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NASA has been testing new autonomous driving and navigation capabilities for rovers designed to explore the Moon and Mars, bringing crewed and robotic exploration closer together.
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NASA is asking filmmakers, songwriters, poets and other storytellers to help share mission stories with the public.
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NASA shared Webb observations of Messier 51 as part of a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters in nearby galaxies.
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NASA has been testing new autonomous driving and navigation capabilities for rovers designed to explore the Moon and Mars, bringing crewed and ro…
June 19, 2026 · science · NASANASA is asking filmmakers, songwriters, poets and other storytellers to help share mission stories with the public.
May 25, 2026 · science · NASANASA shared Webb observations of Messier 51 as part of a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters in nearby galaxies.
May 24, 2026 · science · NASANASA’s Hubble team shared a fresh view of galaxy cluster MACS J1141.6-1905, adding another useful image to a deep public archive.
May 23, 2026 · science · NASANASA is asking teams about CubeSats that could fly on future Artemis missions, opening small doors for big science.
May 22, 2026 · science · NASA
NASA’s AWE mission has finished collecting data after mapping atmospheric waves from the International Space Station.
May 22, 2026 · science · NASANASA's 2026 technology-priority list folds in hundreds of stakeholder responses to guide future Moon, Mars and space-infrastructure work.
May 20, 2026 · science · NASANASA's new Shock Detectives citizen-science project lets volunteers help sort MMS mission data and improve understanding of how solar wind energy…
May 20, 2026 · science · NASA
A retired chicken farmer unknowingly built one of Australia's most remarkable prehistoric discoveries into his garden wall. Scientists have now i…
May 6, 2026 · science · fossil
A strange form of matter that 'ticks' forever without energy input has just taken a major leap toward practical use — scientists at Aalto Univers…
May 6, 2026 · science · quantum
Scientists at UC San Diego have created an injectable biomaterial that travels through the bloodstream to find and repair damaged tissue, reducin…
May 6, 2026 · science · medical breakthrough
Researchers at Edith Cowan University applied the physics concept of entropy to tourism and found that positive travel experiences may help the b…
May 5, 2026 · science · health
The 2026 Breakthrough Prizes — worth $3 million each — have been awarded to scientists whose gene therapy breakthroughs are curing inherited blin…
May 5, 2026 · science · gene therapy
Seeds from the Moringa tree can remove over 98 percent of harmful microplastics from drinking water, performing as well as or better than chemica…
May 5, 2026 · science · environmentIn a once-in-a-generation lucky accident, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope happened to be pointed at Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) just as it began disint…
March 22, 2026 · Hubble · cometResearchers from the University of the Witwatersrand and Huzhou University have discovered 48-dimensional topological structures hidden within en…
March 22, 2026 · quantum physics · quantum computingPalaeontologists from UT Austin and the Korean Dinosaur Research Center have named a new dinosaur species Doolysaurus huhmini after Dooly the Lit…
March 21, 2026 · dinosaur · palaeontologyResearchers from Uppsala University and international collaborators have identified the Tokara Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tokaraensis) as a speci…
March 21, 2026 · bird · new speciesFEEL BETTER DAILY
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