Eight CubeSats lift off for NASA on Firefly Aerospace rocket

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket leaves a glowing trail above the skies of Vandenberg Space Force Base…

CubeSat Propulsion Technologies are Taking Off

CubeSats are becoming ever more popular, with around 2,400 total launched so far. However, the small…

EarthCARE offers a sneak peek into Earth’s energy balance

Equipped with four state-of-the-art instruments, EarthCARE makes a range of different measurements that together provide unique…

Repurposed technology used to probe new regions of Mars’ atmosphere

Orbital configuration of Mars express (red) and trace gas orbiter (blue) during a typical mutual radio…

NASA Science Activation Teams Present at National Rural STEM Summit

NASA Science Activation (SciAct) teams participated in the National Rural STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics)…

Webb captures a staggering quasar-galaxy merger in the remote universe

Map of the line emission of hydrogen (in red and blue) and oxygen (in green) in…

Swarms of Orbiting Sensors Could Map An Asteroid’s Surface

It seems like every month, a new story appears announcing the discovery of thousands of new…

Webb admires bejeweled ring of the lensed quasar RX J1131-1231

A small image of a galaxy distorted by gravitational lensing into a dim ring. At the…

Getting a good look at what’s out there

From taking hundreds of thousands of photos of Mars to scanning the skies for asteroids, humanity…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completes 20th close approach to the sun

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 20th close approach to the sun…