The headline may seem silly but in reality it’s fascinating. NASA took the task of connecting with life on other planets very seriously. The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched with the sole purpose of connecting with alien life. Upon its embarkment in 1977, it was loaded with sounds...
NASA hails a picture perfect Mars landing Sent first images of planet in 21 yearsDavid L. Chandler, Globe staff
NASArolled SLS to the launchpadfor the first time last week. It is now undergoing final testing that will enable the space agency to confirm the Artemis I launch date. NASA’s new launch vehicle, dubbed the “mega moon rocket,” stands at 322 feet (98.1 meters) and is capable of creati...
They were captured by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecrafton Tuesday, October 20, when it successfully touched the asteroid in an effort to gather rock and dust samples from its surface. It’s the first time the space agency has performed such a feat. The remarkably clear images show the spacecra...
Tianwen-1 also sent back detailed images of the edge of the large Maunder crater, as well as a view of the 18,000-meter Ascraeus Mons, a large volcano first detected by NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft more than 50 years ago. I'm John R...
In contrast, the images that were sent back to Earth this summer were compressed in order to transfer more files faster. In a sense, they acted as preview images intended to show what was still to come when New Horizons had the time to transmit the full data set. (The spacecraft began...
We have to wait until 2029 for all this work to pay off. At that time, Psyche will enter orbit around the asteroid and begin its nearly two-year mission to study it. While other missions have returned samples of asteroids, and while NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will visit a handful of aster...
It was seen by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA's New Horizons as the spacecraft sped toward its close encounter with the Kuiper Belt object at 12:33 a.m. eastern time (0533 GMT) on Jan. 1. New Horizons performed this farthest flyby in history when it approached...
Russialaunched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. The U.S. quickly followed with its own launch of Explorer 1 in 1958. Since then, NASA has had more than 200 successful, manned spacecraft launches and sent out more than 1,000 unmanned satellites. ...
Last year, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbited Ceres, a dwarf planet that resides in an asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. This expedition was the first mission to study Ceres up close, and it produced a collection of detailed images that were sent back to Earth. NASA compiled these image...