NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer…
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Estelle Church. Credit: Courtesy Estelle Church Name: Estelle Church Title: Systems Engineer and OSIRIS-REx Deputy TAG Phase Lead at Lockheed Martin Education: B.A. Physics and…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng On October 16, 2020, the Moon photobombed NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory’s view of the Sun. This apparent crossing…
OSIRIS-REx at Sample Site Nightingale. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG”…
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on December 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of…
Name: Olivia Billett Title: Systems Engineer and Lockheed Martin Science Phase Lead for ORISIS-REx. Education: B.S Physics and Astronomy from Yale. Master’s in Aerospace from…
NASA’s extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up – one of the agency’s spacecraft is even on its way…
Surface-level view of OSIRIS-REx at sample site Nightingale, with a parking lot for comparison. Credit: NASA/Goddard/CI Lab/University of Arizona NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission…
For the first time ever, testing teams at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California carefully lifted the fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope in order…
NOAA/NASAs Suomi NPP satellite image shows a true-color image of the August Complex and other nearby fires. The August Complex is now the largest fire…
Artist’s concept of meteoriteAnimation inspired by the bright, burning glow of meteors as they enter Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Declan McKenna During…
On October 2 at 4:30 a.m. EDT (0830 UTC), NASA’s IMERG estimated Hurricane Maria was generating as much as 50 mm (2 inches of rain/dark…
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the…
WD 1856 b, a potential planet the size of Jupiter, orbits its dim white dwarf star every 36 hours and is about seven times larger.…
[embedded content]Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. Scientists use several indicators to track solar cycle progress. Credit:…
NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image of Sally at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Sept. 16 about 8 hours after landfall in southern Alabama. Sally…
On September 15 at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 UTC), the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed the most powerful thunderstorms (yellow) were…
Episode 3: Time Machines – Hubble has looked back billions of years in time to see some of the earliest galaxies in their infancy, and…
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J1206. Embedded within the cluster are the distorted images of distant background galaxies, seen…
This series of GIF images shows the development of the Creek fire from September 5 through September 7, 2020. Credit: NASA Worldview On Friday September…