In a few days, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) will perform a maneuver that no agency spacecraft has flown before — and do it twice. Each of the two ESCAPADE spacecraft will execute a “powered” flyby of Earth, combining Earth’s gravity with an engine burn, to slingshot itself toward Mars. The […]
Editor’s Note: NASA updated this article Wednesday, Nov. 4, to reflect confirmation of Swift re-entry. NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory re-entered Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday, almost 22 years after launch. At launch, Swift was a first-of-its-kind multiwavelength observatory designed to study the most powerful explosions in the cosmos using its three telescopes. The U.S. Space Force […]
Space crops research wrapped up the week following the completion of the first of two power upgrade spacewalks at the International Space Station. The Expedition 75 crew members rounded out their research schedule with virtual reality and super intelligence studies.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronNASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3:08 p.m. EDT.
NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission has gathered its first clues to how space weather affects Earth’s magnetic field. In a new paper, researchers break down how these interactions work after analyzing initial observations from the first year of the mission. The two TRACERS spacecraft launched last year to explore how […]
NASA’s Voyager team is celebrating two recent developments with the Voyager 1 spacecraft: In September, they successfully completed a months-long effort to stretch the spacecraft’s diminishing power supply. Then, on Oct. 20, an unexpected loss of communication with the spacecraft resolved itself after 48 hours, before the team sent commands to the spacecraft to troubleshoot […]
NASA-funded researchers are helping Virginia officials assess the impacts of a harmful algal bloom on oyster farms along the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk began a spacewalk at 7:57 a.m. EDT outside the International Space Station airlock to install and deploy an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array on the 2A electrical power channel.
NASA is streaming live coverage as two astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
One year ago, NASA’s Quesst mission made history with the first flight of the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. Since then, the X-59 has completed 40 additional flights, marking a year of steady progress for the program. While its first flight on Oct. 28, 2025, focused on low, slow flights to conduct systems checks, the X-59 has since reached a maximum altitude of more than 56,000 feet and speeds up to Mach 1.53. The X-59 has spent […]
