NASA Invites Media to Djibouti Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
Credit: NASA The Republic of Djibouti will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 11 a.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 14, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 72nd country…
NASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy
President Donald Trump presents an executive order establishing the United States Space Academy during an event to award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew as…
NASA’s Life-Saving Technology Where Cell Signals Can’t Go
3 Min Read NASA’s Life-Saving Technology Where Cell Signals Can’t Go Rescued after more than four hours in the water, Easton Barrett (center, red shorts) and his friend were picked…
The Summer Triangle — 3 stars, 1 seasonal mystery
On clear September evenings, I often find myself looking up just after dusk, expecting the sky to feel a little less like summer. Yet there, still commanding the overhead darkness,…
Unexplained Gamma-Rays from the Galactic Center Could be from Self-Annihilating Dark Matter
Over a decade ago, the Fermi satellite detected an excess of gamma-ray emissions in the galactic center. Potential explanations included Sgr. A*, the Milky Way’s SMBH, pulsars, and even self-annihilating…
On this day in space! Sept. 10, 2011: NASA launches GRAIL probes to the moon to map lumpy lunar gravity
On Sept. 10, 2011, NASA’s GRAIL spacecraft launched on a mission to the moon! GRAIL, which stands for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, was sent to the moon to map…
LINK spacecraft gets close to NASA’s Swift Observatory, but not close enough to save it
LINK, the satellite sent to boost the orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory, may have had to give up on its mission, but LINK’s manufacturer and operator Katalyst Space hasn’t completely…
NASA, NFL Team Up to Showcase Space, Aeronautics Innovation
A football floats in microgravity aboard the International Space Station, high above the Earth. Credit: NASA Through a new collaboration between NASA and the National Football League (NFL), the agency…
A New Surface Atlas of Phobos Will Help JAXA’s MMX Mission Collect its Samples
JAXA’s Martian Moon eXploration (MMX) will be on its way to Mars and Phobos next month. It will collect samples from Phobos and return them to Earth. A new morphodynamic…
Scientists study 3,000 supernovas and discover that dark energy may be evolving
A catalog of almost 3,000 white dwarfs that exploded as type Ia supernovas after overfeeding on companion stars indicates that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the…