Don’t Miss: Lunar Occultation – Mars Disappears
What are some skywatching highlights in December 2022? The Moon sweeps past Jupiter twice this month, and actually covers Mars completely, in an event called…
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Mauna Loa Awakens – Satellites View World’s Largest Active Volcano
During Mauna Loa’s first eruption in nearly four decades, satellites observed the volcano’s nighttime glow and sulfur dioxide plume. Hawaii’s Mauna Loa—the world’s largest active…
NASA Astronauts Complete New Solar Array Installation on International Space Station
NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio concluded their spacewalk at 2:21 p.m. EST after 7 hours and 5 minutes. The pair of Expedition 68…
NASA Artemis I – Flight Day 18: Orion Spacecraft Re-enters Lunar Sphere of Influence
On Flight Day 18 of NASA’s Artemis I mission, Orion re-entered the lunar sphere of influence at 4:45 p.m. CST on Saturday, December 3. This…
Ride Along With Artemis Around the Moon [Official NASA Video]
Cameras on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft give us amazing views of this amazing adventure around the Moon. See up-close views…
Webb and Keck Telescopes Team for Unprecedented Look at Saturn’s Moon Titan – “Simply Extraordinary!”
On the morning of Saturday, November 5, an international team of planetary scientists woke up with great delight to the first Webb images of Saturn’s…
NASA Artemis I: Orion Spacecraft Fine-Tunes Trajectory and Downlinks Data
After departing distant retrograde orbit on the afternoon of Thursday, December 1, Orion completed a planned trajectory correction burn to fine-tune its course toward the…
NASA Artemis I: Orion Returning Home – Successfully Completes Distant Retrograde Departure Burn
On Artemis I Flight Day 16, Orion left its distant lunar orbit and began its return journey home. The spacecraft successfully completed the distant retrograde…
NASA Artemis I – Flight Day 15: Orion Capsule “Go” for Distant Retrograde Orbit Departure
On Wednesday, November 30, NASA’s Artemis I mission management team met to review the overall status of the flight test. They polled “go” for Orion…
NASA’s BioSentinel Mission Underway After Successful Lunar Flyby
NASA’s BioSentinel – a shoebox-sized CubeSat designed to learn what happens to life in deep space – is traveling far from Earth. But that also…
NASA Scientists Use Discover Supercomputer To Create Black Hole Jets
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists ran 100 sophisticated simulations exploring jets — narrow beams of energetic particles — that emerge at nearly light speed…
SOFIA Finds No Phosphine – a Potential Sign of Life – on Venus
Venus is considered Earth’s twin in many ways. However, recent observations made with the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have now made one difference…
NASA Artemis I – Flight Day 14: Deep Space Testing Continues
Artemis I launched on November 16, with the powerful Space Launch System rocket carrying Orion lifting off from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
NASA Assesses Launch Pad for Damage After Launch of the World’s Most Powerful Rocket
Following the successful Artemis I liftoff of the world’s most powerful rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams carefully assessed the mobile launcher…
History-Making Event: Orion Goes the (Max) Distance – 268,563 Miles From Earth
NASA Artemis I — Flight Day 13: Orion Goes the (Max) Distance Just after 3 p.m. CST on Monday, November 28, NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft…
Astronauts on Space Station Open Dragon and Unpack New Bone, Skin Healing Experiments
Launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on November 26, the Dragon resupply ship is now docked to the International Space Station (ISS) and open…
NASA Artemis I – Flight Day 12: Orion Tests Star Trackers and Reaction Control Thrusters
As Orion continued along a distant retrograde orbit of the Moon on the 12th day of the Artemis I mission, team members conducted another planned…
SpaceX Cargo Dragon Docks to Space Station With Solar Arrays and Science Experiments
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 7:39 a.m. EST this morning, while…
