…
Category: 2. Space
-
Aurora Australis – NASA
The aurora australis arcs above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above in between Australia and Antarctica on June 12, 2025.
Astronauts aboard the space station take…
Continue Reading
-
Part Time NASA Administrator Update
Keith’s note: Apparently Janet Petro did not ‘Embrace The Challenge’ hard enough when it came to getting people at NASA to quit – thus leading to her replacement – even thought the NASA website says she is still in charge. At least that is what…
Continue Reading
-
NASA’s TRACERS Studies Magnetic Reconnection
High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful explosions in a murky process called magnetic reconnection. A single magnetic reconnection event can release as much energy as…
Continue Reading
-
This star offers the earliest peek at the birth of a planetary system like ours
A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.
Continue Reading
-
NASA Sees Key Progress on Starlab Commercial Space Station
As NASA continues its transition toward a commercial low Earth orbit marketplace, an agency-supported commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed five development and design milestones. Starlab’s planned design consists of a service…
Continue Reading
-
Astronomers witness the dawn of a new solar system for the first time
An international research team has witnessed the earliest moments to date of planets beginning to form around a star beyond the sun.
Continue Reading
-
NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers
Doing NASA Science brings many rewards. But can taking part in NASA citizen science help your career? To find out, we asked participants in NASA’s Exoplanet Watch project about their experiences. In this project, amateur astronomers work…
Continue Reading
-
Ejection Mechanism Design for the SPEED Test Architecture
The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions require to reduce system…
Continue Reading
