Category: Information and Update

This photograph was taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft with long-focal length lens, looking south at the large crater Goclenius, which is in foreground.Credits: NASA/JSC NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will give a keynote address at the virtual fall Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium meeting at 11:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 14…. Read more“NASA Administrator to Announce New Space Tech Public-Private Partnerships”

The CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to be flown on Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test (OFT) is viewed Nov. 2, 2019, while undergoing launch preparations inside the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Credits: Boeing NASA and Boeing continue to make progress toward the company’s second uncrewed flight… Read more“Boeing’s Starliner Makes Progress Ahead of Flight Test with Astronauts”

Once you leave the majestic skies of Earth, the word “cloud” no longer means a white fluffy-looking structure that produces rain. Instead, clouds in the greater universe are clumpy areas of greater density than their surroundings.  This illustration depicts a quasar, a type of active galactic nucleus, surrounded by a… Read more“Why Clouds Form Near Black Holes”

Members of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover mission team photographed themselves on March 20, 2020, the first day the entire mission team worked remotely from home.Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech For people who are able to work remotely during this time of social distancing, video conferences and emails have helped bridge the gap. The… Read more“NASA’s Curiosity Keeps Rolling As Team Operates Rover From Home”

Unprecedented observations of a nova outburst in 2018 by a trio of satellites, including two NASA missions, have captured the first direct evidence that most of the explosion’s visible light arose from shock waves — abrupt changes of pressure and temperature formed in the explosion debris. A nova is a… Read more“NASA Missions Help Reveal the Power of Shock Waves in a Nova Explosion”

This graphic shows a simulation of a WFIRST observation of M31, also known as the Andromeda galaxy. Hubble used more than 650 hours to image areas outlined in blue. Using WFIRST, covering the entire galaxy would take only three hours.Credits: DSS, R. Gendle, NASA, GSFC, ASU, STScI, B. F. Williams… Read more“NASA Approves Development of Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission”

NASA will unveil the name of the agency’s next Mars rover, currently known as Mars 2020, during a live event on NASA Television at 1:30 p.m. EST Thursday, March 5, followed by a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. about the mission and the naming. In addition to airing live on NASA… Read more“NASA to Reveal Name of Next Mars Rover, Hold Media Teleconference”