A New Tool for 'Weighing' Unseen Planets

The NEID instrument will help scientists determine the density of distant planets, which can…

SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched

A new view of the Swan Nebula from SOFIA reveals that parts of it formed separately…

A waxing crescent Moon

A waxing crescent Moon is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the…

NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman’s February Space Station Launch

Media accreditation is open for the launch from Virginia of Northrop Grumman’s 13th commercial resupply services…

TESS Finds First Earth-Size Planet in the Habitable Zone

TOI 700 d is the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by TESS, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2019 Annual Report

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued…

Kangaroo Island Shows Burn Scars On One Third of the Land Mass

Kangaroo Island, off the coast of Australia, has not been immune to the devastating bushfires that…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/07/2020

No science operations; crew off-duty. Systems: SpX-19 Unberth/Release:  The SpX-19 Dragon vehicle was robotically released from…

David Content Hopes to Answer the Big Questions with WFIRST

David Content, Payload Project Manager for WFIRST, hopes to answer the question “Are We Alone?” …

NASA Planet Hunter Finds its 1st Earth-size Habitable-zone World

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable…