Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night With NASA
The public is invited to participate in several of NASA’s virtual activities in celebration of International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, October 16. This…
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NASA’s Lucy Trojan Asteroid Mission Invites You to Build Your Own Time Capsule
Where will you be and what will you be up to in August of 2027? What about March of 2033? NASA knows exactly where the…
How To Ship the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Space Telescope 5,800 Miles Across the Ocean
When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches, it will undergo one of the most harrowing deployment processes any spacecraft has ever endured. But before it…
NASA Searching for Free-Floating Planets Using Artificial Intelligence and Gravitational Microlensing
Exoplanet hunters have found thousands of planets, most orbiting close to their host stars, but relatively few alien worlds have been detected that float freely…
We Asked a NASA Scientist: Is Mars Habitable? [Video]
Is Mars habitable? Could ancient life once have existed on the Red Planet? Is there potential for life today deep beneath the Martian crust? Ell…
Surprising Standing Waves at Edge of Earth’s Magnetic Bubble Found in NASA Data
Earth sails the solar system in a ship of its own making: the magnetosphere, the magnetic field that envelops and protects our planet. The celestial…
NASA’s Lucy Mission To Explore the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids – “It’s Almost Like We’re Traveling Back in Time”
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will launch in October 2021 on a 12-year journey to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission will include three Earth gravity assists…
NASA Confirms Roman Space Telescope Mission’s Flight Design in Milestone Review
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its critical design review, signaling that all design and developmental engineering work is now complete. “After…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Explore Forming Planetary Systems
Researchers will observe more than a dozen protoplanetary systems to gather data about their inner disks – where Earth-like planets may be forming What was…
NASA’s Lucy Mission Prepares for Launch To Study “Fossils” of Planet Formation
NASA has tested the functions of Lucy, the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, filled it with fuel, and is preparing to pack…
“No One Has Ever Seen This Before” – Hubble Shows Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Are Accelerating
The Winds at the Outer Edge Are ‘Winning the Race’ in This Enormous Storm System Listen up, race fans! The innermost lane no longer has…
NASA Launches New Mission in “Major Milestone” To Monitor Earth’s Landscapes From Space
Landsat 9, a NASA satellite built to monitor the Earth’s land surface, successfully launched at 2:12 p.m. EDT Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in…
NASA Confirms Thousands of Massive, Violent Volcanic “Super Eruptions” on Mars
Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of “super eruptions,” the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500-million-year…
NASA Engineers Work To Give Satellite Swarms a Hive Mind
Swarms of small satellites could communicate amongst themselves to collect data on important weather patterns at different times of the day or year, and from…
Dramatic NASA Satellite Video Examines Hurricane Ida’s Eye in 3D
Hurricane Ida off the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 hurricane on the morning of Sunday, August 29th at 10:13am (CDT) right before making landfall….
NASA GOLD’s Bird’s-Eye Reveals Mysterious Dynamics in Earth’s Interface to Space
New research using data from NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission, has revealed unexpected behavior in the swaths of charged…
NASA’s $10 Billion James Webb Space Telescope Has Successfully Completed Testing
After successful completion of its final tests, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is being prepped for shipment to its launch site. Engineering teams have completed…
International Trio of Mars Orbiters Shows Small Dust Storms Help Dry Out the Red Planet
By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a huge role in drying out…