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Penn State’s strength in space science comes from the depth of our long-standing scientific leadership and the breadth of ...

An illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The NASA observatory was designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared ast ...

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NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth’s atmosphere ...

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Congress established committees on space exploration in 1958, in response to the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik in October 1957. Both Senate and House committees held hearings on the creation of ...