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    How NASA’s Webb Telescope Supports Our Search for Life Beyond Earth

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    This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the habitable zone and lies 120 light-years from Earth. Illustration: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University) NASA’s James …

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    NASA’s Lucy Days Away from Asteroid Encounter

    NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will soon reach the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. In this image, created by stacking images that the Lucy spacecraft took during its approach, the asteroid appears as a series of points in front of the static background of stars and galaxies. In addition to the asteroid brightening as the spacecraft approaches […]

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    NASA Sets Coverage for SpaceX 32nd Station Resupply Launch, Arrival

    Editor’s note: This advisory was updated April 16, 2025, to reflect an updated cargo weight for NASA’s SpaceX 32nd commercial resupply mission. NASA and SpaceX are targeting 4:15 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 21, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 32nd SpaceX commercial resupply services […]

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    NASA’s PUNCH Mission Captures First Images of Sun, Space

    Many dim specks of light are visible across a black background. These are stars. In the middle, the Sun is indicated with a yellow cartoon star. A thin green line crosses from the bottom left of the image, up to the center right. Another crosses from the bottom left, up to the top center. It is labeled Pisces. The image is labeled PUNCH/NFI, First Light, 2025-April-14.

    NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission successfully completed spacecraft commissioning this week, opening its instrument doors to capture “first light,” the mission’s first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the surrounding space. This is the first step in revealing new details of how the solar atmosphere unfolds and streams through …

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    NASA: Tune in for the Lyrids Meteor Shower, Peaking April 21-22

    By Wayne Smith The Lyra constellation in the Northern sky is known as a memorial to music thanks to being named after the lyre, a musical instrument similar to a harp. The small constellation is also the namesake from where the annual Lyrids meteor shower radiates. The Lyrids are expected to peak on the night […]

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