NASA Stashes Twin Probes After Canceling $50 Million Asteroid Mission
NASA is going to store a pair of spacecraft at a facility, awaiting a second chance to go to space should the agency find a new purpose for them. First…
These new NASA EVs will drive astronauts part way to the moon (sort of)
Three specially designed, fully electric, environmentally friendly crew transportation vehicles for Artemis missions arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week. The zero-emission vehicles, which will carry astronauts…
NASA’s experimental supersonic jet edges toward first test flight
Previous Next NASA’s X-59 supersonic aircraft. Lockheed Martin/Garry Tice NASA’s X-59 supersonic aircraft. Lockheed Martin/Martin Tice NASA’s experimental X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) plane is gearing up for its first…
You Up? Mars Helicopter Finally Makes Contact After Two Months of Silence
After 63 days of agonizing silence, NASA’s Martian chopper finally phoned home. The Ingenuity helicopter reestablished communication with mission control on June 28, officially logging its 52nd flight as a…
NASA restores contact with Mars helicopter after nine weeks of silence
The last time NASA had contact with Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter was flying in the air on April 26. Ten weeks on, the Mars team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
Saturn as you’ve never seen it before, captured by Webb telescope
NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST Saturn team NASA has shared a gorgeous image of Saturn captured recently by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Webb’s first near-infrared observations of the second…
Triple-Core Rockets and ‘Donuts’ on Mars: Marvel at the Best Spaceflight Imagery From June
Liftoff of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket on June 22, 2023.Gif: ULA/Gizmodo There’s plenty of smoke in the air—and not just from Canada’s raging wildfires. Indeed, the past month…
Watch Live: SpaceX to Launch Euclid—Europe’s Dark Universe Telescope
An artist’s concept of the Euclid mission in space.Illustration: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up for the launch of its highly anticipated mission…
This Nonprofit Wants to Catapult Material From Incoming Asteroids to Protect Earth
In February 2013, an asteroid about the size of a house punched its way through Earth’s atmosphere and broke apart over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The blast was so…
NASA’s skywatching tips for July feature stars called Regulus and Fomalhaut
What’s Up: July 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA If you never look up at the sky on a clear night, you’re missing out on a lot. But with so many…