Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2016. NASA Television will bring to viewers around the world live coverage Friday, Aug. 19, as two NASA astronauts install a new gateway for American commercial crew spacecraft at the International Space Station — a significant milestone in NASA’s work to return crew launches to U.S. soil.[Read More…]
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NASA Invites You to #SpotHubble (Video)
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2016. Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has sent back mind-blowing images that not only changed our understanding of our universe, but also changed where we see glimpses of our universe in everyday life. Hubble is more than a science spacecraft; it’s a cultural[Read More…]
Mini NASA Satellite Begins Environmental Testing
Greenbelt, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2016. Construction of NASA’s Dellingr CubeSat – a miniature satellite that provides a low-cost platform for missions – is complete, and the satellite has just left the lab for environmental testing. This is a key step after any satellite has been built to make sure it can[Read More…]
Look Up! Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks August 11-12 (Video)
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2016. Make plans now to stay up late or set the alarm early this week to see a cosmic display of “shooting stars” light up the night sky. Known for it’s fast and bright meteors, the annual Perseid meteor shower is anticipated to be one of the[Read More…]
NASA Rover Game Released for Curiosity’s Anniversary (Video)
CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2016. As Curiosity marks its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since landing on Mars, the rover is working on collecting its 17th sample. While Curiosity explores Mars, gamers can join the fun via a new social media game, Mars Rover. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover began close-up investigation of[Read More…]
Decades of Discovery: NASA’s Exploration of Jupiter
Greenbelt, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 5, 2016. Launched five years ago on Aug. 5, 2011, NASA’s Juno mission maneuvered into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, joining a long tradition of discovery at the gas giant. One of the brightest objects in the night sky, Jupiter has enthralled humans since ancient times.[Read More…]
NASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid (Video)
MARYLAND–(ENEWSPF)–July 25, 2016. OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu to harvest a sample of surface maNASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu to harvest[Read More…]
NASA’s Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission
Artist concept. A crop of more than 100 planets, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, includes four in Earth’s size-range orbiting a single dwarf star. Two of these planets are too hot to support life as we know it, but two are in the star’s “habitable” zone, where liquid water[Read More…]
NASA Sends Trailblazing Science, Cargo to International Space Station Aboard SpaceX Resupply Mission
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft launched at 12:45 a.m. EDT on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with almost 5,000 pounds of cargo. Credits: NASA/Tony Gray FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. Instruments to perform the first-ever DNA sequencing in space, and the[Read More…]
‘Frankenstein’ Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
At left, in optical light, UGC 1382 appears to be a simple elliptical galaxy. But spiral arms emerged when astronomers incorporated ultraviolet and deep optical data (middle). Combining that with a view of low-density hydrogen gas (shown in green at right), scientists discovered that UGC 1382 is gigantic. Credits: NASA/JPL/Caltech/SDSS/NRAO/L.[Read More…]
