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The latest updates from deep space missions, planetary defense, and scientific breakthroughs across the cosmos.
AsteroidsNASA Radar Spots Relatively Large Asteroid Prior to Flyby
This movie of asteroid 2014 JO25 was generated using radar data collected by NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar in California’s Mojave Desert. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR Radar images of asteroid 2014 JO25 were obtained in the early morning hours on Tuesday, with NASA’s 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California. The images …
AsteroidsNASA Team Explores Using LISA Pathfinder as ‘Comet Crumb’ Detector
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA, has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Now a team of NASA scientists hopes to take advantage of the spacecraft’s record-breaking sensitivity to map out the distribution of …
AsteroidsAsteroid to Fly Safely Past Earth on April 19
A relatively large near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will …
ISSNASA’s New Spectrometer to Help Future Crews Cope with Cosmic Radiation
One of the main health concerns of living and working in space is the long-term exposure to high levels of radiation. NASA scientists have developed a new device to monitor radiation exposure to neutrons and are testing it on the International Space Station. Launched on the fifth Orbital ATK resupply mission to the station, the …
The SunNASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Captured Trio of Solar Flares April 2-3
The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. The first peaked at 4:02 a.m. EDT on April 2, the second peaked at 4:33 p.m. EDT on April 2, and the third peaked at 10:29 a.m. EDT on April 3. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images …
Deep SpaceNew Horizons Halfway from Pluto to Next Flyby Target
How time and our spacecraft fly – especially when you’re making history at 32,000 miles (51,500 kilometers) per hour. Continuing on its path through the outer regions of the solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has now traveled half the distance from Pluto – its storied first target – to 2014 MU69, the Kuiper Belt object …
Deep SpaceComet That Took a Century to Confirm Passes by Earth
On April 1, 2017, comet 41P will pass closer than it normally does to Earth, giving observers with binoculars or a telescope a special viewing opportunity. Comet hunters in the Northern Hemisphere should look for it near the constellations Draco and Ursa Major, which the Big Dipper is part of. Whether a comet will put …
EarthCelebrating 17 Years of NASA’s ‘Little Earth Satellite That Could’
The satellite was little (the size of a small refrigerator), only supposed to last one year and constructed and operated on a shoestring budget — yet it persevered. After 17 years of operation, with more than 1,500 research papers generated and more than 92,000 images captured from each of its imagers, the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) …
James WebbAn Inside Look at NASA’s Webb Telescope Art Exhibit
The Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Likewise, we can get people to care about science and technology by conveying the wonder …
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