official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying toward an asteroid more than 5 million miles away. The message prompted the spacecraft to execute a series of pre-programmedContinue reading “Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense”
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NASA Invites Media to Joint Launch of Sun, Space Weather Missions
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media accreditation is open for the launch of three observatories that will study the Sun and enhance the ability to make accurate space weather forecasts, helping protect technology systems that affect life on Earth. NASA is targeting no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23, for the launch of the agency’s IMAPContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to Joint Launch of Sun, Space Weather Missions”
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4636-4637: Up Against a Wall
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator, Framework Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025 What does a good rover do when her back is up against a wall? Fight for science! Curiosity indeed fought the good fight at “Río Frío,” the wall of one of the many ridgesContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4636-4637: Up Against a Wall”
NASA to Announce New Astronaut Class, Preview Artemis II Moon Mission
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA is opening media accreditation for multi-day events to introduce America’s newest astronaut class and provide briefings for the Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. The activities will take place in September at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. AfterContinue reading “NASA to Announce New Astronaut Class, Preview Artemis II Moon Mission”
X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observe this object. Now, new radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), has beenContinue reading “X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image”
La NASA anunciará una nueva promoción de astronautas y adelantará detalles de la misión lunar Artemis II
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Read this release in English here. La NASA ha abierto el plazo para la acreditación de los medios a un programa de eventos de varios días de duración para presentar a la nueva promoción de astronautas de Estados Unidos y proporcionar información sobre el vuelo de prueba tripulado de la misiónContinue reading “La NASA anunciará una nueva promoción de astronautas y adelantará detalles de la misión lunar Artemis II”
NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of moleculesContinue reading “NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability”
Viking 1 Begins Journey to Mars
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A Titan-Centaur rocket carrying the Viking 1 spacecraft launches from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Aug. 20, 1975. Viking 1 touched down on the red planet on July 20, 1976, becoming the first truly successful landing on Mars. Viking 1 was the first of a pairContinue reading “Viking 1 Begins Journey to Mars”
Steve Platnick Steps Down from NASA After 34 Years of Service
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Dr. Steven “Steve” Platnick took the NASA agency Deferred Resignation Program (DRP). His last work day was August 8, 2025. Steve spent more than three decades at, or associated with, NASA. While he began his civil servant career at the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 2002, his GoddardContinue reading “Steve Platnick Steps Down from NASA After 34 Years of Service”
NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is turning up the heat in solar science with the launch of the Surya Heliophysics Foundational Model, an artificial intelligence (AI) model trained on 14 years of observations from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Developed by NASA in partnership with IBM and others, Surya uses advances in AI to analyzeContinue reading “NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun”