NASA’s Mars Perseverance Technology Pays Off Back Home
Even as the Perseverance rover approaches Mars, technology on board is paying off on Earth. A laser-light sensor that can identify bacteria in a wound…
Even as the Perseverance rover approaches Mars, technology on board is paying off on Earth. A laser-light sensor that can identify bacteria in a wound…
What are some skywatching highlights in February 2021? Find Mars all month after sunset, especially on the night of NASA’s planned rover landing, February 18….
NASA’s newest rover has an autopilot called Terrain-Relative Navigation. The view of the Sea of Tranquility rising up to meet Neil Armstrong during the first…
Now just a year and a half from launch, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid will soon begin assembling and testing the spacecraft. NASA’s…
Apollo 14 was the eighth crewed Apollo mission and the third to land on the Moon. On January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 launched from Kennedy…
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover concluded their spacewalk at 1:16 p.m. EST, after 5 hours and 20 minutes. In the second spacewalk of the year,…
The Martian moon Phobos orbits through a stream of charged atoms and molecules that flow off the Red Planet’s atmosphere, new research shows. Many of…
A bird-loving farmer living near Florida’s Pelican Island helped spur the creation of a national system of wildlife refuges. Elaborate feathered hats—sometimes festooned with whole…
A bright foreground star isn’t enough to distract from the grandeur of the galaxy UGC 3885, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. While…
When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will explore an expansive range of infrared astrophysics topics. One eagerly anticipated survey…
American astronauts in 2024 will take their first steps near the Moon’s South Pole: the land of extreme light, extreme darkness, and frozen water that…
One of the first things people want to know before taking a trip is what the weather will be like wherever they are headed. For…
In places where concentrations of the precious metal have been discovered, mining operations are large enough to be seen from space. Gold has been found…
NASA conducted the first hot fire on January 28, 2021, in a new series of tests for production of RS-25 engines that will help power the…
Looking Around the Neighborhood Though they focus on the star at the center of our solar system, some Sun-watching spacecraft recently captured unique views of…
Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet is in the not-so-distant future for the agency’s Mars 2020 mission. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover…
The year 1986 was shaping up to be the most ambitious one yet for NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. The agency’s plans called for up to…
On May 10, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will say farewell to asteroid Bennu and begin its journey back…