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27/09/2023

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Lands in the Utah Desert

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

15/09/2023

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Launches to International Space Station
The Crew-7 mission enables NASA to maximize use of the space station, where astronauts testing technologies, performing science, and developing the skills needed to operate future commercial destinations in low Earth orbit and explore farther from Earth.

06/09/2023

Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin conduct a six-hour and 25-minute spacewalk in their Orlan spacesuits to transfer a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module for future installation. The duo is pictured tethered to the Rassvet module with the Soyuz MS-22 crew ship docked at top.

16/08/2023

Starling Takes Flight

On July 17, 2023, NASA’s four Starling CubeSats successfully deployed after having launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket, shown in this image.

08/08/2023

NASA Airs Coverage of Space Station Research, Development Conference
NASA will highlight groundbreaking discoveries, benefits for humanity, and how the agency and its commercial and international partners are maximizing research and development aboard the International Space Station at the 12th annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference.

31/07/2023

XRISM Mission To Study ‘Rainbow’ of X-raysv
“Resolve will give us a new look into some of the universe’s most energetic objects, including black holes, clusters of galaxies, and the aftermath of stellar explosions,” said Richard Kelley, NASA’s XRISM principal investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “We’ll learn more about how they behave and what they’re made of using the data the mission collects after launch.”

22/07/2023

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sees Mars in a New Light
In its first 400 days on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found a diverse collection of organics – carbon-based molecules considered the building blocks of life – thanks to SHERLOC, an innovative instrument on the rover’s robotic arm. Scientists with the mission, which is searching for evidence that the planet supported microbial life billions of years ago, aren’t sure whether biological or geological sources formed the molecules, but they’re intrigued.

15/07/2023

NASA to Provide Coverage for Launch of ESA ‘Dark Universe’ Mission
Liftoff will be from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA is contributing to the Euclid mission by delivering critical hardware for one of the spacecraft’s instruments, providing science team funding, and establishing a U.S.-based Euclid data processing center. Experts from NASA who are participating in Euclid are available for interviews upon request

11/07/2023

NASA Invites Media to Cover Asteroid Sample Return, Logistics Call

03/07/2023

On June 25, 2023, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turned to famed ringed world Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet. The initial imagery from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) is already fascinating researchers.

12/06/2023

NASA to Discuss Science on Next SpaceX Cargo Launch to Space Station
Cargo resupply from U.S. companies ensures a national capability to deliver critical hardware and science research to the space station, significantly increasing the ability of NASA to conduct new investigations at the orbital outpost. Other U.S. government agencies, private industry, and academic and research institutions also can conduct microgravity research through NASA’s partnership with the International Space Station National Laboratory.

Now in its third decade of operations, the space station continues to advance scientific knowledge in Earth, space, physical, and biological sciences for the benefit of people living on our home planet. The station also is the world’s leading laboratory where researchers conduct cutting-edge research and technology development that will enable human and robotic exploration of destinations beyond low Earth orbit, including the Moon and Mars

07/06/2023

Dozens of Observatories Collected Data During Parker Solar Probe’s 15th Close Encounter .
arker Solar Probe was developed as part of NASA’s Living with a Star program to explore aspects of the Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. The Living with a Star program is managed by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. APL designed, built, manages, and operates the spacecraft

01/06/2023

Schulz was awarded a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal by Administrator Nelson at an “Our Blue Planet” concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Snoopy rode along as the zero-gravity indicator on NASA’s Artemis I mission as part of a partnership with the agency.

12/04/2023

During the Mars Perseverance engineering and technology overview on chief engineer Adam Steltzner displays a rover wheel.

02/03/2023

or years it was believed that Earth was the only planet in our solar system with liquid water. More recently, NASA revealed its strongest evidence yet that there is intermittent running water on Mars, too!

21/02/2023

A New Ring System Discovered in Our Solar System.
Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System. The ring system orbits much further out than is typical for other ring systems.

07/02/2023

New Mars photo reveals scars from Red Planet's ancient past. The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft captured a stunning new view of the Red Planet's complex surface geology.

20/01/2023

There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand in the world. There are 10 times more stars in the night sky than grains of sand on the Earth, with 70 sextillion stars being visible from Earth through a telescope. To put that in numbers, 70 sextillion is this: 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

03/01/2023

SpaceX launch 1st rocket with EOS Sat-1 and 113 other satellites on Tuesday. Hubble telescope spies a swarm of stars in a cosmic beehive. Juno spacecraft recovering its memory after mind-blowing Jupiter flyby, NASA says.

12/12/2022

On flight day 20 of the Artemis I mission, Orion captured the Moon on the day of return powered flyby, the final major engine maneuver of the flight test.

05/12/2022

On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission,, the Orion spacecraft’s optical navigation camera captured black-and-white images of craters on the Moon below.

25/11/2022

The fifth day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon as it continued to grow nearer to our lunar neighbor.

19/11/2022

During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet.

09/11/2022

While observing the outer region of the Milky Way galaxy, our Spitzer Telescope captured this infrared image of a cloud of gas and dust that looks like the hollowed-out pumpkins we see every Halloween.

26/09/2022

Expedition 67 Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos will be at the controls of the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft flanked by fellow cosmonauts Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov for their undocking from the station’s Prichal module at 3:34 am. The trio will head for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan more.

17/08/2022

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket headed back to the launch pad Tuesday night (Aug. 19) to take a step closer to a landmark lunar mission.

Artemis 1 is an uncrewed test flight of the huge Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and its Orion spacecraft, and it began the rollout to a Kennedy Space Center launch pad at about 10 p.m. EDT (0200 GMT Wednesday, Aug. 17).

The Orion, stacked atop the rocket, began moving from the KSC's Vehicle Assembly Building for a journey that will take as long as 11 hours. The crawler carrying the Artemis 1 hardware must make a journey to Launch Pad 39B at roughly 1 to 2 miles an hour (1.6 to 3.2 km/h).

13/07/2022

A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter.[1][2] The word is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. Galaxies range in size from dwarfs with just a few hundred million (108) stars, to the largest galaxies known - supergiants with one hundred trillion (1014) stars,[3] each orbiting its galaxy's center of mass.

25/06/2022

Hubble Space Telescope captured this massive galaxy cluster called Abell 1351 with its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys Abell 1351 lies in the constellation Ursa Major in the northern hemisphere

04/06/2022