NASA Space Laser Beams Home Data From 140 Million Miles Away

The agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) equipped Psyche with a brand-new kind of laser communication array, and this instrument just aced an important milestone test. NASA reports that Psyche's ... Read More

NASA's Solar Sail Makes First Contact From Space Before Stretching Its Enormous Wings

Nearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat phoned home for the first time as it prepares to embark on its mission of sailing through low Earth orbit. Read More

The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from ... Read More

NASA spacecraft films crazy vortex while flying through sun's atmosphere

NASA's Parker Solar Probe — a craft flying much closer to the sun than any previous mission — witnessed ... SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills. Read More

Safety Issues With NASA's Moon Capsule Pose 'Significant Risks' to Artemis 2 Crew, Report Finds

As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon as part of the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, the space agency still needs to resolve a few lingering issues with its Orion capsule that could jeopardize ... Read More

NASA's CloudSat ends mission peering into the heart of clouds

CloudSat, a NASA mission that peered ... vision of clouds—not as flat images on a screen but as 3D slices of atmosphere bristling with ice and rain. For the first time, scientists could observe ... Read More

Voyager 1: NASA's longest-running spacecraft back in touch with Earth after five months of silence

NASA's longest ... send back never-seen-before information about our galaxy. Since they blasted off in 1977, they have revealed details in Saturn's rings, provided the first in-depth images ... Read More

NASA seeking help to develop a lower-cost Mars Sample Return mission

Responding to an independent review of NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission ... must be brought back to Earth. Under the initial MSR plan, a NASA retrieval rover would touch down near ... Read More

Children of the Sun Review

Children of the Sun bills itself as a tactical third-person puzzle-shooter, but not all of those descriptors are equally relevant. Discard any attachment you have to the idea of it being a ... Read More

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Navy divers use sonar images to cut through murky water during Francis Scott Key Bridge salvage efforts

The first images of the ... could only navigate by touch. The addition of the Coda Octopus represents a “new level of access and a new level of vision to move the mission forward,” Gov. Read More