First Asteroid Encounter: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Ready to Meet Dinkinesh
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set to fly by the asteroid Dinkinesh on November 1, marking its first asteroid encounter. The flyby will test Lucy’s terminal…
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NASA Astronauts Are “Go” for Spacewalk Today
Final preparations are underway as the Expedition 70 crew gets ready for a maintenance spacewalk on Wednesday. Meanwhile, human research and a manufacturing study continued…
Astrophysical Enigma: Deciphering the Ring Nebula Through Webb’s Advanced Optics
The James Webb Space Telescope‘s new images of the Ring Nebula have revealed features suggesting the presence of a companion star and insights into stellar…
Trou Au Natron: The Ghostly Volcanic Face From Space
Past volcanic eruptions and salt deposits from present-day hot springs left this distinctive “face” in northern Chad. From above, the 1,000-meter (3,300-foot) deep volcanic pit…
Cosmic Chills: The Mysterious Ghost Hand Discovered by NASA’s X-Ray Telescopes
NASA’s Chandra and IXPE telescopes unveil the magnetic “bones” of the “hand”-shaped pulsar wind nebula, MSH 15-52, offering groundbreaking insights into X-ray polarization and magnetic…
Busy Bees in Zero-G: Spacesuits, Science, and Cargo Ops Kick Off Week on ISS
Monday, October 30, was filled with a flurry of activity for the seven Expedition 70 crew members. Their tasks ranged from spacesuit preparations to microgravity…
Red Alert: Earth’s Blood-Like Waters Revealed From Space
Despite their rusty color, these arteries of water in Bolivia and Madagascar are important for biodiversity. Some of Earth’s water bodies can assume a blood-like…
Cold Case Solved: NASA Maps Reveal Mars’ Hidden Ice Stashes
The map could help the agency decide where the first astronauts to the Red Planet should land. The more available water, the less missions will…
Rocketing to the Stars: NASA’s INFUSE Probes Sizzling Supernova Secrets
INFUSE, a new sounding rocket mission, is launching to study the Cygnus Loop supernova remnants. Utilizing a unique instrument that combines imaging and spectroscopy, it…
NASA’s SpaceX CRS-29: Lasers, Gravity Waves & Space Biology Unleashed
SpaceX’s upcoming CRS mission to the ISS will include experiments on laser communications, atmospheric waves, spaceflight impacts on health, water filtration, and respiratory drug delivery….
A Halloween Treat: NASA’s Juno Mission Glimpses an Eerie “Face” on Jupiter
During its 54th flyby, NASA’s Juno captured an image of Jupiter’s Jet N7 region, revealing turbulent clouds and the planet’s terminator. Processed by Vladimir Tarasov,…
Expedition 70’s Next Spacewalk: Sun Trackers & Communication Upgrades
The Expedition 70 crew is gearing up for another spacewalk planned at the beginning of November for maintenance on the outside of the International Space…
Cosmic Alchemy: Webb’s First Glimpse Into Heavy Element Creation
Webb’s study of the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen reveals tellurium. Under what conditions many chemical elements are created in the universe has long been…
Light-Speed Ahead: NASA’s Pioneering Leap Into Laser Data Transmission
NASA’s ILLUMA-T payload is set to launch to the ISS, aiming to demonstrate the potential of laser communications for faster data transmission. This collaboration with…
Microlensing Magic: How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Illuminate the Milky Way’s Mysteries
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set for a 2027 launch, aims to revolutionize our understanding of the Milky Way through microlensing, potentially discovering new…
El Niño’s Evolution: Cutting-Edge Observations From Sentinel-6
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich monitors Pacific Ocean sea surface heights to gauge El Niño impacts. While 2023’s event seems less intense than 1997 and 2015, it…
Mars’ Seismic Secrets: Decoding the Red Planet’s Core Mystery
Mars’s liquid iron core is smaller and denser than previously thought. Not only is it smaller, but it is also surrounded by a layer of…
Cosmic Collision: Life-Essential Elements Forged in Massive Space Explosion
Scientists observed rare chemical elements in the gamma-ray burst GRB 230307A, resulting from a neutron star merger. This discovery challenges current understandings of gamma-ray bursts…