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  NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Nears Completion with New Assembly

  NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken a major step forward with the delivery of its Optical Telescope Assembly to Goddard Space Flight Center. Designed to enhance infrared observations of the cosmos, the assembly includes a primary mirror and supporting optics capable of capturing faint celestial phenomena. This milestone ensures the t...

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  NASA Unveils Prototype Telescope for LISA Mission, Gravitational Wave Detection from Space

  NASA has introduced the prototype telescope for its LISA mission, set to detect gravitational waves from space. This mission, a collaboration with the European Space Agency, involves spacecraft using lasers to measure precise distances, enabling the detection of cosmic events like black hole mergers. The prototype telescope, which arrived at NASA...

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  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spots Rocket Impact Site on Moon, Says Research

  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered an impact occurred on the moon on March 4, which resulted in creating a crater. The double crater was unexpected and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end.

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  NASA Helped by 17-Year-Old Intern to Find Planet in Habitable Zone

  Just three days into his internship, little did 17-year-old Wolf Cukier realise that he is going to make history.

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  NASA Names New Gamma-Ray Constellations After Hulk, Godzilla

  NASA has used certain characters from modern myths such as the "Hulk" and "Godzilla" to name its new set of 21 gamma-ray constellations constructed in celebration of its Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's 10th year of operations.

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  From A Kerala Village To NASA: How Ashna Sudhakar Realised Her Dream

  Now at NASA, Ashna Sudhakar is working on solar radio burst, does data analysis and drafts the results of the research which are submitted as the proposed work.

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  Arctic Winter Warming Events Becoming More Frequent: Study

  Arctic winter warming events are becoming far more frequent and long-lasting than they were three decades ago, due to human-driven climate change, a NASA study warns.

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  Closing In On Launch: NASA's Gold-Mirrored, $8 Billion Webb Space Telescope

  The world's most expensive telescope is parked for the moment in Greenbelt, Maryland, shrouded in a protective tent at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In just two years, this long-delayed, $8 billion, cosmos-penetrating instrument is supposed to be nearly a million miles from Earth.

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  There's a New Earth-Size Planet in the Neighborhood (Galactically Speaking)

  The yeoman work of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has revealed our Milky Way galaxy to be lousy with planets - surely tens of billions of them, if you extrapolate from what Kepler has detected so far in a small patch of the sky.

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  Comet Lovejoy Spews Sugar and Booze, Study Finds

  For the first time ever, scientists have detected ethyl alcohol - the kind that makes booze - in emissions from a comet. Comet Lovejoy, it turns out, is quite aptly named: The ball of ice and dust, which releases the equivalent of about 500 bottles of wine each second during its peak activity, also emits a type of sugar.

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  Jupiter Can Help Decode Earth's Weather System Better

  Learning more about Jupiter and its Great Red Spot could help scientists understand the Earth's weather system better, says a NASA expert.

• NASA spacecraft finds plastic ingredient on Saturn's moon Titan

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found propylene, a chemical used to make household plastic containers, on Saturn's moon Titan, the space agency said.

• A claim that dinosaur footprint found at NASA center

  An amateur dinosaur hunter claimed to have discovered a rare cretaceous footprint from a nodosaur at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, most likely left more than 110 million years ago.