The first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured.
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Read More »July 12, 2022 Comments Off on NASA space telescope’s 1st cosmic view goes deep
The first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured.
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Read More »June 28, 2019 Comments Off on NASA plans to send a drone to Saturn’s largest moon
Get ready to see another world from the eyes of a dragonfly — at least, a robotic one.
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Read More »January 3, 2019 Comments Off on NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman
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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Read More »December 28, 2018 Comments Off on Nancy Grace Roman, involved with Hubble telescope, dies
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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Read More »August 29, 2017 Comments Off on Md. cloud broker shines for NASA during solar eclipse
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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Read More »May 30, 2017 Comments Off on NASA delays until Wednesday release of artificial clouds above the Maryland coast
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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Read More »March 30, 2017 Comments Off on UMD, UMBC part of $87.5M NASA research agreement
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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Read More »August 18, 2015 Comments Off on UMD team gets $1 million from NASA to develop battery
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 ...
Read More »July 14, 2015 Comments Off on Triumph for NASA, Hopkins: Spacecraft’s Pluto flyby confirmed
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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Read More »January 26, 2015 Comments Off on SpaceX flights could save NASA money
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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