Space

. NASA to Discuss Psyche Independent Review Board Results The board, initiated by NASA and the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, examined the causes of the Psyche mission missing its planned launch opportunity this year. NASA will host a community town hall at 12 p.m. EDT (9 a.m. PDT) on Friday, Nov. 4, followed by a media teleconference at 1 p.m. (10…

. NASA Continues Psyche Asteroid Mission The mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software in preparation for the 2023 launch date. NASA announced Friday the agency decided its Psyche mission will go forward, targeting a launch period opening on Oct. 10, 2023. Earlier this year, Psyche missed its planned 2022 launch period…

. Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Reveals Dust, Structure in Pillars of Creation The observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) provides a different view of the famous pillars, revealing young stars that have not yet cast off their dusty “cloaks.” This is not an ethereal landscape of time-forgotten tombs. Nor are these soot-tinged fingers reaching…

. Edward Stone Retires After 50 Years as NASA Voyager’s Project Scientist Stone’s remarkable tenure on NASA’s longest-operating mission spans decades of historic discoveries and firsts. Edward Stone has retired as the project scientist for NASA’s Voyager mission a half-century after taking on the role. Stone accepted scientific leadership of the…