Science James Webb Space Telescope heads into final stretch of instrument commissioning NASA has approved 12 out of 17 Webb science instrument modes By Shawn Knight, June 27, 2022, 1:37 PM
Science Curiosity rover finds more evidence of ancient watery regions on Mars Curiosity will soon celebrate its 10-year anniversary By Shawn Knight, June 24, 2022, 11:13 AM 9 comments
Science NASA awards three contracts to design a nuclear power plant for the Moon NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon By Shawn Knight, June 22, 2022, 10:08 AM 11 comments
Science NASA begins switching off Voyager instruments after almost 45 years Probes can hopefully survive into the next decade By Daniel Sims, June 21, 2022, 6:55 AM 27 comments
Science NASA is assembling an independent team to study unidentified aerial phenomena NASA's report will take approximately nine months to complete and will be shared publicly By Shawn Knight, June 10, 2022, 9:28 AM
Science James Webb telescope gets hit by a larger-than-anticipated micrometeoroid Micrometeoroid strikes are unavoidable By Shawn Knight, June 9, 2022, 9:16 AM 23 comments
Science First full-color images from James Webb Space Telescope are coming July 12 Webb is ready to shine By Shawn Knight, June 2, 2022, 10:27 AM 16 comments
Science Dust-covered solar panels force NASA to end Mars InSight lander mission NASA InSight lander will cease science operations this summer By Shawn Knight, May 18, 2022, 9:30 AM 27 comments
Science NASA shares images from Webb Space Telescope's coldest instrument Webb makes previous images look like mush By Shawn Knight, May 10, 2022, 9:54 AM 8 comments
Science NASA's Webb telescope is fully focused and ready for instrument commissioning Literally perfect thus far By Shawn Knight, April 29, 2022, 11:32 AM
Science NASA's Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse from Mars Phobos crossed the face of the Sun for about 40 seconds By Shawn Knight, April 21, 2022, 2:13 PM
Science Hardware NASA beamed holographic doctors to the International Space Station Not the Star Trek: Voyager kind, but still impressive By Rob Thubron, April 21, 2022, 5:13 AM
Science James Webb Telescope's MIRI instrument reaches a super chilly -266 Celsius Webb passes another critical test with flying colors By Shawn Knight, April 14, 2022, 9:45 AM 9 comments
Science NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirms largest comet nucleus ever observed The comet is too far away to post any risk to Earth By Shawn Knight, April 12, 2022, 1:40 PM
Science European probe captures the highest resolution image of the Sun's corona ever taken Our best look yet at the Sun By Shawn Knight, March 25, 2022, 2:38 PM 24 comments
Science James Webb Space Telescope passes key alignment phase Performance is exceeding specifications By Shawn Knight, March 17, 2022, 10:04 AM 12 comments
Science NASA extends Ingenuity Mars helicopter operations through September Ingenuity will conduct aerial reconnaissance for the Perseverance rover By Shawn Knight, March 16, 2022, 12:16 PM
Science Check out 20 years of iconic images courtesy of NASA's Hubble telescope The James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor, promises to wow for years to come By Shawn Knight, March 8, 2022, 3:58 PM
Science Tech Culture Robots could soon autonomously repair and service satellites in orbit NASA wishes to build stuff in space and it has a plan By Sayak Biswas, March 6, 2022, 11:43 AM
Science Electronics James Webb Space Telescope update: Fine Guidance Sensor is guiding The stars are aligning for Webb By Shawn Knight, February 18, 2022, 1:04 PM
Science James Webb team starts aligning the telescope's 18 mirrors NASA said initial results match expectations and simulations conducted on scale model By Shawn Knight, February 4, 2022, 1:20 PM 7 comments
Science NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reaches final destination nearly a million miles from Earth Cooldown and calibration time By Shawn Knight, January 25, 2022, 10:58 AM 7 comments
Science NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now fully deployed The James Webb Space Telescope has taken on its final form By Shawn Knight, January 9, 2022, 2:54 PM 18 comments
Electronics Science NASA didn't equip the James Webb Space Telescope with cameras. Here's why. The risk wasn't worth the reward By Shawn Knight, January 7, 2022, 12:16 PM 25 comments
Science James Webb Space Telescope completes risky sunshield deployment On pins and needles By Shawn Knight, January 5, 2022, 10:33 AM 12 comments