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NASA Announces Launch Service for Arctic Warming Experiment

August 15, 2023

NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to provide the launch service for the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission, which aims to give researchers a more accurate picture of the energy entering and leaving Earth. The PREFIRE mission will help close a gap in our understanding of how much of Earth’s heat is lost to space…

Watch NASA Engineers Put a Mars Lander’s Legs to the Test

August 11, 2023

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to rack up tubes filled with rock core samples for the planned Mars Sample Return campaign. The joint effort by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) seeks to bring scientifically selected samples back from Mars to be studied on Earth…

Cracks in Ancient Martian Mud Surprise NASA’s Curiosity Rover Team

August 10, 2023

Scientists aren’t entirely sure how life began on Earth, but one prevailing theory posits that persistent cycles of wet and dry conditions on land helped assemble the complex chemical building blocks necessary for microbial life. This is why a patchwork of well-preserved…

NASA Data Shows Fierce Surface Temperatures During Phoenix Heat Wave

August 9, 2023

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have created a series of maps showing land-surface temperatures in the Phoenix area in July 2023, when the city experienced a record-breaking run of hot weather. The images reveal the cumulative effect – overnight and across the month – of relentless daytime heating. The data was captured during overnight hours (around 2 a.m.) on several days…

NASA’s Trio of Mini Rovers Will Team up to Explore the Moon

August 7, 2023

NASA is sending a trio of miniature rovers to the Moon to see how well they can cooperate with one another without direct input from mission controllers back on Earth. A teamwork-minded experiment to demonstrate new technology, the CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed…

Science, Hardware Launches on NASA’s Northrop Grumman Cargo Mission

August 2, 2023

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 8,200 pounds of NASA science investigations and cargo after launching at 8:31 p.m. EDT Tuesday from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA…

Euclid Mission to Study Dark Universe Takes First Test Images

August 1, 2023

The two instruments aboard Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) spacecraft with NASA contributions, have captured their first test images. The results indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals that it has been designed for – and possibly much more. The mission will delve into some of the biggest mysteries about our universe, including the nature of dark matter and why…

NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle Continues Progress Toward Mars Sample Return

August 1, 2023

NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently reached some major milestones in support of the Mars Sample Return program. The Mars Ascent Vehicle would be the first launch of a rocket from the surface of another planet. The team developing MAV conducted successful tests of the…

NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Pause

July 28, 2023

A series of planned commands sent to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft July 21 inadvertently caused the antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth. As a result, Voyager 2 is currently unable to receive commands or transmit data back to Earth. Voyager 2 is located more than 12.3…

NASA Awards $14 Million to Universities for Supportive STEM Efforts

July 27, 2023

NASA is investing more than $14 million in 19 U.S. colleges and universities to grow their STEM capacity to participate in critical spaceflight research and prepare a new generation of diverse students for careers in the nation’s science, technology, engineering, and math workforce. “These awards help NASA reach students and institutions that traditionally have had fewer opportunities in…