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You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand why NASA implemented this policy: In July, dual Chinese/American citizen Chenguang Gong admitted to a lengthy industrial espionage campaign that saw him download information on sensors used by aircraft to confuse infrared-seeking missiles, plus data on radiation-hardened cameras that the US placed in orbit to give an early warning of incoming rockets and hypersonic vehicles. China has also recruited spies at the US Navy.

Your name could make it to the moon along with NASA's Artemis II mission next yearthe first time a crew will travel to Earth's natural satellite in more than 50 years. Anyone can submit their name in English here or Spanish here. The collected names will be included on an SD digital memory card that will be carried onboard the Orion capsule as it ferries four astronauts into orbit around the moon. The deadline to register is before January 21, 2026.

Back in 1957, something spectacular happened that would change the world forever: the first human-created satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into space. Orbiting our planet in low-Earth orbit, its unique signatures could be seen across the world. Unlike the stars, planets, or meteors that illuminated the night sky, this artificial satellite would glow with the reflected light of the Sun, streaking across the skies overhead whenever it passed within a couple of hundred kilometers of an observer's location.

NASA is assembling the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to support a lunar landing mission by 2027, starting operations at Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

The oldest and most distant black hole known to scientists dates back 13.3 billion years ago, when our universe was still in its teething stage.

"The Trump administration is creating and sharing memes to make fun of deportations, showcasing how humor is used in political discourse."

The project aims to capture and catalog the moon's reflected light with unparalleled precision for satellite calibration.

"This is the NASA 025 Command Vehicle. NASA 025 was designed to land crewed missions at Edwards Air Force Base."

A balanced portfolio prevents any one mission from going over budget, thus securing funds for other vital endeavors in NASA's science mission directorate.

"There were claims of a tail, but since 3I/ATLAS is accelerating and its current size is not much larger than the angular resolution of Earth-based telescopes, it is not easy to avoid fictitious elongation of the image as a result of the object's motion."

The Crew-11 mission, under the command of Zena Cardman, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, aiming for a stay of six to eight months on the ISS.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a proposed flagship NASA mission that aims to discover inhabited planets beyond our Solar System, similar to the contributions made by the Hubble or JWST.

The radar on Europa Clipper, named REASON, was tested as the spacecraft passed Mars, enabling engineers to calibrate the infrared camera and assess radar functionality.

NASA employees are preparing plans to terminate two critical satellite missions monitoring greenhouse gases, which provide valuable data to various sectors, including agriculture and science.

"Finding a temperate planet in such a compact system makes this discovery particularly exciting. It highlights the remarkable diversity of exoplanetary systems and strengthens the case for studying potentially habitable worlds around low-mass stars."

The twin spacecraft are part of the NASA-funded TRACERS mission, which will spend at least a year measuring plasma conditions in narrow regions of Earth's magnetic field known as polar cusps.

NASA was able to resolve a malfunction in the JunoCam on the Juno spacecraft by using remote hardware hacking techniques, including a process called annealing.