Tag: NASA
NASA make unexpected discovery under Greenland ice
A worldwide group of analysts, including a NASA glaciologist, has found a substantial shooting star affect pit stowing away underneath in excess of a...
Science on the Cusp: Sounding Rockets Head North
Observing Night sky from the edge of the Norwegian ocean, you know you're in an uncommon place. The freezing twists stream over an open sky,...
Satellites and ground sensors observe smoke blanketing California
As amazing downslope winds sent the destructive Camp Fire seething through completely dry vegetation in northern California on November 8, 2018, sensors on the...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx executes fourth asteroid approach maneuver
The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA asteroid study and sample-return mission. Launched on 8 September 2016, its mission...
There is an eerie orange glow above Earth
The sky above Earth is never totally dark. Indeed, even around evening time, a delicate shine radiates from the edge of the upper atmosphere....
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sees bennu from all sides
Two years after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and sending back pictures that provide one gem of a...
Hubble captured smiling face in a hunt for newborn stars
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has recently captured a patch of space filled with galaxies of all shapes, colors, and sizes,...
NASA’s Dawn mission to asteroid belt comes to end
NASA's Dawn mission, that propelled in 2007, looked for after to describe the procedures that dominated early scheme evolution. To make a nearby picture...
Kepler telescope dead after finding thousands of worlds
Kepler was a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-size planets orbiting other stars. Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, the spacecraft was launched...