Space Sustainability: NASA Funds Projects to Study Orbital Debris
NASA is sponsoring research proposals from three university-based teams over the course of the next year to examine the economic, social, and regulatory concerns related…
NASA is sponsoring research proposals from three university-based teams over the course of the next year to examine the economic, social, and regulatory concerns related…
NASA’s first asteroid sample return spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, fired its thrusters for 30 seconds on September 21 and nudged its trajectory toward Earth. The resulting course…
A new Webb image shows at least 17 dust rings created by a rare type of star and its companion locked in a celestial dance….
What Is a Planetary Nebula? A planetary nebula is a region of cosmic gas and dust formed from the cast-off outer layers of a dying…
NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins, as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti splashed down safely in the SpaceX…
Astronomers discovered something unique using SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. They found a new type of stellar outburst that had never been seen…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, will skim the Earth’s atmosphere on October 16, at 7:04 a.m. EDT. It is…
Crew-4 was scheduled to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) at 7:05 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, October 12, to begin their journey back to…
Astronomers explain Mars’ watery reflections. Bright reflections under Mars’ South Pole’s surface, according to Cornell University astronomers, are more likely to be the result of…
NASA is now targeting Monday, November 14, for the next launch attempt of the Artemis I mission. The 69-minute launch window will open at 12:07…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) entered into safe mode on Monday, October 10. The spacecraft is in a stable configuration that suspends science observations….
Astronomers from Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Montpellier have devised an ‘early warning’ system to sound the alert when a massive star…
Crew-4 was scheduled to undock from the space station at 7:05 p.m. EDT today to begin their journey back to Earth. They would have splashed…
NASA’s Dart Impact Successfully Altered the Orbit of Asteroid Dimorphos Analysis of data obtained by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team over the…
Tuesday was a busy day aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as the 11 crew members split their time between advanced space research and maintenance…
NASA is getting ready for the Artemis era of research performed on the surface of the Moon. As part of the preparations, NASA is conducting…
New scientific research makes hypotheses that NASA’s Europa Clipper can test: Any plumes or volcanic activity at the Jovian moon’s surface are caused by shallow…
The dozens of newly identified gravitational lenses could also reveal ancient galaxies. Earlier this year, a machine learning algorithm detected up to 5,000 possible gravitational…