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The latest updates from deep space missions, planetary defense, and scientific breakthroughs across the cosmos.
AsteroidsNASA’s OSIRIS-REx Completes Final Tour of Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx completed its last flyover of Bennu around 6 a.m. EDT (4 a.m. MDT) April 7 and is now slowly drifting away from the asteroid; however, the mission team will have to wait a few more days to find out how the spacecraft changed the surface of Bennu when it grabbed a sample of …
EarthProbing for Life in the Icy Crusts of Ocean Worlds
A technique for scanning Mars rocks for microscopic fossils of ancient life is also being developed to hunt for microbes in the deep ice of Enceladus, Titan, and Europa. Long before NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, one of its highest-level mission goals was already established: to seek out …
James WebbNASA’s Webb Telescope Packs Its Sunshield for a Million Mile Trip
Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year. The sunshield — a five-layer, diamond-shaped structure the size of a tennis court — was specially engineered to fold up around the two sides of the …
AsteroidsNASA’s Lucy Stretches Its Wings in Successful Solar Panel Deployment Test
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of both solar panels, the final step in checking out these critical spacecraft components in preparation for launch this fall. Once the Lucy spacecraft’s solar panels are attached and fully extended, they could cover a five-story building. Lucy, the 13th mission in NASA’s Discovery Program, requires …
ArtemisRS-25 Rocket Engines Return to Launch NASA’s Artemis Moon Missions
The rocket engine with one of the most storied histories in spaceflight, the RS-25, is returning to space for a second act – this time to send humans on the Artemis missions to explore the Moon. As the space shuttle main engine, the RS-25 has a proven record of launching 135 missions spanning over three …
ISSJoin the Crew-2 Virtual NASA Social to Experience the Second Commercial Crew Rotation Mission
Social media users are invited to register to take part in another global virtual NASA Social for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission launching on April 22 at 6:11 a.m. ET. This is the second crew rotation flight with astronauts on the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first launch with two international partners as part of the …
EarthAfter COVID-19 Delay, Delta-X Field Campaign Begins in Louisiana
Teams are headed out by land, water, and air to collect data that will be used to forecast land gain and loss in the Mississippi River Delta as a result of sea level rise. Around this time last year, scientists and researchers for Delta-X – NASA’s new investigation tasked with studying the Mississippi River Delta …
MarsNASA’s Mars Helicopter Survives First Cold Martian Night on Its Own
Making it through the frigid Martian temperatures after being deployed by NASA’s Perseverance rover is a major milestone for the small rotorcraft. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has emerged from its first night on the surface of Mars. Evening temperatures at Jezero Crater can plunge as low as minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 90 degrees …
MarsNASA’s Curiosity Team Names Martian Hill That Serves as Mission ‘Gateway’
Read this story in Spanish here. The team of scientists and engineers behind NASA’s Curiosity rover named a hill along the rover’s path on Mars in honor of a recently deceased mission scientist. A craggy hump that stretches 450 feet (120 meters) tall, “Rafael Navarro mountain” is located on Mount Sharp in northwest Gale Crater. …
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