Get ready to see another world from the eyes of a dragonfly — at least, a robotic one.

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A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.

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Nancy Grace Roman, the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA and who helped with development of the Hubble Space Telescope, has died.

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InfoZen LLC, a Bethesda cloud broker and provider of information technology services, was involved in supporting nasa.gov during the Aug. 21 solar eclipse, for which NASA said it had record online viewership. InfoZen, NASA and others worked to plan, test, integrate and launch ...

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UPDATE — NASA says it has delayed until Wednesday morning the release of luminescent clouds above the Mid-Atlantic coast to test a new system to support studies of the ionosphere. The launch of a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket testing a new deployment ...

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The University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County have been awarded an $87.5 million research agreement through the Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology, the universities announced Thursday. The contract runs ...

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One thing that no deep-space mission needs is a battery that could burst into flames. But lithium-ion batteries — found in everything from cell phones and laptops and to jumbo jets — can do just that if they fail; just ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  — It’s official: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has gotten humanity’s first up-close look at Pluto, The spacecraft sent word of its triumph Tuesday across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly back home. Confirmation of mission success ...

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NASA expects to save millions of dollars sending astronauts to the International Space Station, once its commercial crew program starts flying in a couple of years. SpaceX and Boeing said Monday that they are on track to carry out their ...

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Three high school graduates from Maryland selected to work on NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, an instrument built to measure the atmosphere's clouds and particles from space and scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station on Tuesday.

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