NASA Finally Launches Powerful Landsat 9 Satellite to Continue 50-Year Legacy of Earth Observation

Medicine & Technology Sep 27, 2021

NASA and the US Geological Survey successfully launched Landsat 9, a satellite that will spend its days in space studying Earth's coasts and landscapes throughout time.

Hubble Space Telescope Detects Winds in Jupiter's Great Red Spot Speeding Up to 400 Miles Per Hour, Does This Makes Sense?

Sep 27, 2021

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows that the winds in Jupiter's Great Red Spot are accelerating at a speed of 400mph (644kph), like the speed of an advancing race car.

NASA Mars Perseverance Shares Rover’s Busy Day on Red Planet With a Selfie

Sep 27, 2021

NASA has released new photos of the Perseverance Mars rover, which is searching the Red Planet for clues of ancient microbial life.

Can NASA Get Water From Moon, Mars? Virginia Tech Thinks So!

Sep 26, 2021

Virginia Tech team thinks it can help NASA bring water on moon and Mars to Earth by making prototypes that extracts and harvest the most water samples from the planets.

NASA Landsat 9 to Launch via United Launch Alliance Atlas V Rocket After Multiple Delays

Sep 26, 2021

After a delay owing to a liquid nitrogen shortfall, NASA's Landsat 9, the most powerful satellite to survey the Earth, will go into orbit atop ULA's Atlas V Rocket.

SpaceX to Add More Crew Dragon Fleet As Cargo Ship Will Bring 4,600 Pounds of Supplies to ISS

Sep 26, 2021

While interest for commercial Crew Dragon trips is increasing, SpaceX will deliver more than 4,600 pounds of supplies and scientific research to the International Space Station.

Will Elon Musk Ever Go to Space? Billionaire SpaceX Founder Not Yet Sure When

Sep 24, 2021

Will Elon Musk ever going to space following the steps of other billionaire founders Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson? Perhaps someday, but it seems that it is not yet the priority of SpaceX as of now.

NASA Hubble Space Telescope Detects Einstein Ring; What Makes This Special? [WATCH]

Sep 24, 2021

Another spectacular example of a deep-space optical phenomena known as a "Einstein ring" was discovered by NASA Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA to Release James Webb Telescope Soon; Will This Compete With Roman Space Telescope?

Sep 23, 2021

NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the mid-2020s, and had a panoramic field of vision at least 100 times better than Hubble's. Will the James Webb Telescope be able to compete?

NASA Boeing Starliner Update: Test Launch  Might Lead to 2022 As Module Needs Replacement

Sep 23, 2021

The study into Boeing's troubled maiden test flight of a Starliner crew capsule is now complete, and the firm and agency are planning a second test flight later this year.

NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Readies For 14th Flight; Will Flying This Copter Challenging?

Sep 23, 2021

The NASA Ingenuity helicopter is gearing up for its 14th mission to Mars, but the thin Martian air is making such missions increasingly difficult.

NASA Hubble Telescope Spots 6 Dead Giant Galaxies From Early Cosmos; How Did They Run Out of Fuel to Make Stars?

Sep 22, 2021

Six early, huge, "dead" galaxies were discovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

NASA's Umbilical Test Completed: A New Milestone for the Space Agency for Its SLS Artemis 1 Mission

Sep 22, 2021

The Space Launch System rocket of NASA recently completed another milestone on its way to take off with the URRT or the Umbilical Release and Retract Test.

NASA Splits Human Exploration Into Two Departments to Better Improve on Future Space Flights

Sep 21, 2021

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday that the agency would establish two new mission divisions that will best position the space agency for the next 20 years.

NASA Spacecraft to Investigate Metal-Rich Asteroid Psyche By Launching Futuristic Electric Thrusters Emitting Cool Blue Glow

Sep 21, 2021

NASA spacecraft will be fueled by futuristic electric thrusters generating a blue glow when they launch in 2022 to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, which is "worth more than $10,000 quadrillion."