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The critical robot arm on the ISS isn't working properly, but NASA has a plan to fix it

June 15, 2026
One of the space station’s robot arms, crucial for catching cargo ships and doing a share of maintenance duties, is offline for at least a few weeks for repairs. Canadarm2, which just passed 25 years of service in April on the International Space Station (ISS), will require a spacewalk to fix an apparently broken part that seized up during routine work on May 27, NASA said in a blog post…
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NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS reveals its most complete look at the night sky yet

May 22, 2026
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has released its most complete view of the sky over Earth — the map reveals the location of 6,000 potential worlds beyond the solar system. The mix of possible and confirmed extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, were identified by the mission prior to Sept. 2025. That’s the month that marked the conclusion of…
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NASA Missions That Changed Our Understanding of Space

August 20, 2025
Photographers often wish for more time to shoot the sunset – but the astronauts aboard the International Space Station get to witness 16 sunsets and sunrises a day. The problem? Golden hour is more like “the golden five seconds,” says astronaut, chemist, and renowned…
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5 Things to Know About NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications

October 11, 2023
NASA’s pioneering Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment will be the first demonstration of laser, or optical, communications from as far away as Mars. Launching with NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name on Thursday, Oct. 12, DSOC will test key technologies designed to enable future missions to transmit denser science data and even stream video from the…
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NASA Turns Space Photos Into Music

October 7, 2020
NASA has a new project that turns space photos into sounds. Using sonification, images obtained from telescopes are turned into “music” that sounds like what you’d hear when your operating system boots up. The creative project is being carried out by scientists at…