Assembly Begins on NASA’s Next Tool to Study Exoplanets
The Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study planets around other stars. Putting it together will require a highly choreographed dance....
Month : December 2022
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Sentinel-6B Mission
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6B mission....
NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Snacking on Star
Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole feeding behaviors....
NASA to Air Live Coverage of US Spacewalk for Solar Array Installation
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk on Wednesday, Dec. 21, to install a rollout solar array to increase electrical power...
40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter
Based partly on data from generations of NASA missions, including NASA’s Voyager and Cassini, the work could help scientists determine how to predict weather on...
NASA’s Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot
The 10 sample tubes being dropped on Mars’ surface so they can be studied on Earth in the future carry an amazing diversity of Red...
NASA Launches International Mission to Survey Earth’s Water
Led by NASA and the French space agency CNES, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will provide high-definition data on the salt- and fresh...
NASA, AST & Science Sign Joint Spaceflight Safety Agreement
NASA and AST & Science, a subsidiary of AST SpaceMobile, Inc., have signed a joint agreement to formalize both parties’ strong interest in the sharing...
NASA Awards Contract to Maintain Webb Telescope Operations
NASA has selected Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Redondo Beach, California, to support the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract....
Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water, NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Find
Though the telescopes can’t directly observe the planets’ surfaces, their densities indicate they’re lighter than rock worlds but heavier than gas-dominated ones....
