Test Like You Fly: What Is Green Run?
Before NASA’s deep space rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to send NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon, its core stage design…
Mariner 6 and 7 Explore the Red Planet
Lost in the glare following the Apollo 11 Moon landing, two intrepid robotic spacecraft flew by Mars in the summer of 1969 and returned photographs and a trove of scientific…
Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football
How can a planet be “hotter than hot?” The answer is when heavy metals are detected escaping from the planet’s atmosphere, instead of condensing into clouds. Observations by NASA’s Hubble…
NASA Television to Broadcast Space Station Departure of Cygnus Cargo Ship
The Canadarm2 robotic arm is positioned to grapple the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft as it approaches its capture point with the International Space Station orbiting 255 miles above the…
Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World
A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one of which is located in the…