Space News
NASA Glenn Research Highlighted in Tape Exhibit
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 21:52
Beginning May 24, Great Lakes Science Center, home of the NASA Glenn Visitor Center, will welcome guests aboard TapeScape: International Tape Station. The unique exhibit focuses on the dynamic intersection of materials...
Go Back to the Future with NASA at Comicpalooza 2024
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 22:59
Celebrate your pop-culture fandom and uncover the latest science, technology, and discoveries of human spaceflight and exploration with NASA's Johnson Space Center at Comicpalooza 2024 from May 24 to 26 at George R. Brow...
NASA Glenn Joins COSI's Big Science Celebration
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 21:53
NASA's Glenn Research Center joined Center for Science and Industry, or COSI’s, Big Science Celebration event on the museum’s front lawn in Columbus, Ohio, on May 4. This event was centered around STEM careers and bu...
Glenn Digital Specialists Earn NASA Awards
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 21:52
Four of NASA Glenn Research Center's digital specialists were selected as 2023 NASA Photographers and Videographers of the Year. The winning photos and videos showcased NASA's people, places, and projects, as captured by...
NASA Glenn Kicks Off Ohio Space Forum
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 21:52
NASA's Glenn Research Center kicked off the Ohio Space Forum with a tour of several research facilities at its Cleveland location on April 29. The annual two-day forum brings together federal, military, industry, and aca...
Sols 4188-4190: Aurora Watch on Mars
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 03:02
Earth planning date: Friday, May 17, 2024 During the night of May 10, Earth experienced a fantastic display of aurorae (Northern and Southern Lights) which extended all the way to tropical latitudes, courtesy of the stro...
Modeling the Hawaiian Shoreline
NASA Breaking news - 22 May 2024 00:18
The island of Hawai'i and surrounding waters glow in unusual shades in this 2022 model made through NASA DEVELOP. The model was created to help the County of Hawai'i in their shoreline setback plan. The image shows areas...
Kan Yang: Translating Science Ideas into Engineering Concepts
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 22:24
As team lead of the Instrument Design Laboratory, Kan Yang turns science concepts into engineering reality. Name: Kan YangTitle: Team Lead of the Instrument Design LaboratoryFormal Job Classification: Technical ManagerOr...
NASA Tool Gets Ready to Image Faraway Planets
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 21:01
A technology demo on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help increase the variety of distant planets scientists can directly image. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope wil...
NASA Leaders to Host Agency Town Hall on Artificial Intelligence
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 18:05
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy are hosting an employee town hall at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 22, to discuss how the agency is using and developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools t...
Black holes are mysterious, yet also deceptively simple ' a new space mission may help physicists answer hairy questions about these astronomical objects
SPACE.com - 21 May 2024 17:00
For years, physicists have been looking to prove that black holes are more complex than they seem. And a newly approved European space mission called LISA will help us with this hunt.
Dream Chaser space plane arrives in Florida ahead of 1st launch to ISS (photo)
SPACE.com - 22 May 2024 01:00
Dream Chaser is almost ready for its first mission. The space plane Tenacity and a cargo module are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for final testing ahead of an ISS launch.
Boston University wins Collegiate Space Competition
Space News - 22 May 2024 00:17
Boston University students proposed pushing defunct satellites from geosynchronous Earth orbit to a graveyard orbit with cubesats. The post Boston University wins Collegiate Space Competition appeared first on SpaceNews.
NASA's Heliophysics Experiment to Study Sun on European Mission
NASA Breaking news - 22 May 2024 00:11
NASA announced Tuesday it selected a new instrument to study the Sun and how it creates massive solar eruptions. The agency's Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation, or JEDI, will capture images of the Sun in extreme...
Doctor Who 'Boom': Who are the marines really fighting on Kastarion 3?
SPACE.com - 22 May 2024 00:09
The Doctor has his foot on a landmine throughout this high-concept adventure for episode 3 -- but who's the real enemy on Kastarion 3?
China's Chang'e 6 mission gearing up for early June landing on moon's far side
SPACE.com - 22 May 2024 00:00
China's robotic Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to the lunar far side is now in orbit around the moon, gearing up for its landing attempt.
Some Dinosaurs Sported Scales and Feathers as an Evolutionary Advantage
Discover - 22 May 2024 00:00
X-Rays and UV examinations of Psittacosaurus skin shine light on dinosaur transition from reptile to bird.
The habitable worlds observatory could see lunar and solar 'exo-eclipses'
Phys.org - 21 May 2024 23:40
A future space observatory could use exo-eclipses to tease out exomoon populations.
Observe the sun in detail and save 25% on Celestron's EclipSmart binoculars
SPACE.com - 21 May 2024 23:02
Celestron's EclipSmart binoculars are specialists for solar observation and now they're 25% off on Amazon
A comet approaching Earth could become brighter than the stars this fall
SPACE.com - 21 May 2024 23:00
By the end of this summer, we may have a good idea as to whether we'll have a bright naked-eye comet gracing our early autumn evening sky, known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS).
SpaceX launching next-gen US spy satellites early May 22
SPACE.com - 21 May 2024 22:30
SpaceX plans to launch the first batch of satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's "proliferated architecture" early Wednesday morning (May 22).
Discovery Alert: Mini-Neptune in Double Star System is a Planetary Puzzle
NASA Breaking news - 21 May 2024 21:38
The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars that also orbit each other. The planet dwells in the "habitable zone," with a potentially moderate temperat...