After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.
The guideposts in the agency’s Moon to Mars exploration approach will help shape NASA’s investments, as well as those of the agency’s industry and international partners, toward the Moon and beyond.
As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon under the Artemis program, the agency has identified thirteen candidate landing regions near the lunar South Pole. Each region contains multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III, which will be the first of the Artemis missions to bring crew to the lunar surface, including the…
NASA today released the first historic images from the James Web Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever launched into space.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is in orbit, heading for the International Space Station following launch Thursday of the next-generation spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket on a mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the crew-capable system as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
The month’s long process of aligning the James Webb Telescope’s 18 mirrors has begun and NASA has let us in on the fun. Today NASA released the first 18 images from the massive telescope, one image from each of its 18 primary mirror segments.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations.
The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations.
The moon again refuses to cooperate with sky gazers in 2022 making the year a less-than-stellar one for meteor shower fans. Still, we have a few surprises in store including a brand new shoer, the Tau Herculids, which may be visible for the first time in 2022.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America.
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