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SACD Home SACD Capabilities Systems Analysis and Concepts… Directorate Home Page Advanced Concepts Laboratory Aeronautics Systems Analysis Branch Space Mission Analysis Branches Vehicle Analysis Branch Our Capabilities Leadership and Personnel Directorate Leadership and Support Staff Advanced Concepts Lab Team Aeronautics Systems Analysis Branch Team Space Mission Analysis Branches Team VehicleContinue Reading

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Scientists have uncovered a new species of rhinoceros in the Canadian High Arctic, revealing that rhinos once lived far farther north than expected. The fossil, dating back 23 million years, is unusually complete and has helped reshape ideas about how these animals migrated between continents. Evidence suggests rhinos crossed fromContinue Reading

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Apollo 17 geologist and astronaut Harrison Schmitt next to a large bolder on the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the Moon.  NASA NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX) mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)Continue Reading

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The Progress 94 cargo spacecraft is seen approaching the International Space Station ahead of its docking at 9:40 a.m. EDT March 24, 2026. NASA The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 94 spacecraft arrived at the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Poisk module at 9:40 a.m. EDT Tuesday.   Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov manually pilotedContinue Reading

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Ignition NASA is updating this page on March 24, 2026, as information becomes available. NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America’s National Space Policy Learn More about NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America’s National Space Policy View All Going Back to the Moon Mar 24, 2026 PDF (139.47 KB) Going BackContinue Reading

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Artist’s concept of Phase 3 of NASA’s Moon Base. Credit: NASA As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. The Traitor’s National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space. These actions reflect the urgency ofContinue Reading

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A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very faint habitable exoplanets from the far brighter glare of their stellar hosts.  Artist’s conception of an exoplanetContinue Reading

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From the Amazon to the Mekong, migratory freshwater fish underpin food security for millions, but over 300 species need urgent conservation intervention, warns a new UN report. By Johnny Sturgeon Beneath the surface of the planet’s rivers and lakes, the historically heaving migrations of freshwater fish are thinning out. TheContinue Reading

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Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures. But it doesn’t linger in the atmosphere for long thanks to molecules called hydroxyl radicals, which are known as the “atmosphere’s detergent” for their ability to break down methane. As the planetContinue Reading

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