2019-03-05 13:00
Crew Dragon is designed to transport up to four astronauts for NASA missions, along with critical cargo and supplies, to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Pro… Read More
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2019-03-04 13:00
Countdown and liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon onboard on Demo-1, the first uncrewed flight test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Launch was at 2:49 a.m. ES… Read More
2019-02-28 13:00
New research from the up-close Grand Finale orbits of NASA's Cassini mission shows a surprisingly powerful interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its moon Enceladus. Researchers c… Read More
2019-02-27 13:00
New Horizons scientists created this movie from 14 different images taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) shortly before the spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt… Read More
2019-02-26 13:00
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has already descended from Vera Rubin Ridge, a region of Mount Sharp that it has been exploring for more than a year. But before it left, the rover took a 360-deg… Read More
2019-02-25 13:00
Although it's hard to say goodbye, this record-breaking, discovery-making, marathon-driving mission has paved the way for future exploration and discovery of the Red Planet.
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2019-02-21 13:00
A NASA F/A-18 performs the quiet supersonic dive maneuver of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. The dive include climbing to 50,000 feet, followed by a supersonic, invert… Read More
2019-02-20 13:00
Just 114 miles from the newly-found Hiawatha impact crater under the ice of northwest Greenland, lies a possible second impact crater. The 22-mile wide feature would be the second crater fou… Read More
2019-02-19 13:00
Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, and nicknamed "Oppy", is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 to 2018. With a planned 90-sol durati… Read More
2019-02-14 13:00
he Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeede… Read More
2019-02-13 13:00
NROL designate satellites operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office.
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2019-02-12 13:00
Year 2018 was the fourth hottest year in the modern record, part of a decades-long trend of warming. The record dates back to 1880, when it became possible to collect consistent, reliable te… Read More
2019-02-11 13:00
The animation depicts a shape model of Ultima Thule created by the New Horizons science team based on its analysis of all the pre-flyby images sent to Earth so far. The first half of the mov… Read More
2019-02-07 13:00
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launched aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to inspect the dynamic intermingling of space an… Read More
2019-02-06 13:00
One small box of technology is getting NASA one step closer to future exploration missions. The Robotic Refueling Mission 3, or RRM3, will prove technologies to transfer and store common con… Read More
2019-02-05 13:00
A new NASA-led study has determined that an increase in snowfall accumulation over Antarctica during the 20th century mitigated sea level rise by 0.4 inches.
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2019-02-04 13:00
Scientists have mapped the environment surrounding a black hole that is 10 times the mass of the Sun using NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) payload aboard the Intern… Read More
2019-01-25 13:00
A planetary system is a set of gravitationally bound non-stellar objects in or out of orbit around a star or star system. Generally speaking, systems with one or more planets constitute a pl… Read More
2019-01-24 13:00
Because of the Moon's lack of water, atmosphere, and tectonic plates, there is little erosion, and craters are found that exceed two billion years in age. The age of large craters is determi… Read More
2019-01-22 13:00
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the C… Read More
2019-01-21 13:00
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a provider of spacecraft launch services to the United States government. It was formed as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing De… Read More
2019-01-18 13:00
The Mars 2020 rover mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The Mars 2020 mission addresses high-priority science goa… Read More
2019-01-17 13:00
Rocket Lab is a private American aerospace manufacturer and smallsat launcher with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. It has developed a suborbital sounding rocket named Ātea and cu… Read More
2019-01-16 13:00
101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object th… Read More
2019-01-15 13:00
Northrop Grumman completed the second qualification test for the launch abort motor for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft. The motor fired for 5 seconds with a force of just under 370,000 pounds… Read More
2019-01-14 13:00
The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American Space Shuttle-derived super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle. It is part of NASA's deep space exploration plans including a crewed mission to… Read More
2019-01-11 13:00
Scientists from NASA Goddard have discovered that not only are Saturn's rings younger than previously thought, but also that the rings are actually disappearing at a rapid pace through a pro… Read More
2019-01-10 13:00
the GPM satellite found extreme rainfall in Kenanga's well-defined circular eyewall. Heaviest rainfall was found by GPM in the tropical cyclone's southeastern quadrant, falling at a rate of… Read More
2019-01-09 13:00
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and private industry partners, Boeing and SpaceX, will make history in 2019 with the return of human spaceflight launches to the International Space Stat… Read More
2019-01-08 13:00
NASA’s InSight has been busy. After landing on the Red Planet, the mission sent home pictures and sound, then placed its first instrument on the planet's surface. Plus, find out what t… Read More
2019-01-07 13:00
This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2019, as viewed from both Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addit… Read More
2018-11-30 13:00
Human spaceflight, some consider the ultimate test. There is only one chance to do it right, no room for error. To prepare for this challenge, we expose the system to the same environments a… Read More
2018-11-29 13:00
Europe's Vega launch vehicle operating from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has a flawless record. Vega serves a wide range of missions and payload configurations, responding to… Read More
2018-11-28 13:00
Since the very first module Zarya launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 20 November 1998, the International Space Station has delivered a whole new perspective on this planet we call home. Jo… Read More
2018-11-27 13:00
Timelapse of the Russian Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft launched on 16 November 2018 at 18:14 GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the Inter… Read More
2018-11-26 13:00
InSight is a robotic lander designed to study the interior of the planet Mars. The mission launched on 5 May 2018 and is expected to land on the surface of Mars at Elysium Planitia on 26 Nov… Read More
2018-11-23 13:00
We are NASA – and after 60 years, we're just getting started!
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2018-11-21 13:00
In a remote area of northwest Greenland, an international team of scientists has made a stunning discovery, buried beneath a kilometer of ice. It's a meteor impact crater, 300 meters deep an… Read More
2018-11-20 13:00
InSight is a robotic lander designed to study the interior of the planet Mars. The mission launched on 5 May 2018 and is expected to land on the surface of Mars at Elysium Planitia on 26 Nov… Read More
2018-11-19 13:00
Progress MS-10, identified by NASA as Progress 71 or 71P, is a Progress spacecraft used by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). Progress MS-10 launched atop a Soyuz-F… Read More
2018-11-16 13:00
ESA's future Lagrange mission will keep constant watch on the Sun. The satellite, located at the fifth Lagrange point, will send early warning of potentially harmful solar activity before it… Read More
2018-11-15 13:00
EPIC has been imaging the sunlit side of Earth between 13 and 22 times a day since 2015. Now, scientists have developed ways to use these images to study specific elements of our home planet… Read More
2018-11-14 13:00
NASA's new laser instrument, the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, or GEDI, has advanced laser technology that will reveal the makeup of remote forest ecosystems around the globe. GED… Read More
2018-11-12 13:00
Rocket Lab is a private American aerospace manufacturer and smallsat launcher with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. It has developed a suborbital sounding rocket named Ātea and cu… Read More
2018-11-09 13:00
This is an incredible aerial view of NASA's Recovery Team and the US Navy practicing recovering a test version of the Orion crew capsule after it splashes down.
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2018-11-08 13:00
Understanding how comet dust behaves in the tail -- how it fragments and clumps together -- can teach scientists a great deal about similar processes that formed dust into asteroids, moons a… Read More
2018-11-07 13:00
Every year, the ozone hole over Antarctica reaches an annual maximum extent during southern winter. The depletion of ozone by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) happens faster at colder temperatures… Read More
2018-11-06 13:00
The space industry demands the most rigorous vibration testing in the world. The first two minutes of a satellite's space flight are the toughest, as it experiences the extreme vibration of… Read More
2018-11-05 13:00
Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) is a series of communications satellites operated by the United States Air Force Space Command. They will be used to relay secure communications for… Read More
2018-11-02 13:00
About a year ago, astronomers excitedly reported the first detection of electromagnetic waves, or light, from a gravitational wave source. Now, a year later, researchers are announcing the e… Read More
2018-11-01 13:00
Operation IceBridge is NASA's longest-running aerial survey of polar ice. During the survey, designed to assess changes in the ice height of several glaciers draining into the Larsen A, B an… Read More
2018-10-31 13:00
The European Space Agency demonstrates its commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through the activities promoted by its ten directorates. Satellite data and space ap… Read More
2018-10-30 13:00
Less than 2 minutes after the launch of a 58-foot-tall (17.7-meter) Black Brant IX sounding rocket, a payload separated and began its dive back through Earth's atmosphere. When onboard senso… Read More
2018-10-29 13:00
NASA's GPM Core Observatory satellite captured an image of Super Typhoon Yutu when it flew over the powerful storm just as the center was striking the central Northern Mariana Islands north… Read More
2018-10-26 13:00
The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital crewed rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital s… Read More
2018-10-25 13:00
As of October 2016, all methods of landing on Mars have required an aeroshell and parachute sequence for Mars atmospheric entry and descent, but after that there are three choices. A station… Read More
2018-10-24 13:00
This visualization uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from global elevation maps and image mosaics by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. It was created to accompany a perfor… Read More
2018-10-23 13:00
The Dawn mission was designed to study two large bodies in the asteroid belt in order to answer questions about the formation of the Solar System, as well as to test the performance of its i… Read More
2018-10-22 13:00
The stacked spacecraft will take seven years to position itself to enter Mercury orbit. During this time it will use solar-electric propulsion and nine gravity assists, flying past the Earth… Read More
2018-10-19 13:00
Atlas does parkour. The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without brea… Read More
2018-10-18 13:00
Scientists studying what amounts to a computer-simulated "pulsar in a box" are gaining a more detailed understanding of the complex, high-energy environment around spinning neutron stars, al… Read More
2018-10-17 13:00
Working from a combination of satellite records and declassified submarine sonar data, NASA scientists have constructed a 60-year record of Arctic sea ice thickness. Right now, Arctic sea ic… Read More
2018-10-16 13:00
United Launch Alliance will use an Atlas V 551 rocket to launch the fourth communications satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) series for the U.S. Air Force. The launch… Read More
2018-10-15 13:00
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin are in good condition following an aborted launch of their Soyuz spacecraft.
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2018-10-12 13:00
A new model is bringing scientists a step closer to understanding the kinds of light signals produced when two supermassive black holes, which are millions to billions of times the mass of t… Read More
2018-10-11 13:00
Using NASA's Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. Th… Read More
2018-10-10 13:00
Two days before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the NASA-Japan Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite captured a 3-D view of the storm. At the time Maria was a C… Read More
2018-10-09 13:00
When a small Solar System body such as a moon or an asteroid passes in front of a star and temporarily blocks its light, the occultation is an extraordinary chance for astronomers to study t… Read More
2018-10-05 13:00
Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European… Read More
2018-10-04 13:00
A safe and secure space environment is a requirement for all current and future space activities. Analyses performed by ESA and NASA indicate that the only means of sustaining the orbital en… Read More
2018-10-03 13:00
With the 1979 beginning of the NASA Orbital Debris Program the term space debris also includes the debris from the mass of defunct, artificially created objects in space, most notably in Ear… Read More
2018-10-02 13:00
Rosetta launched in 2004 and travelled for ten years to its destination before deploying the lander Philae to the comet's surface. Following the comet along its orbit around the Sun, Rosetta… Read More
2018-10-01 13:00
The BE-4 is Blue Origin's fourth-generation liquid rocket engine. The BE-4 uses oxygen-rich staged combustion of liquid oxygen and liquefied natural gas to produce 550,000 lbs. of thrust. Li… Read More
2018-09-28 17:00
The complexity of aerospace systems is increasing exponentially. Both hardware and software subsystems are becoming more complex and encompassing systems' behaviour becomes difficult to mode… Read More
2018-09-28 13:00
The 700 tonne steel table that will support Ariane 6 at liftoff was transferred to the pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 10 September 2018. It is so large that it arrived in part… Read More
2018-09-27 13:00
At the end of 2019 Vega-C will be launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana increasing performance from Vega's current 1.5 t to about 2.2 t in its reference 700 km polar orbit, with… Read More
2018-09-26 13:00
Northrop Grumman Corporation conducted its first ground test of a 63-inch diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM 63) today in Promontory, Utah. Utilizing advanced technologies, the company devel… Read More
2018-09-25 13:00
On the cusp of our atmosphere live a thin group of seasonal electric blue clouds. Forming 50 miles above the poles in summer, these clouds are known as noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheri… Read More
2018-09-24 13:00
ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2), part of NASA's Earth Observing System, is a satellite mission for measuring ice sheet elevation and sea ice thickness, as well as land… Read More
2018-09-21 17:00
Journalists present their findings about fraudulent pseudo-academic conferences and journals. There are fake science factories that are cashing in on millions of dollars every year, while gi… Read More
2018-09-21 13:00
Low frequency sounds of the Sun explained by NASA heliophysicist Alex Young.
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2018-09-20 13:00
Clean technology refers to any process, product, or service that reduces negative environmental impacts through significant energy efficiency improvements, the sustainable use of resources… Read More
2018-09-19 13:00
A combination of lightning, drought, and human activity caused fires to scorch more than one-third of Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 1988. Within a year, burn scars cast a sharp… Read More
2018-09-18 13:00
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying launch NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air For… Read More
2018-09-17 13:00
Hurricane Florence is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the Carolinas and the ninth wettest tropical cyclone to affect the contiguous United States. The sixth named storm, third hurr… Read More
2018-09-13 13:00
NASA's Dawn spacecraft turned science fiction into science fact by using ion propulsion to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. The mission will end thi… Read More
2018-09-12 13:00
ICESat-2 will provide scientists with height measurements that create a global portrait of Earth's third dimension, gathering data that can precisely track changes of terrain including glaci… Read More
2018-09-11 13:00
Watch in 360 degrees as an United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying NASA's Parker Solar Pro… Read More
2018-09-10 13:00
NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on August 9, 2018, producing a 360-degree panorama of its current location on Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge. The panorama includes skies darkened by… Read More
2018-09-07 13:00
Volcanic activity, or volcanism, has played a significant role in the geologic evolution of Mars. Scientists have known since the Mariner 9 mission in 1972 that volcanic features cover large… Read More
2018-09-06 13:00
The Dragon spacecraft was released from the Station's robotic arm at 18:38 GMT on 3 August 2018. Thrusters fired to increase its distance from the Space Station and the spacecraft started it… Read More
2018-09-05 13:00
The Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) is a satellite designed to investigate changes in the Earth's ionosphere. It is scheduled to be launched aboard a Pegasus XL rocket as part of NASA… Read More
2018-09-04 13:00
On August 4th 2018 Copenhagen Suborbitals successfully launched the Nexø II rocket. Nexø II is Copenhagen Suborbitals most advanced rocket to date. In this video we show you th… Read More
2018-08-31 13:00
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission launched in 2016 and now (August, 2018) is entering its approach phase. OSIRIS-REx will arrive at asteroid Bennu in December, 2018. OSIRIS-RE… Read More
2018-08-30 13:00
Cameras on the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Lane churning in the Pacific Ocean August 22 as it flew 254 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands at 12:47 p.m. EDT. At t… Read More
2018-08-29 13:00
Nexø II rocket launch.
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2018-08-28 13:00
ESA's Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite lifted off on a Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 21:20 GMT (23:20 CEST, 18:20 local time) on 22 August 2018. Aeolus carr… Read More
2018-08-24 13:00
Orbital debris poses a risk to all spacecraft in Earth orbit, so the International Space Station is getting a new debris impact sensor to provide information on the micrometeoroid orbital de… Read More
2018-08-23 13:00
For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic's permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth's climate continues to warm, that carbon has begun… Read More
2018-08-22 13:00
The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is one of the instruments aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The GBM studies gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, as wel… Read More
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