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NASA’s Psyche Mission Tracks Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

NASA’s Psyche observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over the course of eight hours on Sept. 8 and 9, when the comet was about 33 million miles (53 million ...
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NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM ...
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NASA’s PUNCH Tracks Comet Discovered by SOHO Spacecraft

From August to October, NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission tracked comet 2025 R2 (SWAN) — one of the thousands of comets ...
NASA

Your Name in Landsat

Download this year’s Earth Day Poster and see your name in Landsat. With NASA’s “Your Name in Landsat” online interactive, users can type in their name, then view and export the graphic of that name ...
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Eclipse Soundscapes Volunteers Still Engaged in Scientific Discovery Post-Eclipse

The NASA Science Activation project Eclipse Soundscapes (ES), led by ARISA Lab in Medford, Massachusetts, helps learners of all ages explore NASA science ...
NASA

MissionScience Has Been Retired

MissionScience (http://missionscience.nasa.gov) has been retired. We encourage you to visit https://science.nasa.gov to learn about NASA science and other ...
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10 Interesting Things About Glaciers

When you wear dark clothing on a hot day, your clothes absorb the sun's heat and make you warmer. Land and ocean water are dark, warming as they absorb most of the energy coming in from the sun. But, ...