Queen Guitarist Brian May to Co-Author Asteroid Atlas
The prominent astrophysicist and musician Brian May is co-authoring a three-dimensional atlas of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, an 85-million-ton hunk ...
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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission Facing Serious Cash Crunch
NASA’s quest to return rocky samples from the surface of Mars to Earth in 2033 is already running up the ...
Spotted a UFO? There’s an App for That
The tech startup Enigma Labs wants to turn UFO sightings into data science. Previously, people who had seen strange lights darting ...
A New NASA Satellite Will Map Earth’s Rising Seas
SWOT could turn out to be a major improvement over measurements by previous satellites. “Instead of a ‘pencil beam’ moving ...
NASA’s Orion Moon Capsule Is Back. What Happens Next?
After circling the moon for the past three weeks, NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down under parachute yesterday morning off the ...
NASA Will Not Change the James Webb Telescope’s Name
James Webb led NASA in the 1950s and 60s, during the Cold War–era “Lavender Scare,” when government agencies often enforced ...
The Physics of Smashing a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid
There are a couple of things to notice. First, after the collision DART is moving backwards, because it bounced. Since ...
NASA’s DART Spacecraft Smashes Into an Asteroid—on Purpose
“This is the first time we’ve actually attempted to move something in our solar system with the intent of preventing ...
NASA Delays the Launch of Its Giant Moon-Bound Rocket
NASA has pushed back the launch of its Artemis 1 mission to the moon due to an issue with one ...
NASA Delays Artemis 1 Launch Due to Engine Issue
SLS on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo: NASAGround teams at Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...