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NASA satellite aims to put climate research in new orbit
1 of 4 | NASA's Plankton Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem satellite is prepared at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla. It is…
NASA’s Fermi telescope discovers unknown gamma-ray pattern beyond our galaxy
An artist's concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays. The pink circles show the approximate direction where higher-energy gamma rays than normal…
DNA from ancient humans gives clues to common diseases
Northern Europeans have relatively high rates of multiple sclerosis because their farmer ancestors carried a gene protecting them from diseases…
Oceans absorbed record levels of heat in 2023, study finds
1 of 2 | A diver points to the change in color of a distressed brain coral as warmer than normal sea temperatures are affecting the…
Report: Huge primates died out because they couldn’t adapt to changing climate
Gigantopithecus blacki, a gigantic primate that lived in China hundreds of thousands of years ago, likely died out due to their inability to adapt…
NASA delays Artemis crewed launches, targets moon landing in 2026
1 of 4 | NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building stands at dusk at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in August. NASA announced Tuesday it…
First U.S. lunar lander to moon in decades suffers ‘critical loss of propellant’
1 of 8 | A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket launches at 2:18 a.m. EST Monday on its maiden flight from Complex 41 at the Cape…
ULA launches first U.S. lunar lander to moon in decades
1 of 3 | United Launch Alliance launched its first-ever Vulcan Centaur rocket early Monday from Florida's famous Cape Canaveral Space…
Navajo Nation opposes plans to send human remains to the moon
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches twin Amazon Project Kuiper satellites from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October 6.…
Peregrine mission, to launch Monday, will aid humans’ return to moon
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket rolls out from the Vertical Integration Facility to Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force…