NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Satellite Analyzes Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket
Dust storms from Africa’s Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but the current dust storm has been quite expansive and NASA satellites have provided a look…
Black Hole Bounty Captured in the Center of the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This black hole bounty consists…
Mapping the Early Universe with NASA’s Webb Telescope
Astronomers and engineers have designed telescopes, in part, to be “time travelers.” The farther away an object is, the longer its light takes to reach Earth. Peering back in time…
NASA Moving Forward to Enable a Low-Earth Orbit Economy
One year ago, NASA announced the agency is opening the space station for business, enabling commercial and marketing opportunities on the station, and the agency has moved forward toward its…
An Astronaut’s View of Work
On June 26, 2020, spacewalkers Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy completed the first of two scheduled spacewalks to replace batteries on one of two power channels on the far starboard…