NASA to live coverage Artemis I mission Demonstration Test, Host Media Call [Live schedule, streaming website details]

NASA to live coverage Artemis I mission Demonstration Test, Host Media Call [Live schedule, streaming website details]

NASA will provide live coverage with commentary of the upcoming Artemis I cryogenic demonstration test beginning at 7:15 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 21. The demonstration test will allow teams to confirm the repair to a hydrogen leak seen during an early September Artemis I launch attempt, evaluate updated propellant loading procedures, and conduct additional evaluations. The demonstration will conclude […]

Where do high-energy particles that endanger satellites, astronauts, airplanes come from?

Where do high-energy particles that endanger satellites, astronauts, airplanes come from?

For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a vexing problem about the weather in outer space: At unpredictable times, high-energy particles bombard the earth and objects outside the earth’s atmosphere with radiation that can endanger the lives of astronauts and destroy satellites’ electronic equipment. These flare-ups can even trigger showers of radiation strong enough […]

 Artemis I Launch Update: Repair Work Underway, Preparations Continue for Next Launch

 Artemis I Launch Update: Repair Work Underway, Preparations Continue for Next Launch

Engineers are making progress repairing the area where a liquid hydrogen leak was detected during the Artemis I launch attempt Sept. 3, and NASA is preserving options for the next launch opportunity as early as Friday, Sept. 23.  Technicians constructed a tent-like enclosure around the work area to protect the hardware and teams from weather and other environmental conditions […]

NASA Awards $4 Million Through New Space Grant KIDS Opportunity

NASA Awards $4 Million Through New Space Grant KIDS Opportunity

NASA is awarding more than $4 million to institutions across the U.S. to help bring the excitement of authentic NASA experiences to groups of middle and high school students who are traditionally underserved and underrepresented in STEM. The new Space Grant K-12 Inclusiveness and Diversity in STEM (SG KIDS) opportunity will boost these students’ sense […]

NASA Hosts National Space Council Meeting, Vice President Kamala Harris Chairs Event

NASA Hosts National Space Council Meeting, Vice President Kamala Harris Chairs Event

Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the importance of climate, human spaceflight, and STEM education during the Biden-Harris Administration’s second National Space Council meeting Friday, held at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. “For generations, with our allies and partners around the globe, America has led our world in the exploration and use of space,” said […]

30 Doradus: Thousands of stunning young stars in “cosmic tarantula”captured by James Webb telescope

30 Doradus: Thousands of stunning young stars in “cosmic tarantula”captured by James Webb telescope

Thousands of never-before-seen young stars spotted in a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, called Tarantula Nebula owing to its appearance in dusty filaments. The nebula has long been a favorite for astronomers studying star formation and the  Webb has been revealing beautiful distant background galaxies, as well as […]

First underground radar images from Mars Perseverance rover reveal some surprises

First underground radar images from Mars Perseverance rover reveal some surprises

Key takeaways: Roving the Red Planet. Perseverance landed on Mars in February 2021 and has been gathering data on the planet’s geology and climate and searching for signs of ancient life.​​​​​​ What lies beneath. The rover’s subsurface radar experiment, co-led by UCLA’s David Paige, has returned images showing unexpected variations in rock layers beneath the Jezero crater. Probing […]

Apply now to experience the Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Mission[Full details]

Apply now to experience the Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Mission[Full details]

Digital content creators are invited to register to attend the launch of the fifth SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission. This mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The earliest targeted launch date for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission […]

NASA’s Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere

NASA’s Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. This observation of a gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light-years away provides important insights into the composition and formation of the planet. The finding, accepted for publication in […]

NASA hopes to Launch Artemis I Moon Mission on Sept 3

NASA hopes to Launch Artemis I Moon Mission on Sept 3

NASA will target Saturday, Sept. 3 at 2:17 p.m. EDT, the beginning of a two-hour window, for the launch of Artemis I, the first integrated test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and the ground systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission managers met Tuesday to discuss data and develop […]

Sharpest image ever of universe’s most massive known star

Sharpest image ever of universe’s most massive known star

By harnessing the capabilities of the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, which is part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, astronomers have obtained the sharpest image ever of the star R136a1, the most massive known star in the Universe. Their research, led by NOIRLab astronomer Venu M. Kalari, challenges our understanding […]

Sperm being sent to ISS to see whether they squirm the same way in Space

Sperm being sent to ISS to see whether they squirm the same way in Space

Remember when you first learned about reproduction process in health class at school? Well, NASA biologists are wondering how some of those basics of how fertilization would work if sperm and egg were to unite in space. In other words, having sex aboard on ISS and examine how the sperm squirm in weightlessness — is their […]

Japan scientist finds 1 out of 15 exoplanets habitable

Japan scientist finds 1 out of 15 exoplanets habitable

Japanese astronomer team led by Teruyuki Hirano of Tokyo Institute of Technology has validated 15 exoplanets orbiting red dwarf systems and found one of them highly akin to Earth and habitable. It could be of particular interest as researchers describe it as a ‘super-Earth’, which could harbour liquid water, and potential alien life. One of them, K2-155 […]