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Will Earth really lose gravity for 7 seconds on 8/12/26? NASA rumor exposed

Social feeds are filling with breathless claims that on 8/12/26, Earth will briefly “turn off” gravity for seven seconds, ...

Will Earth Lose Gravity for Seven Seconds? What is NASA's 'Operation Anchor That's Going Viral On TikTok

A viral TikTok rumour claims Earth will lose gravity in 2026, but community notes and science show it is false.

Does Earth have a temporary second moon? What astronomers actually discovered

Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes ...
Nature

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...
DatacenterDynamics

NASA migrates Earth Science data archives to the cloud

NASA said that by migrating the archives to the cloud, it will place NASA Earth observation data “close to compute,” and ...

A quarter-century in orbit: Science shaping life on Earth and beyond

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...
SpaceNews

Duffy comments seed doubts about future of NASA Earth science

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) 2 spacecraft is one of many science missions at NASA targeted for termination in the 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — Comments by NASA’s ...