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NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA’s New Frontiers…
Headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just three months…
One year ago today, the future of space communications arrived at Earth as a beam of light from a NASA…
Matthew Kowalewski describes himself as “curious about too many things,” but that curiosity comes in handy when engineering instrumentation scheduled…
NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA’s…
As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for…
NASA Science Activation’s Solar System Treks collaborated with Astrobiology SciComm Guild SMEs to create enhancements to the Europa Trek portal.
NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an…
Find details about the launch sequences for the orbiter, which is targeting an Oct. 14 liftoff on its mission to…
With a spacecraft launching soon, the mission will try to answer the question of whether there are ingredients suitable for…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a…
Nota del editor: Este comunicado se actualizó el 12 de octubre de 2024 para reflejar una nueva fecha de lanzamiento…
Editor’s note: This advisory was updated Oct. 13, 2024, to reflect a change in the start time for the prelaunch…
The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to Mars’ farthest…
From Aug. 19-20, ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby…
With NASA’s Europa Clipper just weeks away from launch, five short videos give a behind-the-scenes peek at some of the…
The first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth, Europa Clipper aims to find out if the…
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 9, to provide an update on Europa Clipper,…
NASA and SpaceX are targeting a launch period opening Thursday, Oct. 10, for the agency’s Europa Clipper mission, which will…
Lee este artículo en español aquí Digital content creators are invited to register to attend the launch of the…
The largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for planetary exploration just got its ‘wings’ — massive solar arrays to power…
As part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the…
NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission continues to yield scientific discoveries and garner accolades for its groundbreaking achievements. The mission team was…
Using cameras designed for navigation, scientists count ‘fireflies’ to determine the amount of radiation the spacecraft receives during each orbit…
The excerpts below are taken from Discovery Program oral history interviews conducted in 2009 by Dr. Susan Niebur and tell…
In studying data collected from NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which in 2022 sent a spacecraft to intentionally collide with the…
Scientists from around the world are gathering this week in California to take stock of the state of science from…
Scientists have eagerly awaited the opportunity to dig into the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) pristine asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx…
Infrared imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft heats up the discussion on the inner workings of Jupiter’s hottest moon. New findings…
NASA has selected 12 participating scientists to join ESA’s (European Space Agency) Hera mission, which is scheduled to launch in…
For the benefit of all, NASA released a summary Thursday of the fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise. NASA’s…
Images from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on Dinkinesh where a…
The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA’s Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a…
Mission engineers were confident NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification – Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever…
The spacecraft already is beyond the distance of Mars and is using ion propulsion to accelerate toward a metal-rich asteroid,…
Imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft shows some intriguing features on the ice-encased Jovian moon. Images from the JunoCam visible-light camera…
NASA has selected 40 undergraduate students for the first year of its Europa ICONS (Inspiring Clipper: Opportunities for Next-generation Scientists)…
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s communication system for the first time, transmitting engineering…
Imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft provides close-ups of intriguing features on the hellish Jovian moon. Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission…
NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to progress to…
Excitement is mounting as the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission gets readied for an October…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) team received the American Astronomical Society’s Neil Armstrong…
A gantlet of tests prepared the spacecraft for its challenging trip to the Jupiter system, where it will explore the…
NASA and the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission team have won the National…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team was selected as the winner of the National Space Club and Foundation’s 2024 Dr. Robert H. Goddard…
After NASA’s historic Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a JPL-led study has shown that the shape of asteroid Dimorphos has changed…
When it launches in October, the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a richly layered dispatch that includes more than…
The Kepler mission enabled the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, revealing a deep truth about our place in the cosmos:…
The ice-covered Jovian moon generates 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours – enough to keep a million humans breathing…
