NASA has announced new mission plans based on input from the Astro2020 astrophysics decadal survey, which was published in November, Space News reported Wednesday. The space agency said Tuesday at an online
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Paul Hertz, director of NASA's astrophysics division, intends to pursue another position within the space agency after he departs his current role at the end of 2021. The two-decade NASA veteran told
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Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s astrophysics division, said the space agency plans to make some changes to the operations of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy aircraft to ramp up its scientific
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NASA and its Japanese counterpart JAXA will collaborate on the development of an orbiting X-ray astronomy telescope in an effort to replace an astronomy spacecraft that malfunctioned in orbit last year, Space News reported
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Japan’s space agency has asked NASA to build a copy of an X-ray instrument onboard a Japanese Hitomi astronomy satellite that lost contact on March 26 with spacecraft controllers a month after
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NASA has teamed up with the National Science Foundation in an effort to develop an instrument that can detect exoplanets by measuring the “wobbling” of stars caused by the gravitational pull of
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NASA has unveiled four astrophysics research proposals for the agency’s Pioneers program that will receive funding to support agency efforts to explore topic areas such as exoplanets, galaxy evolution, neutron star merging
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Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the NASA‘s Science Mission Directorate, has urged the Goddard Space Flight Center to study potential design changes on the agency’s future space observatory to address the results of an independent
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NASA has validated 1,284 new planets from Kepler space telescope’s July 2015 catalog to post a new record as the single largest batch of confirmed planets to date. The space agency said Wednesday the new
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NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center has issued a request for information to seek potential partners for conducting research and development activities by using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy aircraft. According to the RFI posted
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