Space News
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NASA to Host Media Briefing on Space Station Spacecraft Leak Probe
NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 22, to discuss the ongoing investigation of an external leak that occurred Dec. 14, from the Roscosmos…
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NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science
NASA’s InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. First published at NASA.gov
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Sentinel-6B Mission
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6B mission. First published at NASA.gov
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NASA to Air Live Coverage of US Spacewalk for Solar Array Installation
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk on Wednesday, Dec. 21, to install a rollout solar array to increase electrical power in support of operations and…
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NASA Launches International Mission to Survey Earth’s Water
A satellite built for NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) to observe nearly all the water on our planet’s surface lifted off on its way…
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NASA Awards Contract to Maintain Webb Telescope Operations
NASA has selected Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Redondo Beach, California, to support the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract. First published at NASA.gov
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NASA, AST & Science Sign Joint Spaceflight Safety Agreement
NASA and AST & Science, a subsidiary of AST SpaceMobile, Inc., have signed a joint agreement to formalize both parties’ strong interest in the sharing of information to maintain and…
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Chandra Sees Stellar X-rays Exceeding Safety Limits
Astronomers have made the most extensive study yet of how magnetically active stars are when they are young. This gives scientists a window into how X-rays from stars like the…
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NASA’s Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More
2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. First published at NASA.gov
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Splashdown! NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission
NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, at 9:39 a.m. PST Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than 1.4 million miles on a…