Tag: space
Expedition 57 crew returns to Earth following 197-day space mission
Yesterday, our favorite American space agency released word that three members of the International Space Station’s Expedition 57 crew, including NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, returned to Earth Thursday, safely landing at […]
Voyager 2 leaves earthly neighborhood and enters interstellar space
For the second time in history, a man-made object has reached the space between the stars. According to a December 10 release from NASA, the space agency’s Voyager 2 probe has exited […]
NASA’s InSight Lander arrives on Martian surface to study planet’s deep interior
Today, Mars received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, […]
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 […]
