Today, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand and Vice President Kamala Harris met at the White House and jointly reaffirmed the strong and deep relationship between the United States and New Zealand, based on shared values, people-to-people ties, and cooperation across ...
Soon-to-Operate James Webb Space Telescope Will Explore New Rocky Worlds, Informs NASA | The ...
The huge telescope plans to start its in-depth science investigation by exploring strange, new rocky worlds in unprecedented detail.
According to NASA, it will study two hot exoplanets classified as "super-Earths" for their size and rocky composition: the lava-covered 55 Cancri e and the airless LHS 3844 b.
Mission midpoint: Parker Solar Probe makes 12th encounter with sun | Hub
Nearly four years after launch, the Parker Solar Probe mission, managed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has made unprecedented and significant inroads toward achieving its goals of tracing the flow of energy that heats the sun's outer atmosphere, shedding light on the ...
Blue Origin targets June 4 for next space tourist mission after delay | Space
NS-21, the next mission of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle, is now targeted for Saturday (June 4), company representatives announced today (May 31). NS-21 is scheduled to launch from Blue Origin's West Texas site on Saturday during a window that opens at 9 a.m.
NS-21 was originally supposed to launch on May 20, but Blue Origin delayed things after discovering a potential issue with one of New Shepard's backup systems. The company has not disclosed what exactly that issue was.
NASA's SOFIA flying telescope spots eclipse of odd binary star | Space
NASA's flying telescope SOFIA has been watching a dance between two stars orbiting each other as they approach the moment of eclipse, allowing astronomers to study how the two exchange stardust.
Astronomers believe that the smaller of the two stars is a white dwarf , a dim, cooling remnant of a star that has run out of fuel.
Spectacular Hubble image captures 'grand spiral' galaxy | Space
It's a galactic image from the telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, focusing on NGC 3631. The spiral arms of the "Grand Design Spiral", as this object is nicknamed, are absolutely brimming with starbirth.
The color blue represents visible wavelengths of blue, and orange is showcasing infrared or heat-rich areas that are otherwise difficult to see due to dust in the way.
15 years ago, 1,000 space experts sketched out humanity's future on the Moon
Humanity has been preoccupied with the night sky and our place in the cosmos since the dawn of our species. The vastness of space transcends the arbitrary borderlines we draw here on Earth, offering a never-ending frontier.
The end result was a document published 15 years ago in May 2007, that has changed how we think about humankind's presence in space: "The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination."
Tyler Junior College's Science Center's summer hours begin May 31 | News | jacksonvilleprogress.com
The summer season is blasting off at the TJC Earth and Space Science Center featuring Hudnall Planetarium, with the addition of new dome shows featuring the universe and the future of space travel.
"We're excited to debut two new shows — 'Unveiling the Invisible Universe' and 'Forward! To the Moon' — which I'm sure everyone will love," said Dr. Beau Hartweg, TJC science center director.
FAA delays environmental review of SpaceX's Starship 2 more weeks, to June 13 | Space
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has delayed the completion of its environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program by another two weeks, to June 13.
That review, known as a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA), is gauging the environmental impacts of SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas, where the company builds and tests its giant Starship vehicle.
Betelgeuse's 'Great Dimming' had an unlikely observer: a Japanese weather satellite | Space
Astronomers have a new way to study stars: take advantage of meteorological satellites orbiting Earth.
That's the conclusion of a new paper that presents new data from a Japanese weather satellite that just so happened to observe the red supergiant star Betelgeuse during a period of inexplicable dimming.
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