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Webb images new, cold exoplanet 12 light-years away
ESA · 24 Jul 2024
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from Earth. While there were hints that the planet existed, it had not been...
NASA’s Webb Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 24 Jul 2024
Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through launch, Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument also revealed jets of gas flowing into space from the twin stars.
NASA’s Webb Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away
NASA · 24 Jul 2024
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from Earth. The planet, Epsilon Indi Ab, is one of the coldest exoplanets observed to d...
NASA’s ICON Mission Ends with Several Ionospheric Breakthroughs
NASA · 24 Jul 2024
After contributing to many important findings on the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space, the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission has come to an end. ICON launched in October 2019 and after completin...
Media Invited to Watch NASA Stream 4K Video to Space
NASA · 24 Jul 2024
NASA invites media to attend a real-time laser communications experiment at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Researchers are testing a laser communications networking system that could enable the public t...
NASA Streams First 4K Video from Aircraft to Space Station, Back
NASA · 24 Jul 2024
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International Space Station and back for the first time using optical, or laser, communications. The feat was part of...
45 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Enterprise Completes Launch Pad Checkout
NASA · 24 Jul 2024
On July 23, 1979, space shuttle Enterprise completed its time as a pathfinder vehicle at Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Workers towed it back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Durin...
NASA prepares to roll Artemis 2 core stage to the Vehicle Assembly Building
Spaceflight Now · 24 Jul 2024
The massive 212-foot-long core stage of the Space Launch System rocket arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center late Tuesday morning. Rollout to the VAB is set to begin around 9 a.m. EDT on Wednesday.
Review concludes proposed NASA budget cuts would end Chandra
SpaceNews · 24 Jul 2024
A NASA committee concluded there is no way to continue operating the Chandra X-ray Observatory at the reduced funding level proposed by NASA in its 2025 budget proposal.
VIPER Clears Acoustic Tests as Scientists Question Proposed Cancellation
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Jul 2024
NASA’s VIPER lunar rover completed acoustic testing today just a week after NASA announced its intent to terminate the mission because of cost growth. Congress will have the last word
NASA Releases First Integrated Ranking of Civil Space Challenges
NASA · 23 Jul 2024
This spring, NASA published a document overviewing almost 200 technology areas requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs – and asked the aerospace community to rate their...
NASA, Boeing to Discuss Crew Flight Test Mission, Ground Testing
NASA · 23 Jul 2024
Leadership from NASA and Boeing will participate in a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 25, to provide the latest status of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission aboard the International Space...
NASA Sponsors New Research on Orbital Debris, Lunar Sustainability
NASA · 23 Jul 2024
As part of NASA’s commitment to foster responsible exploration of the universe for the benefit of humanity, the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS) is funding space sustainability research proposals from fi...
Astronaut Eileen Collins, NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander
NASA · 23 Jul 2024
Astronaut Eileen Collins, STS-93 commander, looks through a checklist on the space shuttle Columbia’s middeck in this July 1999 image. Collins was the first female shuttle commander. Collins graduated in 1979 from Air Fo...
25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity
NASA · 23 Jul 2024
By Rick Smith “The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA thermal analyst Jodi Turk. In the case of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, marking its 25th anniversary in space this year...
Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator
NASA · 23 Jul 2024
NASA’s X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term “sustainable” to heart by reusing an old MD-90 cockpit as a base for its new X-66 simulator. When airplanes are ret...
NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch for U.S. Navy Fleet Training
NASA · 23 Jul 2024
A rocket-propelled target is scheduled for launch July 27-28, 2024 from NASA’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in support of a U.S. Navy Fleet Training exercise. No real-time launch status updates...
NASA’s 21st Northrop Grumman Mission Launches Scientific Studies to Station
NASA · 23 Jul 2024
NASA and its international partners are sending scientific investigations to the International Space Station on Northrop Grumman’s 21st commercial resupply services mission. Flying aboard the company’s Cygnus spacecraft...
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for NOAA’s JPSS-4 Mission
NASA · 22 Jul 2024
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) to provide launch services for NOAA’s JPSS-4 mission. The spacecraft is part...
NASA Rocket Discovers New Energization Process in Upper Atmosphere
NASA · 22 Jul 2024
When it comes to discoveries about our upper atmosphere, it pays to know your surroundings. Using data from the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) rocket launch, NASA scientist Francesca Di Mare a...
Chandra Sees the Peacock’s Galaxy
NASA · 22 Jul 2024
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory launch, the Chandra team released this never-seen-before image of NGC 6872, a spiral galaxy in the Pavo (Peacock) constellation, on July 22, 2024. T...
Seed Funding Proposals Due November 19 This Year!
NASA · 22 Jul 2024
Since 2020, NASA’s Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) has launched 24 new projects to expand citizen science in professional research. This year, proposals are due by November 19, 2024, with optional Notices of...
25 Images to Celebrate NASA’s Chandra 25th Anniversary
NASA · 22 Jul 2024
This montage contains 25 new images with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory that is being released to commemorate the telescope’s 25th anniversary in space, as described in our latest press release. Since its lau...
Ground Antenna Trio to Give NASA’s Artemis Campaign ‘LEGS’ to Stand On
NASA · 22 Jul 2024
Main Takeaways: Background: NASA’s LEGS can do more than help Earthlings move about the planet. Three Lunar Exploration Ground Sites, or LEGS, will enhance the Near Space Network’s communications services and support of...
Artemis II’s Core Stage Heads to Florida
Space Scout · 22 Jul 2024
The second SLS core stage, or CS-2, is now aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge following its rollout from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, paving the way for the first flight of crew to the moon in over 50 years.
NASA Research Volunteers to Begin Next Simulated Mission to Mars
NASA · 22 Jul 2024
NASA selected a new team of four research volunteers to participate in a simulated mission to Mars within HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Erin Anderson, Sergii Ia...
Senate appropriators say spending bill includes NASA increase
SpaceNews · 22 Jul 2024
The leaders of a Senate appropriations subcommittee say they will increase NASA’s budget and protect the Artemis lunar exploration campaign in an upcoming spending bill even as another senator criticized a “wrongheaded”...
LIVE: NASA is with you from Oshkosh
NASA · 22 Jul 2024
NASA Aeronautics Returns to Oshkosh Sunday, July 21 at 8:30 p.m. EDT NASA will appear at Oshkosh with a full slate of interactive exhibits, informative activities, and fascinating people to meet. But if you can’t make it...
Curiosity discovers pure sulfur rocks, continues to explore Mount Sharp on Mars
NASASpaceflight · 21 Jul 2024
On May 30, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, currently exploring Gale Crater on the red planet, drove over a small rock on the Martian surface. The rock cracked open while driving over the rock, revealing its interior composi...
Nelson: Apollo 11 United the Country in 1969, Artemis Will Too
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 20 Jul 2024
In marking today’s 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson expressed hope that the space program can unite the country again as it
NASA SLS Core Stage headed to KSC for Artemis II
NASASpaceflight · 20 Jul 2024
Prime contractor Boeing rolled out the second Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage on July 16 from the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) and secured it to NASA’s Pegasus barge for transportation to the Kennedy Space Center...
NASA to Host Panels, Forums, and More at Oshkosh 2024
NASA · 19 Jul 2024
Each summer, aviation enthusiasts and experts from around the planet – including NASA’s aeronautical innovators – descend into a regional airport near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to attend the Experimental Aviation Association’s...
Exploring the Moon: Episode Previews
NASA · 19 Jul 2024
Discover. Learn. Explore. NASA’s video series, Exploring the Moon, takes a “behind-the-scenes” look at humanity’s next steps on the Moon. Here is your first look at some of the key moments from the upcoming series! Scrol...
I am Artemis: John Campbell
NASA · 19 Jul 2024
How do you move NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s massive 212-foot-long core stage across the country? You do it with a 300-foot-long barge. However, NASA’s Pegasus barge isn’t just any barge. It’s a vessel with...
NASA’s Juno Mission Captures the Colorful and Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter
NASA · 19 Jul 2024
During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet’s northern hemisphere. It provides a detailed view of chaotic clouds and cyclonic storm...
NASA-Funded Studies Explain How Climate Is Changing Earth’s Rotation
NASA · 19 Jul 2024
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days. Days on Earth are growing slightly longer, and tha...
NASA-Funded Studies Explain How Climate Is Changing Earth’s Rotation
Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 19 Jul 2024
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days.
NASA Awards Launch Excitement for STEM Learning Nationwide
NASA · 19 Jul 2024
NASA awards inspire the next generation of explorers by helping community institutions like museums, science centers, libraries, and other informal education institutions and their partners bring science, technology,
NASA Sets Briefings for Crew-9 Mission to Space Station
NASA · 19 Jul 2024
NASA will host a pair of news conferences Friday, July 26, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. NASA will host a mission overv...