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NASA asks industry to rescue Hubble before it falls from orbit

Hubble has one advantage over Swift. Astronauts fitted it with a soft-capture mechanism on the last shuttle visit in 2009, ...
Phys.org

NASA's Hubble seeks lensed supernova, marks 200,000 orbits

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19, marking another milestone for an observatory that continues to transform our understanding of the universe. Hubble ...
Science Daily

NASA's Hubble and Webb discover ancient worlds that remember their past

NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes have uncovered surprising clues about the solar system’s origins by studying 27 tiny, distant objects beyond Neptune. Scientists discovered that these ...
Phys.org

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter captures huge volcano, nears 100,000 orbits

NASA's longest-lived Mars robot is about to mark a new milestone on June 30: 100,000 trips around the Red Planet since launching 23 years ago. During that time, the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has been ...
NASA

Groundbreaking Science Emerges from Ultra-Close Orbits of Saturn

Cassini's Grand Finale orbits pay off: Final dives tell the story of the previously unexplored region between Saturn and its rings. New research emerging from the final orbits of NASA's Cassini ...
Military

NASA selects Impulse Space to study orbital transfer vehicle services for hard-to-reach orbits

What is NASA contracting Impulse Space to do? NASA selected Impulse Space to produce two studies on orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) services under its VADR contract. The studies will assess lower-cost ...
El Cronista

In 2019, a 17-year-old found a planet on his third day as a NASA intern: It is 6.9 times bigger than Earth and orbits two stars

The New York high school student spotted a world that orbits two stars, like Luke Skywalker’s home planet in “Star Wars.” ...