Aircraft on Another Planet Is Showing NASA a Thing or Two About Flying
23 Nov 2023, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is now using test flights of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars to inform the development of another generation of off-world aircraft
This Is How NASA Uses Nasty Radioactive Plutonium to Conquer Space
22 Nov 2023, 12:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it got delivery of one pound (0.5 kg) of plutonium-238 from the U.S. Department of Energy, will use it on future missions
This Is the Largest Blunt Body to Reenter Earth's Atmosphere, It Brought Back a Mystery
20 Nov 2023, 11:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA engineers have looked over the data from last year's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator test, and the results are pleasing
Convair 990 Coronado: How a Failed Airliner Found a Robot Tank Buddy at NASA
17 Nov 2023, 22:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Convair 990 Coronado, a failed commercial passenger jetliner that had a miraculous second renaissance working for NASA.
Spacecraft Shoots Laser Beam at Earth, NASA Catches It in California
17 Nov 2023, 13:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstrator fired its first laser beam at Earth, proving optical comms could work from very large distances
NASA Reveals Very American Paint Scheme for the X-59 Supersonic Experimental Aircraft
17 Nov 2023, 08:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental aircraft is currently getting a paint job in the colors of the American flag.
Vulcan Centaur: United Launch Alliance's First All-New Rocket Launches Christmas Eve 2023
15 Nov 2023, 20:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the Vulcan Centaur, and it's here to prove that SpaceX and Blue Origin aren't the only names in town in heavy-lift American booster rockets
Moon Landing Sim Made by 228,572-CPU NASA Computer Looks Misleadingly Crappy
15 Nov 2023, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA releases a 30-second sim made with the Pleiades supercomputer showing the effects of the Apollo 12 lander on the lunar surface
Hubble and James Webb Telescopes Team Up to Snap Amazing Compound View of the Cosmos
10 Nov 2023, 18:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Safe to say, this probably won't be the last time that America's two most famous and powerful telescopes work together. far from it.
Humans Have Found a Black Hole So Massive It's Like an Entire Galaxy
9 Nov 2023, 14:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and a team of researchers released the first details on a black hole at a stage in its development never seen before
NASA's Two Most Important Space Telescopes Team Up To Find Record-Breaking Black Hole
7 Nov 2023, 20:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / While Chandra observed the more apparent X-ray blasts emitted in the foreground of the above composite image, JWST used its infrared sensors to fill the blanks.
NASA Can't Make its Mind Up Over Who Builds the Next Lunar Rover, Delayed Four Months
6 Nov 2023, 18:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Had all gone according to plan, NASA intended to have the contracts signed and production orders put in place for the Artemis program by November 27th, 2023.
James Webb Space Telescope Snaps Newborn Star Throwing Cosmic Temper Tantrum
6 Nov 2023, 15:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The peculiar stellar object in question snapped by JWST is known as Herbig-Haro (HH) 212. As a cosmological mish-mash of stellar dust and stars.
NASA Has a Most Detailed Map of Water Spots on Mars, Here's What It's Used For
6 Nov 2023, 08:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it now has the most detailed map of underwater ice on the Mars, plans to use it to decide where to land the first crewed mission
Some People Think the International Space Station Is a “Waste of Space,” They’re Wrong
4 Nov 2023, 00:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As we blow out 25 candles for ISS this month, it's essential to integrate its minor downsides into the same story of its considerable upside.
Long Dead NASA Probe Discovers Exoplanet System Scorched by Savage Mother Star
3 Nov 2023, 18:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Say hello to the Kepler 385 system. It has more in common with the modern conception of hell than any resemblance to our own Solar System.
New NASA App Lets Amateur Observers Track and Spot the ISS With Ease
3 Nov 2023, 13:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / From first-time stargazers to experienced veterans, there's not a space junkie out there that can't benefit observing the ISS a little easier.
Twin NASA X-Ray Telescopes Snap Tendrils of a Cosmic Space Monster, It's Just a Pulsar
2 Nov 2023, 22:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's because Chandra and IXPE capture X-ray signatures from such vast distances away that we can observe these gusts of pulsar radiation.
NASA’s Juno Probe Detects Potential Organic Compounds on Ganymede, Is It Ancient Life?
2 Nov 2023, 18:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Previous observations of by the Galileo space probe and the Hubble Space Telescope from low-Earth orbit have insinuated the planet was hiding something.
NASA May Have Just Stumbled Upon the Mother of All Space Navigation Solutions
1 Nov 2023, 11:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-REx mission used as a backup navigation solution something called the Goddard Image Analysis and Navigation Tool