We Need a Rapid Asteroid Response Mission
Looking up at the night sky, it’s reasonable to believe that our Solar System is largely empty after all the only things easily visible are the planets. In reality its…
Mars is covered in evidence of ancient lakes, rain and snow — but scientists aren’t sure how that’s possible
Valleys on Mars suggest the Red Planet was once covered in flowing water — but it’s still a mystery how that could have been.
NASA Tracks Snowmelt to Improve Water Management
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The C-20A aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, flies over the Sierra Nevada Mountains…
NASA Marshall Fires Up Hybrid Rocket Motor to Prep for Moon Landings
4 Min Read NASA Marshall Fires Up Hybrid Rocket Motor to Prep for Moon Landings NASA’s Artemis campaign will use human landing systems, provided by SpaceX and Blue Origin, to…
OroraTech opens US office to expand wildfire monitoring network
German satellite operator OroraTech opened its U.S. headquarters in Denver, Colorado, April 24 to push its growing wildfire-monitoring constellation into a country that regularly experiences some of the world’s most…
Planning on rewatching ‘Revenge of the Sith’ for its 20th anniversary? Here’s why ‘The Clone Wars’ finale makes it a better movie
The end of the long-running animated show puts Anakin Skywalker’s downfall in a whole new perspective.
World’s Largest Solar Telescope Gets the World’s Largest Spectro-Polarimeter
Telescopes can have more than one sensor. Those sensors can utilize some of the same infrastructure, like lenses and mirrors, and specialize in collecting different data. A good example of…
New York Stock Exchange Welcomes NASA’s SPHEREx Team
The New York Stock Exchange welcomed team members from NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission to celebrate the launch of…
Mars orbiter snaps 1st image of Curiosity rover driving on the Red Planet (photo)
A NASA Mars orbiter recently spotted the Curiosity rover driving across the Red Planet’s surface, capturing an unprecedented off-Earth action shot.
Half the Stellar Mass in the Universe Formed During Cosmic Noon
About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the first atoms formed. The first light of what we now see as the cosmic microwave background was released, and the primordial hydrogen…