Telescope Milestone: Teams Check Out NASA Roman Solar Panels

The solar panels that will help power NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope completed prelaunch cleaning and inspections July 8 at…

Spacecraft Commissioning On Track for Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift

Teams continue to progress through in-orbit preparations for the robotic servicing spacecraft designed to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory…

NASA Study of Pristine Meteorite Adds to Story of Ancient Asteroids

A meteorite recovered immediately upon its fall to Earth on July 16, 2024, is helping NASA scientists uncover new clues…

New NASA Study Says Possibly No Limit to Solar Storm Effects

For decades, scientists have thought that there is a ceiling to how intensely Earth responds to solar storms. However, a…

NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hiding…

Utah Helicopter Flights Test NASA’s DAVINCI Mission to Venus

To prepare their spacecraft for Venus, NASA’s DAVINCI scientists traveled to the most Venus-like place on Earth.

NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Spot Distant Black Holes That Shred Stars

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. How do black holes at the center of galaxies form and grow over…

NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes

Astronomers using archival data from Hubble and supportive observations from Webb have located their first stellar-mass black hole in the…

On-Orbit Checkouts in Progress for Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift

Commissioning is well underway for Katalyst’s robotic servicing spacecraft LINK, which is designed to boost the orbit of NASA’s Neil…

NASA’s Roman Launch Preparations Proceed

With less than two months until the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space…

NASA Small Satellite Could Make Global Positioning More Precise

GRITSS will demonstrate the feasibility of a new technique for improving precision navigation and geodetic measurements.

NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refuge

NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus…

NASA to Preview Katalyst Mission to Boost Swift Spacecraft’s Orbit

NASA will host an audio-only media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 17, to preview the Katalyst Space mission…

NASA Says Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission, Hosts Media Call Today

The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has…

NASA Invites Media to See Roman Space Telescope Arrive at Kennedy

Registration is open for media to cover the arrival of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the agency’s Kennedy…