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The latest updates from deep space missions, planetary defense, and scientific breakthroughs across the cosmos.
ArtemisNextSTEP Partners Develop Ground Prototypes to Expand our Knowledge of Deep Space Habitats
Through exploration, NASA is broadening horizons, enhancing knowledge, and improving our way of life. Our efforts to explore and discover the universe are increasing in both scope and duration. The Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, soon will launch the Orion spacecraft and its crew deeper into space than ever before. …
MoonThe Dark Side of the Crater: How Light Looks Different on the Moon and What NASA Is Doing About It
Things look different on the Moon. Literally. Because the Moon isn’t big enough to hold a significant atmosphere, there is no air and there are no particles in the air to reflect and scatter sunlight. On Earth, shadows in otherwise bright environments are dimly lit with indirect light from these tiny reflections. That lighting provides …
MoonThe Moon is Front and Center During a Total Solar Eclipse
In the lead-up to a total solar eclipse, most of the attention is on the sun, but Earth’s moon also has a starring role. “A total eclipse is a dance with three partners: the moon, the sun and Earth,” said Richard Vondrak, a lunar scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It …
EarthNASA Looks to Solar Eclipse to Help Understand Earth’s Energy System
It was midafternoon, but it was dark in an area in Boulder, Colorado, on Aug. 3, 1998. A thick cloud appeared overhead and dimmed the land below for more than 30 minutes. Well-calibrated radiometers showed that there were very low levels of light reaching the ground, sufficiently low that researchers decided to simulate this interesting event with …
Deep SpaceNASA’s New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina
A primitive solar system object that’s more than four billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) away passed in front of a distant star as seen from Earth. Just before midnight Eastern Time Sunday (12:50 a.m. local time July 17), several telescopes deployed by the New Horizons team in a remote part of Argentina were in precisely …
ExoplanetsNASA-funded Citizen Science Project Discovers New Brown Dwarf
One night three months ago, Rosa Castro finished her dinner, opened her laptop, and uncovered a novel object that was neither planet nor star. Therapist by day and amateur astronomer by night, Castro joined the NASA-funded Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project when it began in February — not knowing she would become one …
Deep SpaceNASA Video Soars over Pluto’s Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons – amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds’ icy terrain might be like. Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest …
Deep SpaceNew Horizons Unveils New Maps of Pluto, Charon on Flyby Anniversary
On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flight through the Pluto system – providing the first close-up images of Pluto and its moons and collecting other data that has transformed our understanding of these mysterious worlds on the solar system’s outer frontier. Scientists are still analyzing and uncovering data that New …
AsteroidsAsteroid 2012 TC4 to Safely Pass Earth This October
Center for NEO Studies (CNEOS) A small asteroid designated 2012 TC4 will pass very close to Earth on Oct. 12, and even though scientists cannot yet predict exactly how close it will approach, they are certain that the asteroid will fly by at a safe distance from our planet. This asteroid has not been seen …
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