NASA to Provide Update on DART, World’s First Planetary Defense Test
Updated: 2023-07-31 21:51:29
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NASA to Provide Coverage for Launch of ESA ‘Dark Universe’ Mission
Updated: 2023-07-31 21:51:29The 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: 2023-07-31 21:51:29After 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: 2023-07-31 21:51:29: , ,NASA Hosts OSIRIS-REx Sample Lab Media Day in Houston
Updated: 2023-07-31 21:51:29Ahead 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: 2023-07-31 21:51:29Analysis 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: 2023-07-31 21:51:29NASA has selected Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Redondo Beach, California, to support the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract.Join NASA to Celebrate Webb Space Telescope’s First Year of Science
Updated: 2023-07-31 21:51:29NASA is commemorating the first year of science and discoveries from the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex space telescope ever built. To celebrate the anniversary, multiple events will take place online and live across the U.S.Experts Available to Discuss NASA Webb Telescope Science Results
Updated: 2023-07-31 21:51:29Experts 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.Stars with superpowered magnetic fields could narrow the search for alien life
Updated: 2023-07-31 17:00:00
With unusually powerful magnetic fields, these stars seem to get a boost when their cores start to drift apart. Thus, they may not be the ideal hosts for habitable exoplanets.