Enlarge / The dust in this galaxy, shaded red, required the MIRI instrument to resolve.
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There is more than one reason why the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is considered to be p…
NASA is getting ready for a new era of lunar exploration with the approach of the Artemis I mission launch. Ahead of eventually returning humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions, Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight which enters…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has had a troubled start to its mission, with a deployment issue affecting its solar power system — but fortunately, engineers were able to address the issue. Now, NASA has shared more information on how members of the Lucy team …
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is on a roll, having now collected and cached 12 samples of rock and soil during its ongoing explorations of the red planet’s Jezero Crater.
In a tweet (below) posted on Thursday, Perseverance described its collection of …
Enlarge / Roscosmos cosmonaut and Executive Director for Piloted Spaceflights Sergey Krikalev speaks during an astronaut panel discussion at the 70th International Astronautical Congress in 2019.
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A senior Russian official on Thursday said tha…
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NASA says it’s on track for the late-August maiden launch of its next-generation lunar rocket and spacecraft for the Artemis I mission.
At a special briefing on Wednesday, August 3, officials at the space agency said final preparatory work on it…
Enlarge / A NASA rendering of the Lucy spacecraft before efforts were made to fully open one of its solar arrays in May and June.
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NASA confirmed this week that its Lucy mission to explore a series of asteroids has a clean bill of health as it…
The Lunar Gateway will be a space station in a lunar orbit primarily for getting astronauts and cargo to the surface of the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
The space agency is using various private firms to develop various Gateway modules, the …
The International Space Station has been orbiting 260 miles above Earth for the last two decades.
While its primary function is as a space-based laboratory for performing science experiments in microgravity conditions, the orbital outpost also allows a…
Sabina Raducan has the kind of job you’d expect the protagonist in a 1990s Michael Bay movie to hold. In The Rock, Nicolas Cage’s Dr. Stanley Goodspeed is an FBI chemical weapons specialist who helps save the day. In Armageddon, Bruce Willis’ Harry Sta…