NASA to Provide Update on DART, World’s First Planetary Defense Test
Updated: 2023-06-30 21:13:49
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NASA to Provide Coverage for Launch of ESA ‘Dark Universe’ Mission
Updated: 2023-06-30 21:13:49The ESA (European Space Agency) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m. EDT Saturday, July 1, to launch the Euclid spacecraft. Euclid is an ESA mission with contributions from NASA that will shed light on the nature of dark matter and dark energy, two of the biggest modern mysteries about the universe.NASA’s DART Mission Hits Asteroid in First-Ever Planetary Defense Test
Updated: 2023-06-30 21:13:49After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.NASA’s Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More
Updated: 2023-06-30 21:13:49: , ,NASA Hosts OSIRIS-REx Sample Lab Media Day in Houston
Updated: 2023-06-30 21:13:49Ahead of the first asteroid sample collected by the U.S. arriving on Earth in September, media are invited on Monday, July 24, to see NASA’s newly-built OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Laboratory where the agency will study the sample at its Johnson Space Center in Houston.NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space
Updated: 2023-06-30 21:13:49Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demNASA Awards Contract to Maintain Webb Telescope Operations
Updated: 2023-06-30 21:13:49NASA has selected Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Redondo Beach, California, to support the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract.Celebrate 'International Observe the Moon Night' with NASA
Updated: 2023-06-30 21:13:49The public is invited to participate in NASA’s celebration of "International Observe the Moon Night" on Saturday, Oct. 1.Experts Available to Discuss NASA Webb Telescope Science Results
Updated: 2023-06-30 21:13:49Experts from NASA and other institutions will be available by teleconference at 11 a.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 17, to answer media questions about early science results from the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope.Europe's 'dark universe' Euclid spacecraft ready for July 1 SpaceX launch
Updated: 2023-06-30 19:00:53
The Euclid spacecraft, which aims to shed light on dark matter and dark energy, is ready to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday (July 1).
Saturn's rings look gorgeous in 1st James Webb Space Telescope photo of the gas giant
Updated: 2023-06-30 18:41:14
Saturn's famous rings shine bright in an incredible new photo by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, its first officially released shot of the gas giant.
James Webb Space Telescope spots intriguing carbon molecule in planet-forming disk
Updated: 2023-06-30 18:00:30
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted the carbon molecule methyl cation in a planet-forming disk around a red dwarf star.
Can you see the cosmic 'cat' grinning into one of the world's largest telescopes in this photo? (video)
Updated: 2023-06-30 15:00:31
Observations of a distant stellar nursery show it as a smiling cosmic cat with a head so massive it stretches for 150 light-years with a cluster of infants stars below its nose.