NASA, ISS and Return to Earth
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Four people from NASA's Crew-11 mission splashed down off San Diego successfully completing five months aboard the International Space Station. The trip was cut short due to a medical issue.
A viral rumour predicts Earth losing gravity in 2026, but scientists say only a routine eclipse awaits. How did the claim spread, and why are experts pushing back now?
A viral TikTok rumour claims Earth will lose gravity in 2026, but community notes and science show it is false.
A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.
NASA said that by migrating the archives to the cloud, it will place NASA Earth observation data “close to compute,” and enable more efficient access to data. According to the agency, the DAACs will "continue to serve as the gateways to EOSDIS data holdings and provide a wide range of support services for users."
Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes that 2025 PN7 has been in its current configuration "since at least the past 70 years and will remain so for another 60 years.
NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected anomaly.