Article Published by: nasa.gov In an effort to increase the ability to provide astronauts nutrients on long-duration missions as the agency plans to sustainably return to the Moon and move forward to Mars, the Veg-PONDS-02 experiment is currently underway aboard the International Space Station. The present method...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov “We are now on the verge of giving students and teachers the ability to build and fly affordable experiments in space. When teachers are this excited about putting experiments in space, their students can’t help but get excited about space, too.” Elizabeth Kennick,...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers captured this festive, colorful look at the tentacled Southern Crab Nebula. The nebula, officially known as Hen 2-104, is located several thousand light-years from Earth in the southern...
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Article Published by: cnn.com That black hole you've seen everywhere now has a name. It's been christened Powehi -- a Hawaiian phrase referring to an "embellished dark source of unending creation." The groundbreaking, first-ever photograph of a black hole was published around the world when it was unveiled...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov In 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped past Neptune—its final planetary target before speeding to the outer limits of the solar system. It was the first time a spacecraft had visited the remote world. As the craft zoomed by, it snapped pictures of...
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Article Published by: Nasa A NASA-led and NASA-sponsored study of potential future missions to the mysterious “ice giant” planets Uranus and Neptune has been released—the first in a series of mission studies NASA will conduct in support of the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey. The results of...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov As the brilliant comet 46P/Wirtanen streaked across the sky, NASA telescopes caught it on camera from multiple angles. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 13, when the comet was 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Earth. In this visible-light...
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Article Published by: astronomy.com As the Juno spacecraft prepares for its 16th close pass by Jupiter later this month, let's recap what the ambitious project has already taught us. Juno’s Flight NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft is about to fly past Jupiter yet again to gather more data on...
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Article Published by: forbes.com The game of science isn't a sprint. We don't leap from discovery to discovery, constantly rewriting our knowledge and overhauling long-held beliefs at a moment's notice. Sure, science is a process of continual, never-ending updates, but it's a slow, gradual exercise that...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov With InSight safely on the surface of Mars, the mission team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is busy learning more about the spacecraft's landing site. They knew when InSight landed on Nov. 26 that the spacecraft had touched down on...
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