Solar Activity Heating Up As New Sunspots Sport the Biggest Solar Flare in Years
On May 29, 2020, a family of sunspots — dark spots that freckle the face of the Sun, representing areas of complex magnetic fields —…
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New ‘Planetary Quarantine’ Report Reviews Risks of Alien Contamination
Stanford’s Scott Hubbard, the former director of NASA Ames, discusses how the advent of new activities and players in the exploration and use of space…
One Large Stellar Latte to Go – Hubble Captures Galaxy First Spotted by William Herschel in 1790
Far away in the Ursa Major constellation is a swirling galaxy that would not look out of place on a coffee made by a starry-eyed…
Meet SHERLOC – The Detective Aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover
An instrument called SHERLOC will, with the help of its partner WATSON, hunt for signs of ancient life by detecting organic molecules and minerals. Mars…
SpaceX Reaches for Milestone in Spaceflight – A Private Company Launches Astronauts Into Orbit at Low Cost
Today (May 27, 2020), two American astronauts, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, are planning to launch from the Kennedy Space Center on a…
NASA Astronaut Robert Behnken Ready for Today’s Historic SpaceX Crew Dragon Liftoff
The Demo-2 flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon with Behnken and Douglas Hurley marks the first launch of American astronauts on an American-made rocket from American…
Landmark NASA SpaceX Commercial Crew Test Flight Coverage Schedule
Grammy Award Winner Kelly Clarkson to Perform National Anthem NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 test…
NASA’s Mars Orbiter Maps Electric Currents Around the Red Planet – Fundamental to Atmospheric Loss
Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric…
NASA Astronauts Rehearse for SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Day
Yesterday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley participated in a countdown dress rehearsal of the launch day…
NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Cleared to Proceed Toward May 27 Launch
The Flight Readiness Review has concluded, and NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is cleared to proceed toward liftoff on the first crewed flight of the agency’s…
Trials by Fire, Ice, Light and Sound: NASA’s New Mars Rover Perseveres
The agency’s new Mars rover is put through a series of tests in vacuum chambers, acoustic chambers and more to get ready for the Red…
Muddy Flooding After Catastrophic Dam Failures in Michigan Seen From Space
On May 17, 2020, heavy rain began pouring over the Tri-Cities region of central Michigan and, after two days, it provoked significant flooding in Midland…
NASA and SpaceX are ‘GO’ to Proceed for Launch of First Astronauts to Space Station from U.S. Since 2011
A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International…
A Sparkling Stretched Spiral and Stunning Out-of-This-World Galaxies Imaged by Hubble
This sparkling spiral galaxy looks almost stretched across the sky in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Known as NGC 4100, the…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Will Investigate the Dawn of Our Solar System
Researchers will observe far-flung asteroids, some with moons, to learn more about the makeup and history of our solar system Millions of asteroids roam our…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Fully Stowed in Launch Configuration
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will have when loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket…
Next-Generation NASA Space Telescope Named for ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman
At the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, team members are building the Coronagraph Instrument for the spacecraft and contributing to the mission’s science goals. NASA is…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Officially Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission is officially prepared for its long-awaited touchdown on asteroid Bennu’s surface. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security…