NASA Monitors Asteroid 2024 YR4 as Impact Probability Rises
NASA and the global scientific community are on high alert as asteroid 2024 YR4 has been identified as a potential threat to Earth. With a 2.3% chance of impact on…
Piece Together The Universe With NASA
Time travel into deep space with the officially licensed NASA jigsaw. The awe-inspiring puzzles uses amazing and inspiring imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope to help you piece together the…
Antares Rocket Launches to the Space Station
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company’s Cygnus spacecraft aboard, launches at 9:16 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, at NASA’s Wallops…
Hubble Captures Galactic Glamour Shot
This stunning image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 5643 in the constellation of Lupus (the Wolf). Looking this good isn’t easy; 30 different exposures,…
Retroreflectors: From Apollo to Mars
When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the crew brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays of mirrors. The plan was for scientists on Earth to…