Pandora Mission To Study Stars and Exoplanets Passes Crucial Step
The Pandora mission, co-led by a national laboratory and a NASA flight center, has passed a crucial step on its path to study stars and…
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Hubble Lends a Helping Hand to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Far above rain clouds, light pollution, and atmospheric distortion, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has a clear view of the universe. It has shown us distant…
Watching the Blink of a Star to Size Up “Trojan” Asteroids for NASA’s Lucy Mission
Gathering near Las Vegas recently, dozens of astronomers spread throughout the region, pointed their telescopes at the sky, and waited for the moment on October…
Must-See Video Series: The Webb Telescope Journey to Space
This is the beginning of the James Webb Space Telescope’s journey to space! It started with engineers packing the telescope into the protective transport container….
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Ready for Sunshield Deployment and Cooldown
With Webb’s first major structural deployments completed and the observatory’s Deployable Tower Assembly extended, we are taking a step back to learn more about Webb’s…
NASA Scientist Provides Details on Webb’s Vital Mid-Course Corrections
On December 25, the Webb team successfully executed the first of three planned orbit corrections to get Webb into its halo orbit around the second…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Makes Time Critical Mid-Course Correction Burn
At 7:50 pm EST, Webb’s first mid-course correction burn began. It lasted 65 minutes and is now complete. This burn is one of two milestones that are time critical — the first was the solar array…
Stunning Views of Comet Leonard Captured From Two Sun-Watching Spacecraft
When Comet Leonard, a mass of space dust, rock, and ice about a half-mile (1 kilometer) wide, makes its closest pass of the Sun on…
Parker Solar Probe: For the First Time in History, a Spacecraft Has Touched the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now done what no spacecraft has done before—it has officially touched the Sun. Launched in 2018 to study the Sun’s…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Touches the Sun for the First Time – Bringing New Discoveries
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere –…
Ensuring That NASA’s DART Kinetic Impactor Asteroid Deflector Hits Its Target
Although the chance of an asteroid impacting Earth is small, even a relatively small asteroid of about 500 feet (about 150 meters) across carries enough…
How TIMED Flies: NASA Upper Atmosphere Mission Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Launched in 2001, NASA’s TIMED mission has now spent 20 years surveying the complicated dynamics of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Short for Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics…
Ozone 101: What Is the Ozone Hole? [Video]
Ozone 101 is the first in a series of explainer videos outlining the fundamentals of popular Earth science topics. Let’s back up to the basics…
NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration – Bringing Optical Speeds to the Final Frontier
Our televisions and computer screens display news, movies, and shows in high-definition, allowing viewers a clear and vibrant experience. Fiber optic connections send laser light…
NASA’s Laser Communication Relay Demonstration: Getting Space Data to the Ground With Lasers
NASA launches satellites, rovers, and orbiters to investigate humanity’s place in the Milky Way. When these missions reach their destinations, their science instruments capture images,…
Hubble Space Telescope’s View of Planetary Nebula Reveals Complex Structure
NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula in the constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin. This Hubble image reveals a wealth of structure, including a spherical…
Strange Things Happening in Earth’s Atmosphere: NASA Launches Rocket To Investigate Mysterious Area Above the North Pole
Strange things happen in Earth’s atmosphere at high latitudes. Around local noon, when the Sun is at its highest point, a funnel-shaped gap in our…
UVSC Pathfinding Experiment To Study Origins of Solar Energetic Particles – Sun’s Most Dangerous Form of Radiation
A joint NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory experiment dedicated to studying the origins of solar energetic particles — the Sun’s most dangerous form of radiation —…