NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Challenge: Two Paths to First Flight on Mars
Yesterday, April 16, on the 154th anniversary of Wilbur Wright’s birth, the Ingenuity flight team received information that the helicopter was able to complete a…
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NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins & Cosmonaut Crewmates Return Safely to Earth
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, returned to Earth on Saturday, following six months living and working aboard…
NASA Selects SpaceX Starship to Land Next Americans on Moon
NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX…
Hypnotic New NASA Visualization Probes the Light-Bending Dance of Binary Black Holes
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic pas de deux in a new NASA visualization. The movie…
NASA SpaceX Crew-2 “Go” for April 22 Launch to the International Space Station
The Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station has concluded, and teams are proceeding toward a planned liftoff…
NASA’s Io Volcano Observer: Following the Heat and Hunting Clues to Planet Evolution
A proposed mission called Io Volcano Observer (IVO) would visit Jupiter’s moon Io, which is a true volcanic wonderland with hundreds of erupting volcanoes gushing…
NASA Astrobiology: Probing for Life in the Icy Crusts of Ocean Worlds
A technique for scanning Mars rocks for microscopic fossils of ancient life is also being developed to hunt for microbes in the deep ice of…
Satellite View: Fierce Fire Season Rages in Nepal
After an unusually dry winter, forest fires have raged throughout the mountainous country. Seasonal fires, lit to manage farmland and pastures, are common in Nepal…
NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Expedition 64 Space Station Crew Landing
Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are scheduled to end their mission on the International Space Station Friday, April…
NASA Satellites Detect Signs of Unrest Years Before Volcanic Eruptions
New research methods may lead to earlier predictions of volcanic eruptions. Although there are telltale signs that a volcano is likely to erupt in the…
Nearest Exoplanet to Our Solar System: Jupiter-Mass Planet Orbiting Epsilon Eridani
This artist’s concept is of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the nearby star Epsilon Eridani. Located 10.5 light-years away, it was the closest known exoplanet to…
NASA’s Swift Helps Tie “Ghost Particle” to Star-Shredding Black Hole
For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to an object outside our galaxy. Using ground- and space-based…
40th Anniversary of First Space Shuttle Mission – “Something Just Short of a Miracle”
The Space Shuttle Columbia began a new era of human spaceflight when STS-1 lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 12,…
What a Glacial River Reveals About the Greenland Ice Sheet and Global Sea Level Rise
With data from a 2016 expedition, scientists supported by NASA are shedding more light into the complex processes under the Greenland Ice Sheet that control…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Needs a Flight Control Software Update Before First Flight on Mars
The Ingenuity team has identified a software solution for the command sequence issue identified on Sol 49 (April 9) during a planned high-speed spin-up test…
Cyclone Seroja Slams Australia, Causing Significant Damage to Coastal Towns
The category three cyclone made a rare landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns. On April 11, 2021, a category three storm…
NASA Releases Stunning Image of Mars: Blue Dunes on the Red Planet
A sea of dark dunes, sculpted by the wind into long lines, surrounds Mars’ northern polar cap and covers an area as big as Texas….
Astronomers Sketch U Monocerotis – A Rare Type of Stellar Binary – Using Over a Century of Observations
Astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri variable, a rare type of stellar binary where two stars – one approaching the…