After speaking for the first time, Jim Bridenstine of NASA and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Rogozin,…
Author: KENNETH CHANG
Corporate Sponsors for NASA? Agency to Study Making Space for Brands
In an era of flat budgets for the agency, Jim Bridenstine has started talking about corporate…
Trilobites: NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Takes First Picture of Distant Rock It Will Visit
The mission’s scientists were pleasantly surprised that the camera aboard the robotic probe could see the…
Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said they were “converging on the truth” in an experiment…
Parker Solar Probe Launches on NASA Voyage to ‘Touch the Sun’
The spacecraft, which NASA says will “touch the sun,” was carried from the launchpad atop three…
NASA Delays Parker Solar Probe Launch
There’s a lot we don’t know about the sun and its power, and this mission will…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun.
Eugene N. Parker predicted the existence of solar wind in 1958. The NASA spacecraft is the…
79 Moons of Jupiter and Counting
The latest survey of the region around the gas giant turned up a dozen new moons,…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Creeps Up on the Ryugu Asteroid
After a journey that started in 2014, the probe will reach the space rock on Wednesday…
Asteroids and Adversaries: Challenging What NASA Knows About Space Rocks
Two years ago, NASA dismissed and mocked an amateur’s criticisms of its asteroids database. Now Nathan…