Establishing a New Habitability Metric for Future Astrobiology Surveys

The search for exoplanets has grown immensely in recent decades thanks to next-generation observatories and instruments.…

Astronomers Solve the Mystery of the Famed Brown Dwarf That is Too Bright: It’s Twins!

In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a…

The Artemis Astronauts are Getting New Spacesuits With Some Help From Prada

The Artemis program involves impressive technological advancements in robotics, communications, spacecraft, and advanced habitats, all of…

NASA Terminal Transmits First Laser Communications Uplink to Space 

NASA’s LCOT (Low-Cost Optical Terminal), a ground station made of modified commercial hardware, transmitted its first…

NASA’s C-130 Aircraft En Route to India in Support of NISAR Mission

NASA’s globetrotting C-130 Hercules team is carrying out a cargo transport mission to Bengaluru, India, in…

NASA Pilots Add Perspective to Research

NASA research pilots are experts on how to achieve the right flight-test conditions for experiments and…

Imagining the Future – NASA

An unidentified illustration of NASA’s space shuttle. The space shuttle fleet flew 135 missions and helped…

What does it mean to “look” at a black hole?

A simulation of a black hole Hotaka Shiokawa/EHT General relativity teaches us that reality is, in…

VAST focus of future space frequencies

This precisely engineered hardware is not itself designed for space, but instead will serve as a…

NASA’s SpaceX 31st Resupply Mission to Launch Experiments to Station

NASA and its international partners are launching scientific investigations on SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply services mission…