NASA Announces US Industry Partnerships to Advance Moon, Mars Technology
Illustration of a human landing system and crew on the lunar surface with Earth near the horizon. Credits: NASA As NASA prepares to land humans on the Moon by 2024…
NASA’s TESS Mission Scores ‘Hat Trick’ With 3 New Worlds
NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered three new worlds — one slightly larger than Earth and two of a type not found in our…
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is commemorating its 20th anniversary with an assembly of new images. These images represent the breadth of Chandra’s exploration, demonstrating the variety of objects it studies…
Visions of Apollo 11: Command Service Module Orbits the Moon
On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off for the Moon and into history. Artist Russ Arasmith‘s vision of Apollo was a potent vision of the program that shows in…
NASA’s TESS Mission Completes First Year of Survey, Turns to Northern Sky
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring in the southern sky during its first year…