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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Research and development center and NASA field center in California, United States

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Nov 26, 2025
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Did a gravity anomaly just appear beneath Africa?

Satellites in the GRACE mission recorded a large, transient gravity anomaly off the west coast of Africa that appeared in data covering about 2006–2008 and stretched thousands of kilometers; researche...

Dec 5, 2025
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Candace Owens origins of NASA

Candace Owens promoted a claim that NASA has "satanic" or occult origins, tying the agency’s early rocket work to occultist Aleister Crowley and to Jack Parsons, a founder of what became the Jet Propu...

Dec 19, 2025

Is sealevel risisng

Sea level is unequivocally rising, and a growing body of satellite, tide‑gauge and paleo records shows both a long‑term increase since the 19th century and a measurable acceleration in recent decades:...

Nov 26, 2025

What are the technical differences between the R2 Swan and 3I/ATLAS aircraft models?

C/2025 R2 (SWAN) is a Solar System long‑period comet discovered in SWAN/SOHO imagery on 11 September 2025 and reached a reported peak brightness near magnitude ~5.9 during an outburst; it made closest...

Nov 21, 2025

Is the A1 Atlas referenced in any scientific catalogs or astronomical databases?

Available catalogs and databases do list objects named "ATLAS" — primarily comets and survey discoveries credited to the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) — and specific ATLAS-desi...

Nov 15, 2025

3i atlas location

3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) is an interstellar comet first reported on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile; it is the third confirmed interstellar object and posed no threat to Ea...