Searching With Sasquatch: Recovering NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
For Artemis missions, NASA’s Orion spacecraft will be traveling at 25,000 mph (40,000 kph) as it reenters the Earth’s atmosphere, which will slow it down…
For Artemis missions, NASA’s Orion spacecraft will be traveling at 25,000 mph (40,000 kph) as it reenters the Earth’s atmosphere, which will slow it down…
Once you leave the majestic skies of Earth, the word “cloud” no longer means a white fluffy-looking structure that produces rain. Instead, clouds in the…
By studying the chemical elements on Mars today — including carbon and oxygen — scientists can work backward to piece together the history of a…
To better understand and mitigate the health risks faced by astronauts from exposure to space radiation, we ideally need to be able to test the…
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, was not designed to find comets — its original goal…
NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface…
As coronavirus hit, JPL engineers teamed up to make a ventilator prototype that could be mass produced to fill a massive need. It’s not rocket…
In late May and early June, Earthlings may be able to glimpse Comet SWAN. The comet is currently faintly visible to the unaided eye in…
NASA’s Juno mission captured this look at Jupiter’s tumultuous northern regions during the spacecraft’s close approach to the planet on February 17, 2020. Notable features…
Via the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024, heralding in a new era for…
These are the people who built NASA’s next Mars rover and who will guide it to a safe landing in Jezero Crater. Behind every spacecraft…
Using a combination of satellite sensors, scientists recently found that Denman Glacier has been retreating both above and below the water line. That one glacier…
Team members searched for signs of ancient microscopic life there, just as NASA’s newest rover will on the Red Planet next year. Billions of years…
Approximately 85 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra, is the beautiful galaxy NGC 5861, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope….
When the New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto in 2015, one of the many fascinating features its images revealed was that this small, frigid world…
Astronomers have detected elusive pulsation patterns in dozens of young, rapidly rotating stars thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The discovery…
The Cold Atom Lab is using microgravity to learn about atoms and the quantum world, which could pave the way for new technologies in space…
“As you take this constant drumbeat of new information and research in, remember that this virus is new to science and people have only just…