Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Deployment. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab On January 8, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb…
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This illustration shows NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) in its Block 1 configuration inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…
Galaxy NGC 976 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al. The lazily winding spiral arms of…
October – December 2021 More than 20 million people in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia now face some of the worst food security risks in 35…
January 7, 2022 The glow of a volcanic eruption in the Galápagos Islands was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the…
Why can you see the Moon during the day? Easy, because it’s there! It may seem odd to look up at the daytime sky and…
Debris in Perseverance’s Bit Carousel: Pebble-sized debris can be seen in the bit carousel of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover in this January 7, 2022, image.…
3D animation showing the Hubble Space Telescope over the Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen) Far above rain clouds, light pollution, and…
Mars Perseverance Sol 286 – Right Navigation Camera: NAVCAM image looking southeast towards our return trip around Séítah. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech While many reflect on the…
Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Deployment. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Webb’s iconic primary mirror is taking its final shape. Today,…
Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Deployment. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Engineers have begun the final stage of Webb’s major structural…
Illustration of the Lucy spacecraft near a large asteroid with Jupiter visible in the distant background. Credit: Southwest Research Institute Gathering near Las Vegas recently,…
Webb Aft Radiator Deployment. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab At about 8:48 a.m. EST, a specialized radiator assembly necessary for Webb’s…
Animation of NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter from above. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The next flight on Mars Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system…
[embedded content] This is the beginning of the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that…
Webb Space Telescope Secondary Mirror deployment. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Today, Webb teams successfully deployed the observatory’s secondary mirror support…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared…
Clockwise from bottom, astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Thomas Marshburn and Matthias Maurer are pictured during a playful portrait aboard the station. Credit: NASA The…
The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its…
Webb sunshield tensioning. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The Webb team has completed tensioning for the first three layers of the…