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NASA Satellites Capture ‘River Tsunamis’ Surging Hundreds of Miles Inland
That’s according to researchers from Virginia Tech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who measured three large flood ...
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How Thermal Expansion and Record Heat Are Driving Accelerated Sea Level Rise in 2024
The rise we saw in 2024 was higher than we expected,” says Josh Willis, a scientist for sea level at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
NASA Tracking House-Sized Asteroids Approaching Earth Imminently
One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
Voyager 1’s Long-Dead Thrusters Fire Again After 20 Years – Just in Time
Voyager 1 and 2 are NASA’s iconic deep space explorers, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...
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JPL Unveiled; Inside the World's Most Incredible Space Missions
Unlock the captivating history of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from its 1930s inception to future missions. Explore groundbreaking space endeavors, innovation, and upcoming projects shaping ...
NASA 'cleanrooms' found crawling with 26 new bacterial species
A new study reports that 26 new bacterial species were found growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.
Gravity study shows why the moon's two sides look so different
An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two NASA robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why ...
NASA Just Found the Moon Is Uneven—What We Know So Far
The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.