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Earth Day in the Artemis era: Can NASA’s moon missions spur a new environmental movement?

Just 14 days ago, amid the mundanity of East Coast commutes and West Coast alarm clocks, NASA’s Artemis II mission gave humans across the nation and around the world a stunning new image of our planet...

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NASA Marks Earth Day by Dropping Unreleased Artemis II Photos

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NASA Shares Stunning Image Of Earth And Moon Captured From Mars Orbit

NASA targets a Sep. launch for its next big space telescope

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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will transform our view of the cosmos like never before. The science behind it is under threat

A stunning new telescope will help NASA scientists study and identify 100,000 exoplanets, hundreds of millions of galaxies, billions of stars and rare objects and phenomena that astronomers have never...

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NASA targets a September launch for its next big space telescope

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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will begin its revolutionary mission in September

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Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch

On Tuesday, NASA invited the press to look at the fully assembled Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is now ready to join the ranks of the great observatories in orbit, ahead of its September la...

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NASA unveils Roman Space Telescope at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks 36 years in orbit with stunning brand new image of ‘Cosmic Sea Slug’: PHOTOS

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Earth Day 2026: Posters and Virtual Backgrounds

On April 6, 2026, shortly before Earth slid behind the Moon from the perspective of Orion, and the spacecraft lost radio signal with mission control for 40 minutes, the Artemis II crew captured this stunning image of Earth setting over the lunar surface.

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NASA’s largest research aircraft can carry 75,000 pounds of science gear at 43,000 feet

Most Boeing 777s spend their lives shuttling passengers between global hubs. But one specific

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NASA seeks commercial and exploration links for new Earth science missions

Two new proposed NASA Earth science missions will attempt to address key research topics while leveraging both commercial and exploration capabilities. During NASA’s “Ignition” event March 24, the agency announced two new Earth science mission concepts,

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NASA Is Planning On Setting Fires On The Moon, Because Certain Materials May Be More Flammable There

N ASA is planning a pretty neat experiment for later this year, setting deliberate fires whilst on the surface of the Moon, the first time such experiments have been conducted on another celestial body.

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NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

Artemis II’s journey around the moon, scheduled to conclude on Friday, has delivered stunning new images of our home world taken from space. Those pictures remind us that Earth has changed immensely since the last time astronauts went near the moon in 1972.

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NASA Earth Science Researchers Join Science Center for Marine Fisheries; Will Integrate Satellite Data into Fisheries Research

OCEAN SPRINGS, MS / ACCESS Newswire / March 4, 2026 / The Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCEMFIS) is pleased to announce that researchers from NASA's Earth Science Division have joined SCEMFIS as the latest members of its Industry Advisory Board (IAB).

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NASA tracks asteroid set to make "very rare" closest approach to Earth

NASA says of Apophis passing by that it is likely "an event like this has not happened at any time in recorded human history."

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NASA shuts off Voyager 1 instrument to save power 15B miles from Earth

NASA shut down Voyager 1's charged particles instrument to save dwindling power, as the interstellar spacecraft loses about 4 watts of energy per year.