Nasa's lucy spacecraft discovers age of first asteroid target

NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey ... compared to the age of our 4.5-billion-year-old solar system). "This could tell us something fundamental about the ... Read More

NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down surface ages of 1st asteroid targets

Last November, when NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official asteroid target named Dinkinesh ... Speaking at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LSPC) in Texas, they said ... Read More

Rocket Lab launches NASA's solar sail technology into orbit

Rocket Lab's Electron launched NASA's new composite solar sail into space where it will undergo weeks of testing, using sunlight to propel it through the solar system. Read More

NASA Probe's Daring Flight Through Sun's Eruption Sheds Light on Solar Storms

NASA’s solar probe captured a coronal mass ejection (CME), an explosive outburst of high energy radiation, in unprecedented detail. As the probe flew through a powerful CME for the first time ... Read More

Imaging turbulence within solar transients for the first time

The Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) Science Team ... This is a first-of-its-kind observation of this unique phenomenon in the solar corona. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/NRL ... Read More

NASA Crashed a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid and There Could Be Some Consequences

Luckily, NASA had the same idea. Which is why, in September of 2022, the space agency smashed a spacecraft ... Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which was our species’ first ... Read More

NASA looking for ‘citizen scientists’ to photograph solar eclipse to help map the sun

NASA has teamed up with Western Kentucky University to develop an app to track April’s solar eclipse on a cell phone — and they are looking for “citizen scientists” to snap photos of the ... Read More

NASA spacecraft snaps mysterious 'surfboard' orbiting the moon. What is it?

NASA's lunar ... short exposure time of about 0.338 milliseconds, making the event difficult to capture. However, it still managed to get photos of Danuri, the first Korean spacecraft to enter ... Read More

'Nasa's upcoming mission: Sounding rockets to probe Moon's shadow during solar eclipse'

NASA plans to launch sounding rockets into the Moon's shadow during an upcoming solar eclipse, offering researchers a rare chance to study how eclipses impact our atmosphere. The focus is on ... Read More

NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon

NASA SHARE What time is it on the moon ... Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTB), explained in yesterday ... Read More

NASA spacecraft snaps mysterious 'surfboard' orbiting the moon. What is it?

NASA's lunar orbiter has captured images of a surfboard-shaped object zooming past the moon. The close encounter wasn't a UFO or an alien megastructure. Rather, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ... Read More