volunteers Help NASA Astronauts Record Lunar Flashes

As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids ...
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You Can Help Humans Thrive in Space

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not ...
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Hubble Spots a Starry Spiral

In this new picture from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a spiral galaxy glittering with star clusters is the center of attention. NGC 3137 is located 53 million light-years away in the constellation ...
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Sun Releases Strong Solar Flare

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – seen as the bright flash on the far right – on May 13, 2025. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that ...