March’s Night Sky Notes: Constant Companions: Circumpolar Constellations, Part II

As the seasons shift from Winter to Spring, heralding in the promise of warmer weather here…

NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement Mission: 10 years, 10 stories

A NASA-based team built a new tool to examine the risk of landslides. They developed a…

Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil

This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of…

NASA Collects First Surface Science in Decades via Commercial Moon Mission

For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA was able to collect data from…

Women’s History Month: Celebrating Women Astronauts 2024

“A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without…

Can Volcanic Super Eruptions Lead to Major Cooling? Study Suggests No

New research suggests that sunlight-blocking particles from an extreme eruption would not cool surface temperatures on…

IPEx Autonomy Testing – NASA

Harsh, low-angle sunlight, long and dark shadows, and a featureless terrain will make navigation difficult when…

Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil

This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of…

Update on Status of NASA’s OSAM-1 Project

Following an in-depth, independent project review, NASA has decided to discontinue the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and…

Night-Shining Cloud Mission Ends; Yields High Science Results for NASA

Known as night-shining or noctilucent clouds, they are seen at twilight in the summer months, typically…