HiRISE Watches Curiosity

HiRISE Watches Curiosity Journey Across the Clay Unit No ownership claimed on image - Credit NASA / JPL https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/

A Glimpse of a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface | NASA

Discovered in 2018 by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS) mission, planet LHS 3844b is located 48.6 light-years from Earth and has a radius 1.3 times that of Earth. It orbits a small, cool type of star called an M dwarf - especially noteworthy because, as the most common and long-lived type of star in the Milky Way galaxy,...

Replacing the Space Station’s Solar Array Batteries

After completing the first of 10 spacewalks to upgrade the station, astronaut Christina Koch wrote: "The great @Space_Station battery swap series of spacewalks is underway! A joy & privilege working with @AstroDrewMorgan outside, @astro_luca as the lead for suits & airlock, @Astro_Jessica as robotic arm operator, & the incredible teams in Houston. 3 batteries complete, 9 to go!" Image Credit: NASA/Christina Koch

Astronaut Nick Hague Soaks Up Views of Earth | NASA

As he prepares to conclude his stay aboard the orbiting laboratory this week, astronaut Nick Hague shared this photo saying: "Today is my last Monday living on this orbiting laboratory and I’m soaking up my final views. The @Space_Station is truly an engineering marvel. #MondayMotivation."  Hague will return to Earth after a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. He and Expedition 60 and...

Top Five Technologies Needed for a Spacecraft to Survive Deep Space | NASA

When a spacecraft built for humans ventures into deep space, it requires an array of features to keep it and a crew inside safe. Both distance and duration demand that spacecraft must have systems that can reliably operate far from home, be capable of keeping astronauts alive in case of emergencies and still be light...

Hubble’s 5 Weirdest Black Hole Discoveries

From absorbing whole dwarf galaxies to containing the mass of a billion stars – black holes are a cosmic force to be reckoned with. This #BlackHoleWeek NASA is bringing us Hubble Space Telescope's 5 weirdest black hole discoveries https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/187921705234/hubbles-5-weirdest-black-hole-discoveries?linkId=74206098 No ownership claimed on material - Credit NASA

Stuck on the Rings

Tethys appears to be stuck to Saturn's A and F rings from this perspective.(No ownership claimed on image) Source: Stuck on the Rings

What it takes to travel the stars!

This chart I found on Pinterest shows the gargantuan effort needed to travel between the stars. What do you think? https://pin.it/ncv3jnzwuncwjh

30 Years Ago: Voyager 2’s Historic Neptune Flyby | NASA

Neptune as taken from NASA's Voyager 2 Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our solar system's eighth planet. Marking the end of the Voyager mission's Grand Tour of the solar system's four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune...

50 Years Ago: One Small Step, One Giant Leap | NASA

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins awoke to start their fifth day in space at the end of their ninth revolution around the Moon. In Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center, now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Eugene F. Kranz’s White Team of controllers arrived on...

Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn’t Exist | NASA

As if black holes weren't mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away.  The conundrum is that the disk shouldn't be there, based on current...

Space Travel – What good is it to the Human Race?

Yesterday NASA completed a successful test of the abort system of the Orion spacecraft, this is just one headline in a whole list of announcements in space exploration. Whether it's Space X, NASA or Blue Origin someone, somewhere is heading back to the Moon with a view to getting to Mars. https://youtu.be/4rfsDMGplZU But why?Many say...