NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) completed its Flight Readiness Review on Sept. 18, which certifies its readiness to initiate final launch preparation activities. IMAP is targeting a launch date of Sept. 23 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA’s IMAP Mission Passes Major Prelaunch Milestone
September 20, 2025By
NASA’s PREFIRE satellites reveal a secret glow escaping from our planet
August 18, 2025By
With its two tiny CubeSats, NASA’s PREFIRE mission is capturing invisible heat escaping from Earth, offering clues to how ice, clouds, and storms influence the climate system. The insights could lead to better weather forecasts and a deeper understanding of global change.
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NASA’s Hubble Tracks Down a ‘Blue Lurker’ Among Stars
January 14, 2025By
An unusual star that spins over seven times faster than our sun has been detected by Hubble. Known as a “blue lurker,” it probably got a turbo-boost from the merger of two accompanying stars that fed material onto the star, increasing its rotation speed.
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NASA’s Webb telescope launches to see first galaxies, distant worlds
December 26, 2021By
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched Dec. 25 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. The Webb observatory’s mission is to seek the light from the first galaxies in the early universe and to explore our own solar system, as well as planets orbiting other stars, called exoplanets.
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter succeeds in historic first flight
April 19, 2021By
The small rotorcraft made history, hovering above Jezero Crater, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another planet is possible.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collects significant amount of asteroid
October 24, 2020By
Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, Oct. 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements — acquiring at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of the asteroid’s surface material.
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Data flows from NASA’s TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet
March 28, 2019By
Astronomers who study stars have contributed to the analysis of a planet discovered by NASA’s new TESS Mission. It’s the first planet identified by TESS for which the oscillations — ‘starquakes’ — of the planet’s host star could be measured.
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Legacy of NASA’s Dawn, near the end of its mission
September 8, 2018By
NASA’s Dawn mission is drawing to a close after 11 years of breaking new ground in planetary science, gathering breathtaking imagery, and performing unprecedented feats of spacecraft engineering.
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NASA’S OSIRIS-REx spacecraft slingshots past Earth
September 24, 2017By
NASA’s asteroid sample return spacecraft successfully used Earth’s gravity on Friday to slingshot itself on a path toward the asteroid Bennu, for a rendezvous next August.
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NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
July 13, 2017By
Images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval. The JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system’s largest planetary inhabitant during its July 10 flyby.
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