Tag: NASA
NASA to Announce Major Eco-Friendly Aviation Project Update
NASA is holding a news conference on Wednesday, January 18th to announce its next steps for the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. The project aims...
Highly Porous Rocks Responsible for Bennu’s Surprisingly Craggy Surface
Highly Porous Rocks Responsible for Bennu's Surprisingly Craggy Surface
Using data from NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, a University of Arizona-led team of scientists concluded...
V404 Cygni: Huge rings around a black hole
Black holes are one the universe's ultimate mysteries, hard to even imagine. But thanks to a recently released NASA image, we can visualize one...
NASA Picks SpaceX to Land Next Americans on the Moon
NASA picks Starship to land on the moon because NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part...
The Biggest Supermoon in Nearly 70 Years
Image Credit: Flickr/costachico
We’re about to see the biggest since 1948, the closest full moon in the 21st century.
If you go outside on November 14, you...
NASA missions harvest a passel of ‘pumpkin’ stars
This artist's concept illustrates how the most extreme 'pumpkin star' found by Kepler and Swift compares with the sun. Both stars are shown to...
NASA Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some targets for the laser and telescopic camera of its ChemCam instrument. For example, on-board software analyzed the...
NASA’s Kepler confirms 100+ exoplanets during its K2 mission
Image montage showing the Maunakea Observatories, Kepler Space Telescope, and night sky with K2 Fields and discovered planetary systems (dots) overlaid. An international team...
NASA camera catches moon ‘photobombing’ Earth
On July 5, 2016, the moon passed between NOAA's DSCOVR satellite and Earth. NASA's EPIC camera aboard DSCOVR snapped these images over a period...
NASA spots Tropical Cyclone 02A develop in Arabian Sea
Tropical Cyclone 02A developed in the Northern Indian Ocean's Arabian Sea as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and analyzed the storm in infrared light...
Hubble confirms new dark spot on Neptune
This new Hubble Space Telescope image confirms the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune. The full visible-light image at left...
