Scientists on NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission have discovered a key piece of the puzzle in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, discovering that they form similarly to terrestrial auroras.Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show that the same mechanism that circulates and catapults charged particles into Earth’s atmosphere is happening
Landslides in Alaska. Air quality in Atlanta. Clouds of fire in the west. From the Arctic fringe to agricultural areas, NASA’s new class of Earth Venture suborbital missions is preparing to deliver science that will benefit communities in the United States and beyond. The six projects will mobilize hundreds of scientists and pilots from NASA,
Media accreditation is now open for the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 missions, both targeted for launch in the coming months. The Roman telescope is scheduled to launch no earlier than 7:20 a.m. EDT on Sunday, August 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex
After its longest hibernation period of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting scientific data collected in the distant Kuiper Belt, far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed that New Horizons,
NASA is recruiting research participants for the agency’s next simulated deep space mission. Starting in August 2027, research volunteers will spend a year living and working in interplanetary environments at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, operating in the isolated conditions expected during crewed missions to the Moon or the Red Planet.Learning from this
The military routinely sends satellites to fly alongside rival vehicles and assess their capabilities, but the U.S. military increasingly sees expanding this type of reconnaissance as a challenge best addressed by the private sector. That’s why two space startups, True Anomaly and Rocket Lab, last week completed a rendezvous mission for the U.S. Space Force