When a satellite reaches the end of its life, it has only two destinations. It can…
Could tardigrades have colonized the moon?
Just over five years ago, on 22 February 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in…
Langley Celebrates Black History Month: Alexus Cottonham
Alexus Cottonham is an aerospace engineer supporting NASA Langley’s Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate. She completed…
New Moons Found at Uranus and Neptune
Astronomers have found three new moons orbiting our Solar System’s ice giants. One is orbiting Uranus,…
FAA closes investigation into SpaceX Starship’s double-explosion 2nd flight
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As SpaceX continues to gear up for flight No. 3 of its…
Langley Celebrates Black History Month: Brandon Sells
Brandon Sells joined NASA’s Langley Research Center in September 2023 as an aerospace engineer with the…
Mars Had its Own Version of Plate Tectonics
Plate tectonics is not something most people would associate with Mars. In fact, the planet’s dead…
Exploring galaxy groups and clusters and their brightest galaxies within the cosmic web
Each coloured circle depicts a galaxy group or cluster. The richest galaxy clusters are marked in…
We look back at what made the Voyager 1 special
NASA is troubleshooting a glitch on Voyager 1, the first human-made object to leave the solar…
Langley Celebrates Black History Month: Brittny McGraw
Brittny McGraw serves as News Chief in the Office of Communications at NASA’s Langley Research Center.…