A new NASA project is bringing the wonders of the universe directly to Instagram users’ fingertips, an augmented reality (AR) filter that allows users to experience celestial bodies as seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other space telescopes.
NASA has successfully launched the first of two research satellites under the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) mission planning to measure the heat lost to space from Earth’s polar regions. This PREFIRE mission will enhance our understanding of how elements like water vapor and clouds trap heat, informing climate models and improving predictions on the impacts of climate change.
A new discovery by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has unveiled an Earth-sized exoplanet, Gliese 12 b, located just 40 light-years away in the constellation Pisces. This planet orbits a red dwarf star, Gliese 12 and has characteristics that suggest it could be a candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life.
The White House has directed NASA to start the development of a standardized time zone for the moon, known as Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), by the end of 2026. This initiative dubbed Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), is to synchronize timekeeping for lunar missions.
The United States has successful landed the spacecraft Odysseus on the surface of the moon. This achievement marks the first U.S. spacecraft to perform a controlled descent to the lunar soil since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite, planned to reveal mysteries of Earth’s interconnected systems, successfully launched into orbit at 1:33 a.m. EST on February 8, 2024.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has provided evidence of ancient lake in the Jerezo Crater on Mars, on the Red Planet’s watery past. This discovery, detailed in a recent study published in Science Advances, supports theories that Mars, now a cold and arid world, once harbored vast bodies of water with the potential to sustain microbial life.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected water vapor in the atmosphere of the smallest exoplanet ever observed, GJ 9827d.
NASA and Lockheed Martin have officially revealed the X-59, an experimental aircraft designed to transform the future of air travel. The X-59 is at the core of NASA’s Quesst mission, which is to address the challenge of sonic booms associated with supersonic flight over land.
The U.S. military’s X-37B robotic spaceplane is on its seventh secretive mission, propelled by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
