National Aeronautics & Space Administration has received a Columbus research laboratory module. This module serves as a key component of the International Space Station. It enables the research capabilities of the station to expand. The module can hold up to ten payload facility racks of experiments...
The Artemis 2 moon crew during a launch simulation at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 20, 2023. They stand on the crew access arm at Launch 39B, which will one day bring them to the waiting Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. From left: NASA astronaut and pilot Victor...
This was NASA’s third sample return from a deep-space robotic mission. The Genesis spacecraft dropped off bits of solar wind in 2004, but the samples were compromised when the parachute failed and the capsule slammed into the ground. The Stardust spacecraf...
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“Impacts are the clocks of the solar system,” French lead author Raphael Garcia said in a statement from the Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space in Toulouse. “We need to know the impact rate today to estimate the age of different surfaces.” ...
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Orion's European Service Module arrived from Germany on Nov. 6, 7 years after NASA announced it would rely on the European Space Agency to provide the critical flight hardware. The European component "allows us to take people farther into space than we've ever gone before, so it is a rea...
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four ...
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Earth strives to maintain a balance between the overall amount of incoming and outgoing energy at the top of the atmosphere. This is called Earth’s energy budget or Earth’s radiation budget. Earth receives incoming energy from the Sun. Earth also emits energy back to space. For Earth’s ...