Science Webb's portrait of the Pillars of Creation is a star-filled delight NASA points Webb at the Pillars of Creation By Shawn Knight , October 20, 2022, 9:53 AM
Science NASA: DART mission altered asteroid's orbit by 32 minutes DART was a success! By Shawn Knight , October 12, 2022, 9:33 AM 9 comments
Science New supercomputer simulation suggests the Moon may have formed in mere hours, not months or years A new take on the giant-impact theory By Shawn Knight , October 5, 2022, 11:36 AM 20 comments
Science NASA shares first close-up images of Jupiter moon Europa in two decades Juno flew within 219 miles of Jupiter's moon By Shawn Knight , September 30, 2022, 10:04 AM
Science Watch NASA hit an asteroid with a spacecraft as it happened The first-ever demonstration of a planetary defense system By Shawn Knight , September 27, 2022, 9:50 AM
Science James Webb Telescope captures clearest image of Neptune's rings in more than 30 years Our first look at Neptune in infrared By Shawn Knight , September 21, 2022, 1:37 PM 8 comments
Hardware Science SiFive RISC-V cores and Microchip processors will power NASA's future space missions NASA's upcoming HPSC, RISC-V based computer will be 100 times faster By Alfonso Maruccia , September 9, 2022, 7:24 AM 8 comments
Science NASA's James Webb telescope captures a Cosmic Tarantula The Tarantula Nebula is located 161,000 light-years away By Shawn Knight , September 7, 2022, 10:57 AM
Science MIT's lunchbox-sized machine can produce oxygen on Mars A first step to producing rocket fuel on Mars By Daniel Sims , September 6, 2022, 5:36 PM 7 comments
Science Radio observatory records signals from Voyager satellite launched almost 45 years ago At more than 14 billion miles away, the craft is the farthest man-made object in space By Jimmy Pezzone , August 27, 2022, 9:46 AM 20 comments
Science NASA detects carbon dioxide on a planet outside of our solar system for the first time James Webb Space Telescope finds carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere By Shawn Knight , August 26, 2022, 2:37 PM 20 comments
Science Jupiter's auroras, tiny moons showcased in latest Webb telescope images More stunning imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope By Shawn Knight , August 22, 2022, 2:48 PM
Science James Webb Space Telescope zeroes in on the Cartwheel Galaxy Another stunning view from the world's premier space science observatory By Shawn Knight , August 3, 2022, 11:05 AM 21 comments
Science NASA revises plans to bring rock samples back from Mars The success of Perseverance and Ingenuity prompted a rethink By Shawn Knight , July 28, 2022, 9:29 AM 8 comments
Science NASA delays launch of water-hunting Moon rover by a full year NASA's search for water on the Moon won't start until the end of 2024 By Shawn Knight , July 19, 2022, 1:52 PM
Science The James Webb Space Telescope can generate nearly 60GB of data daily Webb beams data back to Earth at speeds up to 28 megabits per second on the Ka-band By Shawn Knight , July 18, 2022, 9:32 AM 13 comments
Science NASA pointed the James Webb Telescope at Jupiter during testing. Here's what it saw Webb looks at targets close to home By Shawn Knight , July 15, 2022, 10:06 AM
Science NASA's first full-color images from James Webb Space Telescope are stunning First Webb images prove it was worth the wait By Shawn Knight , July 12, 2022, 11:35 AM 8 comments
Science NASA enlists President Biden to unveil first photo from James Webb Space Telescope, and it's happening today The first full-color image from JWST is coming a day early By Shawn Knight , July 11, 2022, 12:07 PM 18 comments
Science NASA teases James Webb Space Telescope's first celestial targets Some of Webb's first targets are thousands of light years away By Shawn Knight , July 8, 2022, 1:36 PM 11 comments
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