Items tagged with NASA
If you've been yearning for a change of pace and don't mind a little weightlessness, NASA is opening up applications for its next wave of spacefarers who possess a Master's in a STEM field with no apparent age limitation.
NASA is...
Read more...
After termination of operation on October 23, NASA’s 22-year-old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere around November 4.
Launched in November 2004, the 3,200-pound spacecraft transformed our...
Read more...
Trick or treat! Combined observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have unveiled new imagery of the Cat's Head Nebula, exposing a vibrant stellar nursery hidden beneath the namesake's...
Read more...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is preparing to launch the first supercomputer to the surface of the Moon. Riding aboard Astrolab’s FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform rover (a.k.a. FLIP, a smaller version of FLEX), the supercomputer will travel to...
Read more...
NASA is advancing new battery technology that can thrive in the brutal thermal extremes of the lunar surface. As part of the planned manned return to the Moon (under the Artemis program), energy storage systems must endure environments...
Read more...
Astronomers using fresh data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have uncovered an asteroid that defies usual planetary physics, spinning at a speed so fast it should technically be tearing itself apart, but isn't.
Now, most large...
Read more...
Perseverance, NASA’s little rover that could (or can), has set an all-time off-world driving record, traveling farther on another planetary body than any vehicle in human history. Crossing the 28.10 mile (45.22 kilometer) mark across the unforgiving Mars terrain, the six-wheeled robotic...
Read more...
Margaret Hamilton, the visionary computer scientist whose pioneering code guided NASA’s Apollo missions to the moon and established software engineering as a respected discipline, has passed at the age of 90.
Hamilton led the software...
Read more...
Within the Virgo Cluster, lies NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy roughly 55 million light-years away whose inner workings defy the expected order of things. Newly released images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a galaxy that is spinning in...
Read more...
Using NASA archives and ground-based observatories, astronomers have discovered Elias 2-24 b, a gas giant under one million years old that has just become the youngest exoplanet ever detected.
Located about 450 light-years from Earth...
Read more...
Astronomers have spotted a sizeable, freshly formed impact crater on the Moon, providing an unprecedented look at how violent cosmic collisions reshape lunar geology in real time.
Official deemed McGetchin, the new crater spans roughly...
Read more...
IBM and NASA have teamed up to launch the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI built to analyze petabytes of observations collected over decades of moon missions. Hosted publicly on Hugging Face alongside its GitHub codebase...
Read more...
NASA’s newest flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, has launched as scheduled on a mission to map the universe, hunt for distant planets, and unravel the cosmic mysteries of dark energy and dark matter.
The...
Read more...
Federal law enforcement has dismantled a major Chinese state-sponsored cyber-espionage apparatus that targeted critical infrastructure and key government agencies across the United States for nearly eight years. It also makes us wonder...
Read more...
A freshly released gallery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (as well as other telescopes) showcases 16 composite images of the cosmos, spotlighting colorful views of spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies.
The collection...
Read more...
One long-understood truth of environmental science is that plastic is not biodegradable. This is why recycling programs exist to begin with: both to protect the environment from harm and to save costs by reusing plastic and metals that...
Read more...
A $30 million rescue effort has come to an end, dooming NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope to a fiery atmospheric reentry later this year. The observatory had previously suffered major attitude control malfunctions and went into an...
Read more...
Newly released NASA orbital photos have revealed the final impact spot of the derelict SpaceX rocket stage on the Moon, offering scientists a better look at how artificial collisions can shape the lunar surface.
The Moon obtained a...
Read more...
NASA is funding the development of small, lighter-than-air "aerobots" equipped with solid-state atmospheric ion thrusters designed to swarm and navigate the unexplored, subterranean cave networks of Saturn's largest moon, Titan...
Read more...
The intrepid James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning infrared view of a dynamic planetary nebula roughly 4,200 light-years away in the constellation Gemini (NGC 2392), with its latest images revealing intricate dusty...
Read more...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered an extraordinary, sea-like expanse of geometric honeycomb patterns on Mars, providing novel evidence of how liquid water might have shaped the planet eons ago.
Imaged inside the Valle Grande Martian...
Read more...
Way in the outskirts of a galaxy 750 million light-years away, astronomers have caught an unlucky star being torn apart by a rogue supermassive black hole that has drifted more than 30,000 light-years from its host galaxy’s...
Read more...
