NASA is working to resolve an issue with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope. | Continue reading
Many of NASA's computational innovations were developed to help explore space, but the public can download them for applications that benefit us right here on Earth. | Continue reading
Supermassive Black Holes May Generate ‘Tsunamis’ In Escaping Gas | Continue reading
Before identifying the sources of methane on Mars, scientists must settle a question that’s been gnawing at them: Why do some instruments detect the gas while others don’t? | Continue reading
When astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered an oddball galaxy that looked like it didn't have much dark matter, some thought the finding was hard to believe and looked for a simpler explanation. | Continue reading
Cleaner-burning jet fuels made from sustainable sources can produce 50%-70% fewer ice crystal contrails at cruising altitude, reducing aviation’s impact on the environment, according to research conducted by NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). | Continue reading
At night, seven-year-old Miguel likes talking to his father Cesar Rubio about planets and stars. “I try to nurture that,” says Rubio, a machinist in Pomona, California, who makes parts for mining and power generation equipment. | Continue reading
In a series of flights between June 1 and 6 Stratodynamics Inc. of Lewes, Delaware, launched its HiDRON stratospheric glider from a high-altitude balloon at Spaceport America in New Mexico carrying technology supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program for the first time. | Continue reading
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This image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon. | Continue reading
NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. | Continue reading
NASA’s need to contain hazardous lunar dust led to technology that senses other pollutants. | Continue reading
The Artemis Accords take an important first step to foster international cooperation for space exploration to the Moon and Mars. | Continue reading
NASA has assigned Kayla Barron to serve as a mission specialist for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which is targeted to launch as early as Oct. 23. | Continue reading
NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at how NASA's LunaNet communications architecture allows industry to participate in Artemis. | Continue reading
On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout caused by a solar storm. | Continue reading
NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson released the following statement Saturday regarding debris from the Chinese Long March 5B rocket. | Continue reading
A mission to explore energy transport in space using a NASA suborbital sounding rocket launching May 8, 2021, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia may provide a brief light show for residents of the eastern United States and Bermuda. | Continue reading
This detailed image features Abell 3827, a galaxy cluster that offers a wealth of exciting possibilities for study. | Continue reading
During a brief swing by Venus, Parker Solar Probe detected a natural radio signal that revealed the spacecraft had flown through the planet’s upper atmosphere. This was the first direct measurement of the Venusian atmosphere in nearly 30 years — and it looks quite different from … | Continue reading
E-Nose is a smartphone-based device derived from technology used to help monitor air quality inside spacecraft, but NASA is advancing it to detect COVID-19 by "sniffing" a person's breath. | Continue reading
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 to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface. | Continue reading
NASA is targeting no earlier than Monday, April 19, for the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at approximately 3:30 a.m. EDT (12:30 a.m. PDT). | Continue reading
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NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. | Continue reading
NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft will carry the 1.5-inch likeness of Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter and his wife Juno to Jupiter when the spacecraft launches this Friday, Aug. 5. | Continue reading
NASA and SpaceX have signed a joint agreement to formalize both parties’ strong interest in the sharing of information to maintain and improve space safety. | Continue reading
The largest rocket element NASA has ever built, the core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, fired its four RS-25 engines for 8 minutes and 19 seconds Thursday at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. | Continue reading
The new science results indicate that a large quantity of the Red Planet’s water is trapped in its crust rather than having escaped into space. | Continue reading
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Since they were discovered in the first data returned from NASA's Parker Solar Probe, switchbacks have sparked a flurry of studies and scientific debate as researchers have tried to explain how the magnetic pulses form. | Continue reading
SOFIA found that Comet Catalina is carbon-rich, suggesting comets could have been an essential source of carbon on planets like Earth and Mars during the early formation of the solar system. | Continue reading
NASA has named the landing site of the agency’s Perseverance rover “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” after the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. | Continue reading
NASA has awarded the Mars Ascent Propulsion System (MAPS) contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Elkton, Maryland, to provide propulsion support and products for spaceflight missions at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. | Continue reading
Communicating from Earth to any spacecraft is a complex challenge, largely due to the extreme distances involved | Continue reading
Testing teams successfully completed two important milestones that confirmed the observatory’s internal electronics are all functioning as intended, and that the spacecraft and its four scientific instruments can send and receive data properly through the same network they will u … | Continue reading
NASA is looking at two types of nuclear propulsion systems – nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion. | Continue reading
Lunar IceCube mission will locate and study lunar resources needed for establishing a sustainable human presence on the Moon. | Continue reading
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Engineer Bob Balaram discusses the first experimental aircraft flight on another planet. | Continue reading
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), the foundational elements of the Gateway. | Continue reading
An early challenge turned into a surprise success on the International Space Station that could be a boon for the future of space crop production. | Continue reading
In 1995, the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (NASA/SP-6105) was initially published to bring the fundamental concepts and techniques of systems engineering to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) personnel in a way that recognized the nature of NASA systems … | Continue reading
How dark does space get? If you get away from city lights and look up, the sky between the stars appears very dark indeed. | Continue reading
NASA loaned the Moon rock to the White House for display in the Oval Office. | Continue reading
What Can We Learn From the Experiences of NASA Astronauts? | Continue reading