Early this morning, April 7, 2021, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission completed its last flyover of near-Earth asteroid…
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Packs Its Sunshield for a Million Mile Trip
Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for…
NASA’s Lucy Stretches Its Wings in Successful Solar Panel Deployment Test
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of both solar panels, the final step…
Carlton Peters, Head of Thermal Engineering, Keeps It Cool…or Warm
Carlton Peters, aerospace engineer and branch chief of the Thermal Engineering Branch, never blows hot or…
Hubble Spots Double Quasars in Merging Galaxies
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is “seeing double.” Peering back 10 billion years into the universe’s past,…
NASA’s Curiosity Team Names Martian Hill That Serves as Mission ‘Gateway’
The team of scientists and engineers behind NASA’s Curiosity rover named a hill along the rover’s…
What a Glacial River Reveals About the Greenland Ice Sheet
With data from a 2016 expedition, scientists supported by NASA are shedding more light into the…
NASA OSIRIS-REx's Final Asteroid Observation Run
On Apr. 7, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu as it…
NASA’s Roman Mission Predicted to Find 100,000 Transiting Planets
Scientists predict that the data collected for Roman’s microlensing survey will provide an additional bounty of…
NASA Awards Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2021
NASA has selected 24 new Fellows for its prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP). …