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NASA released the results of its second agencywide economic impact report on Thursday, demonstrating how its Moon to Mars activities, climate change research and technology, as well as other work generated more than $71.2 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2021.

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Our summer sky is bespangled with hundreds of sparkling open star clusters. One of the finest is M7 in Scorpius. It lies just 5° east-northeast of the Scorpion’s stinger stars: Shaula (Lambda [λ] Scorpii) and Lesath (Upsilon [υ] Scorpii). Under dark skies, M7 can be seen by the naked eye […]

Media accreditation is open for SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket is targeted no earlier than Friday, Nov. 18, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The detection of a toxin that makes humans and pigs vomit could solve the lingering 100-year-old mystery surrounding the pristine Martian meteorite nicknamed “Lafayette.”

SpaceX is preparing to roll its fourth Falcon Heavy rocket to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center as soon as Tuesday in preparation for a test-firing of its 27 main engines this week. The static fire test a precursor to the scheduled launch of the Falcon Heavy on a […]

Editor’s note: An additional clarification has been edited in from the author in response to a follow-up question post-publication. How far from Earth would a telescope have to be to capture a direct view of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, unimpeded by dust clouds? Dan […]

Pilots from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland, and students across southern Maryland will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

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Messier 52 (NGC 7654) and NGC 7789 are two of a trio of great open clusters found in Cassiopeia