Following a series of critical contract awards and hardware milestones, NASA has shared an update on its Artemis program, including the latest Phase 1 plan to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024. […]
This year’s Arctic sea ice cover shrank to the second-lowest extent since modern record-keeping began in the late 1970s. […]
An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean, and atmospheric scientists from three dozen international institutions has generated new estimates of how much of an impact Earth’s melting ice sheets could have on global sea levels by 2100.4. […]
STS-111 was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. […]
Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media event on Tuesday, experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discussed their analysis and predictions about the new solar cycle – and how the coming upswing in space weather will impact our lives and technology on Earth, as well as astronauts in space. […]
Astronomers have discovered that there may be a missing ingredient in our cosmic recipe of how dark matter behaves. […]
NASA’s Search and Rescue office has entered into a collaboration with the SmartSat Cooperative Research Center (CRC), a consortium of universities and other research organizations, partnered with industry and funded by the Australian government. […]
This fall, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is offering an astronomical deal, with limited time, buy-one-get-one-half-off admission package. […]
While scientists around the world are confined to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, Earth-observing satellites continue to orbit and send back images that reveal connections between the pandemic and the environment. […]
The International Space Station is a unique laboratory operating in low-Earth orbit. Over the past 20 years, more than 3,000 investigations from researchers in 108 countries have been accomplished aboard the orbiting facility. In the early days of ISS assembly, research took place at a more modest level than today. […]
NASA’s Orion Program has completed the System Acceptance Review and Design Certification Review to certify the Artemis I spacecraft is fit for flight, ready to venture from Earth to the lunar vicinity, and return home for landing and recovery. […]
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing the winds changing direction on Sep. 06, 2020 when choking clouds of brown smoke began to billow and cascade into the Pacific Ocean. […]
On Sept. 6, NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) imaged active fires across California, including the El Dorado fire near Yucaipa and the Valley fire in Japatul Valley in the southern part of the state. […]
NASA has issued another request to its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) partners to bid on flying a suite of payloads to the Moon. […]
NASA has selected Catherine Koerner as manager of the agency’s Orion Program. In this role, she will be responsible for the development and operations of NASA’s newest spacecraft that will carry astronauts on Artemis missions to the Moon and return them safely to Earth. […]
In a landmark study, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. […]
Many exploration destinations in our solar system are frigid and require hardware that can withstand the extreme cold. […]
Humanity has “eyes” that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe and a fleet of observatories in space. […]
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk gave Port Canaveral a special shout-out and recognized the Port’s special role in the effort to return astronauts to space from American soil. […]
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, has been completed. […]
