Tag: NASA
NASA: Three-million-year-old crater discovered beneath the ice in Greenland
On November 14, NASA reported that an international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice […]
After 11 years, NASA’s Dawn Mission runs out of gas around dwarf planet Ceres
On November 1, NASA reported that the space agency’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Dawn missed […]
Space Station crew recovered following rocket launch failure (video)
At 7:52 a.m. this morning, NASA released a statement concerning Thursday’s Soyuz MS-10 launch headed to the International Space Station: “The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in […]
NASA TV to air launch of NASA astronaut Nick Hagues’ first space mission
Astronaut Nick Hague, who joined NASA’s astronaut corps in 2013, is preparing to launch Thursday, October 11, on his first space mission – a six-month stay on the International Space Station. The […]
NASA may have discovered first moon outside our solar system ever found
NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. On October 3, NASA reported that […]
NASA and ULA launch ICESat-2 rocket to track changes in Earth’s ice measurements
NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) successfully launched from California at 9:02 a.m. today, embarking on its mission to measure the ice of Earth’s frozen reaches with unprecedented […]
NASA launching ICESat-2, advanced laser will measure earth’s changing ice levels
This September, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure – in unprecedented detail – changes in the heights of […]
Journey to touch the sun: NASA launches Parker Solar Probe
While most of the U.S. was still asleep and hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida in the early morning hours […]
Increased Antarctic ice loss speeding up the rise of sea levels globally
On June 13, a new assessment released by NASA in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) revealed that ice losses in Antarctica have tripled since 2012, resulting in increased […]
NASA ‘Planet Hunter’ has launched
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched yesterday on a first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life. TESS, expected to find thousands […]
