NASA’s Webb telescope gets a never-before-seen look at how moons form on exoplanets

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

Are We Alone? NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Aims to Find Out

Hundreds of scientists and engineers, NASA leaders, lobbyists, congressional staffers and Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona are also discussing the search for ET. Surveilling alien worlds for signs of ...

Simulating Habitable Worlds Observatory's ability to characterize Earth-sized exoplanets

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other ...
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Nasa observatory falling towards Earth. There is a plan to push it away

Swift, launched in 2004 and parked in low-Earth orbit at around 585 km above the planet, is gradually losing altitude due to ...
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NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

NASA Launches Mission to Map the Bubble Around Our Solar System

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...

To save aging space observatory, NASA taps startup to push it farther in space

NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by ...
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NASA partners with Katalyst to reboost $500 million Swift Observatory

NASA has awarded a contract to execute a high-stakes orbital maneuver, racing against time and atmospheric drag to prevent a critical science asset from tumbling back to Earth. The target of this ...
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Private spacecraft will give NASA's Swift space telescope an orbital boost in 2026 in 1st-of-its-kind mission

Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift ...
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NASA's IMAP spacecraft getting packed up for launch | Space photo of the day for Sept. 24, 2025

This spacecraft is one of three dedicated to studying solar wind and its effects on space weather. It launched today (Sept.

SpaceX launches 3 probes for NASA, NOAA to study space weather

SpaceX launched a trio of spacecraft Wednesday morning, each meant to study the sun and space weather, and their affects on ...
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Private Spacecraft to Boost NASA Telescope's Orbit for the First Time

It's another example of NASA relying more on private enterprise for its orbital infrastructure and maintenance.