Don’t Miss: Best Meteor Shower of the Year Peaks This Weekend
Recognized as one of the best meteor showers, the Perseids are especially notable this year due to a waning crescent moon, enhancing visibility. The NASA…
Recognized as one of the best meteor showers, the Perseids are especially notable this year due to a waning crescent moon, enhancing visibility. The NASA…
NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently achieved key milestones in its preparation for a 2028 launch. The vehicle, part of the Mars Sample Return program,…
The universe is teeming with powerful supermassive black holes that spawn powerful jets of high-energy particles, creating sources of extreme brightness in the vastness of…
After over 38 years of service, Jody Singer, the first female director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has announced her retirement. Her tenure saw…
As NASA prepares for the first crewed Artemis missions to the Moon, agency propulsion and test teams are setting their sights on future Space Launch…
Cosmic fireworks, invisible to our eyes, fill the night sky. We can get a glimpse of this elusive light show thanks to the Large Area…
NASA and its partners across the country are continuing to make progress on the crewed Artemis missions with hardware for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS)…
NASA continues to evaluate data and learn more about the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s debut performance during the agency’s November 16, 2022, Artemis I…
According to initial assessments by NASA, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket performed with precision, meeting or exceeding all expectations during its debut launch on…
On Earth, many cars on the road are powered by engines that convert fuel into energy to produce motion. Although rocket science is a little…
Blazars are some of the brightest objects in the cosmos. They are composed of a supermassive black hole feeding off material swirling around it in…
For the first time, astronomers have measured and mapped polarized X-rays from a supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A (Cas A), using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer…
On Saturday morning, a brilliant meteor flew through the skies over northern Utah, later raining down meteorites over the Great Salt Lake. Residents of the…
The Space Launch System (SLS) is NASA’s super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle that has been in development since 2011. It will be capable of launching…
Consider a mountaineering expedition in a completely uncharted environment, where the hikers had the ability to generate a real-time 3D map of the terrain. NASA…
Under Artemis, NASA plans to return to the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. This will require…
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, which launched December 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging data since completing its month-long commissioning phase. All instruments are…
NEA Scout will visit an asteroid estimated to be smaller than a school bus – the smallest asteroid ever to be studied by a spacecraft….