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High-altitude flight is getting increasing attention from sectors ranging from telecommunications to emergency response. To make that airspace more accessible, NASA is developing an air traffic ...

Computer simulations suggest NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory could detect Earth-like exomoons around gas giant exoplanets through reflected starlight and lunar eclipses.

Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A test pilot and instructor from Edwards Air Force Base has been selected as one of four volunteers to take part in a yearlong ...

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live on Mars? NASA is looking for volunteers for a yearlong mission that will simulate what living on the red planet might be like. On Feb. 16, NASA put ...

The sandbox portion of the Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA has selected four crewmembers ...

METECS will provide simulation and software services for space-based vehicle models. Credit: Michael Barad/Timothy Sandstrom/NASA/Ames HOUSTON—NASA has selected Houston-based MacLean Engineering & ...

NASA plans a second wet dress rehearsal for Artemis II on Feb. 19 after replacing a hydrogen system filter, with teams running countdown procedures ahead of a possible March launch window ...

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Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.