NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft About To Sling-Shot Past Earth
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…
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NASA’s Planet Hunter TESS Goes Into Safe Mode – What We Know at This Time
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….
Hubble Captures a Spectacular Spiral Dotted With Bright Young Stars
In this stunning newly released image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its gorgeous spiral arms. Glittering, blue regions of brilliant…
Hear the Mesmerizing Sounds of the Universe Through the Webb Space Telescope
New Tracks Combine Science and Art, Improving Experiences for Blind and Low-Vision Communities A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new…
Moon Discovered Around Asteroid Polymele by NASA’s Lucy Team
Even before its launch in October 2021, NASA’s Lucy mission was already on course to break records by visiting more asteroids than any previous mission….
NASA Transfers Landsat 9 Satellite to USGS – Provides Global Coverage of Landscape Changes on Earth
On August 11, NASA transferred ownership and operational control of the Landsat 9 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux…
Landsat Legacy: Ambitious NASA-USGS Program Observing Earth From Space Turns 50
On a warm July day in 1972, NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite, a new Earth-imaging satellite. “ERTS” was the first satellite of what…
NASA’s Lunar IceCube – Moon-Observing CubeSat Ready for Artemis Launch
Lunar IceCube, NASA’s water-scouting CubeSat, is now poised to hitch a ride to lunar orbit. Although it is not much bigger than a shoe box,…
NASA Troubleshoots Asteroid-Bound Lucy Spacecraft From Millions of Miles Away
Just after the successful launch of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft on October 16, 2021, a group of engineers huddled around a long conference table in Titusville,…
NASA Spacecraft Finds Pits on the Moon That Always Hover Around a Comfortable Temperature
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…
NASA Finds Some Asteroids Aged Early by Sun – “We Were Surprised”
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…
Biden Releases Webb’s First Image: Deepest Infrared View of Universe Yet – Compare to Hubble
On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a preview event at the White House…
At Last! NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Is Now Fully Ready for Science
It has been a long journey for the James Webb Space Telescope, filled with setbacks and obstacles to overcome. Some consider its start date all…
Key Milestone for NASA’s EZIE Mission To Study Electrical Currents in Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) project – a mission to explore electrical currents in Earth’s upper atmosphere – has passed a crucial developmental milestone,…
NASA Releases List of Stunning Cosmic Targets for Webb Telescope’s First Images
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will soon reveal unprecedented and detailed views of the universe, with the upcoming release of its first full-color images and…
Surprise – Again! NASA Spacecraft Reveals Asteroid Bennu Is Not What It Seemed
Scientists have learned something astonishing after analyzing data gathered when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020. The spacecraft would…
Webb Space Telescope’s Glorious First Images: Fine Guidance Sensor Provides a Preview
We are just five days away from the July 12th release of the first full-color images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, but how does…
Another Primary Webb Space Telescope Instrument Gets the “Go for Science”
Recently, NIRISS, one of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s four primary scientific instruments concluded its postlaunch preparations and was declared ready for science. Now a…
