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NASA astronauts prepare for return to Earth

NASA's two stuck astronauts are finally closing in on their return to Earth after 9 months in space

NASA’s two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have to wait until their replacements arrive at the International Space Station next week before they can check out later this month.

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Elon Musk’s offer to bring home stranded astronauts never reached the space station, say NASA astronauts who are still in orbit after 9 months

SpaceX will bring two NASA astronauts back from the International Space Station this month after a damaged spacecraft extended their eight-day journey into a nine-month commision. SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk said he believes the two astronauts were stuck in space for political reasons and he could have rescued them sooner.

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NASA astronauts stranded on space station should return to Earth by mid-March

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are still aboard the International Space Station. Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer into SIMP 0136, a free-floating object traveling through the Milky Way galaxy. "It feels like an afterthought in a lot of ways."

NASA is making sacrifices to keep Voyager mission alive

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NASA is making sacrifices to keep the Voyager mission alive

It’s been 47 years since the twin Voyager spacecraft started their historic mission. Having travelled through interstellar space, farther from Earth than any other human-made objects, their nuclear batteries are depleting — but NASA is taking measures to squeeze as much life out of the aging probes as possible.

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NASA makes crucial move to keep its legendary Voyager craft alive

Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now has just three running after NASA turned off another gadget to conserve its finite nuclear fuel supply.

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NASA powers down two Voyager science instruments to extend mission life

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb. 25 and will shut off Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24.

NASA: Asteroid 2024 YR4 not a threat to Earth. But the moon is still in the region of uncertainty

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

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Mars may have a solid inner core just like Earth

Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...

A NASA test just proved GPS signals can be picked up on the moon

NASA and the Italian Space Agency say they have broken the record for the farthest detection of Earth-based navigation signals from 243,000 miles away in space .

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NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

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SpaceX, NASA to launch 1st mission to study aurora 'electrojets' in Earth's atmosphere

Scientists have been wondering about auroral electrojets for a long time. This mission could change how we understand them.

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Odds of asteroid YR4 2024 hitting Earth in 2032 go up, then down again, in latest NASA analysis

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope

A modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions will soon launch into an orbit around Earth. Here's why scientists are ...

NASA Just Mapped California’s Sinking Cities – See If Your Area Is Affected

Scientists have uncovered dramatic shifts in California’s coastal landscape, revealing areas that are either sinking or ...

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