A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system. The object —
possible interstellar object, it will approach no closer to Earth than about 190 million
This year’s Arctic sea ice cover shrank to the second-lowest extent since modern record keeping began in the late 1970s. An analysis of satellite data by NASA
square miles (3.74 million square kilometers).
Editor’s note: Antarctica and the Arctic are two very different environments: the former is a continent surrounded by ocean, the latter is ocean enclosed
square miles (20 million square kilometers), according to the National Snow and
What is the Airspace Technology Demonstration 2?
By September 2021, the IADS tools had saved more than one million gallons of jet
In 2021, NASA completed its busiest year of development yet in low-Earth orbit, made history on Mars, continued to make progress on its Artemis plans for the
Awarded approximately $3.82 million in cooperative agreements to 39 research and
Two additional secondary payloads that will travel to deep space on Artemis I, the first flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, are ready for launch. The Team Miles and EQUilibriUm Lunar-Earth point 6U Spacecraft (EQUULEUS) CubeSats are tucked into dispensers and installed in the Orion stage adapter – the ring …
miles (96 million kilometers) – before ending the mission.
NASA moved 100 feet closer to its return to deep-space missions this month with the completion of a steel tower for tests of the world’s most powerful rocket,
Engineers completed the addition of about 1 million pounds of structural steel work
Editor’s Note: For the latest news and images on Comet ISON, visit www.nasa.gov/ison.
Before it reaches Mars — at some 230 million miles away from the sun — the radiation
on Oct. 15, the animated sequence shows the movement of the asteroid, then 4.25 million
Comet hunters still have a chance to see comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková in the next few days using binoculars or a telescope. It’s the first of a trio of
the morning of Saturday, Feb. 11, when it passes by at a distance of about 7.7 million
