Femtosecond lasers are used to fabricate precision ultrathin mirrors for space telescopes that capture star formation and other high-energy space events.
A new way to make telescope mirrors could sharpen our view of the universe.
Category: Astronomy and Space
Thank you JWST, for the clearest picture of Neptune’s rings in more than three decades.
Neptune has fascinated researchers since its discovery in 1846. Located 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth, Neptune orbits in the remote, dark region of the outer solar system. And it has rings!
NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit.
Check out the pictures sent back to Earth as NASA’s DART mission hits Dimorphos asteroid in first-ever planetary defense test.
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.
NASA released a revised version of its Moon to Mars objectives Tuesday, forming a blueprint for shaping exploration throughout the solar system.
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.
NASA identifies thirteen candidate regions for landing next Americans on Moon
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…
Check out the historic first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever launched into space!
Via President Joe Biden, NASA today released the first historic images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
NASA released historic first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA today released the first historic images from the James Web Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever launched into space.
How do astronauts wash their hair in space? Chinese astronaut shows us how she washes her hair aboard the nation’s Tianhe space station.
Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping spent six months aboard the nation’s Tianhe space station module. As you can imagine, keeping her hair clean in microgravity was a part of her stay. In the video below, Yaping demonstrates how astronauts wash their hair in space.
Starliner Launches to Space Station on Uncrewed Flight Test for NASA.
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.
