NASA Selects University Teams to Help Advance Aviation Research
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA has selected four university teams to help the agency transform the future of aviation through projects ranging from…
The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments
4 Min Read The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. (shown here) participated in visual experiments during the…
NASA Data Feeds River Forecasts as Snow Drought Effects Linger
Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Science Agriculture Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth Science at…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 4: Looking For Us
Some signs of an alien civilization are easier to spot than signs of life itself. On technosignatures, from CFCs and industrial gases to the pandemic dip in pollution, and why…
Hypersonic missile startup Castelion raises $1 billion
Company founded by former SpaceX executives aims to produce a low-cost hypersonic weapon and a broader portfolio of longer-range strike and missile defense weapons The post Hypersonic missile startup Castelion…
Eartheye Space forges strategic partnership with IN2
SAN FRANCISCO – Strategic communications and consulting firm IN2 will have access to Eartheye Space multi-sensor satellite tasking and analytics through a memorandum of understanding signed Aug. 19. IN2 will…
Scientists just found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It zooms around our black hole at 15,500 miles per second
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Dubbed S301,…
Webb Captures the Treasure Chest at the Heart of the Carina Nebula
This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month takes us to a fantastical realm within our home galaxy, where piercing starlight and billowing winds sculpt dust clouds into…
Private mission to save NASA’s Swift space telescope fails
NASA is calling off the effort to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after a private rescue spacecraft couldn’t overcome its own problems in orbit. LINK, the specialized probe from…
Pluto Planetary Science is the Gift that Keeps on Giving
Something’s wetting the surface of dwarf planet Pluto along the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, and planetary scientists have found a good explanation for it. A recent study of new…