This Week @NASA: Mars Sample Return, Benefits of Space Station Research and Development
The benefits of space station research and development … Refining the architecture for the Mars Sample Return mission … And test firing a solid-rocket booster…
The benefits of space station research and development … Refining the architecture for the Mars Sample Return mission … And test firing a solid-rocket booster…
Teams are moving closer to finishing operations for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s…
Zeta Ophiuchi is a single star that likely once had a companion that was destroyed when it went supernova. The supernova explosion sent Zeta Ophiuchi,…
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) successfully completed its third trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) on Monday, July 25. CAPSTONE is…
New paleomagnetic research suggests Earth’s solid inner core formed 550 million years ago and restored our planet’s magnetic field. Swirling liquid iron in the Earth’s…
NASA Will Inspire World When It Returns Mars Samples to Earth in 2033 NASA has completed the system requirements review for its Mars Sample Return…
Tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, according to a new study…
Mars may be the Red Planet, but false-color images like this one can help us learn about its weather and geology. This High Resolution Imaging…
Scientists have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always hover around a comfortable 63 °F (about 17 °C). The NASA-funded researchers used…
Observations of faint, planet-size star help weigh its millisecond pulsar companion. A dense, collapsed star has shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its…
Over 5,000 exoplanets have been detected to date, with more than 90% of them found by using the transit or radial velocity techniques. Of the…
This spectacular luminescent image from the Hubble Space Telescope features multiple galaxies, perhaps most noticeably LEDA 58109, the lone galaxy in the upper right. LEDA…
A commercial cargo spacecraft safely arrives at the space station … Space station crewmembers conduct a spacewalk …. And an update on plans to launch…
ESA’s Mars Express’s latest image release takes us over two ruptures in the Martian crust that form part of the mighty Valles Marineris canyon system….
Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts has been given a contract by NASA to send Artemis scientific missions to the Moon in 2025. The commercial delivery is…
Technicians continue to prepare the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis I inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
Recently, scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission discovered that surface regeneration occurs on asteroids far more quickly than on Earth. By analyzing high-resolution images of rock…
Astronomers detect the most distant galaxy rotation ever, suggesting an initial stage of rotational motion development. Astronomers have been able to detect more and more…