The future of research and technology at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is expanding Wednesday, as Kennedy’s center director and charter members in the Florida University Space Research Consortium signed a memorandum of understanding in research and development to assist with missions and contribute to NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach. Officials from the […]
NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation. This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14739.Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Although SpaceX founder Elon Musk is known for outspokenness and controversial comments on his social media site X, he has been relatively restrained when it comes to US space policy in recent years. For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, […]
In this visualization, the LEXI instrument is shown onboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which will deliver 10 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) payloads to the moon. Credit: Firefly Aerospace A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of […]
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the moon in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission. Artemis II will utilize NASA’s Space Launch Systemwhich is an extremely powerful rocket that will enable human space exploration beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The crew […]
An artist’s concept showing Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA/APL Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the […]
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, the spacecraft hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever […]
NASA sent its Parker Solar Probe just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun — and it survived. The probe transmitted a signal back to Earth on the night of December 26th, “indicating it’s in good health and operating normally,” according to NASA. The mission marks the closest the Parker Solar Probe — […]
Nasa has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is “operating normally” after making the closest-ever approach to the Sun by a spacecraft. The pioneering probe made its closest approach to the star on Christmas Eve, zipping past just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface at a speed of about 430,000 miles an hour. This […]
Probing a distant galaxy like a “cosmic crime scene” with the Hubble Space Telescope after a “tip-off” from the Chandra X-ray telescope, NASA scientists have discovered a strange black hole that is tipped onto its side. The sideways black hole was discovered in the galaxy NGC 5084, a lenticular (lens-shaped) galaxy located around 80 million […]
