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Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space
SPACE.com· 5 days agoNASA's mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche has fired up its ion engines and is now cruising...
NASA’s Psyche Fires Up Its Sci-Fi-Worthy Thrusters - NASA
NASA· 6 days agoThe spacecraft already is beyond the distance of Mars and is using ion propulsion to accelerate...
Safety first: NASA pledges to use AI carefully and responsibly
SPACE.com· 6 days agoNASA will keep safety front of mind while harnessing the ever-growing power of artificial intelligence, agency officials stressed. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology ...
NASA's compact infrared cameras enable new science
Phys.org· 6 days agoThe cameras use sensitive, high-resolution strained-layer superlattice sensors, initially developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,...
Looking back — May 28, 2024
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 3 hours agoScooter Bynum already was the recipient of the Gatorade Alaska Boys Basketball Player of the Year. On Tuesday, the Monroe Catholic High School senior received a Gatorade state honor for his ...
How can we protect satellites in Earth-moon space? This new software could help
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAnd this month, a NASA report concluded that shrinking the timeline to deorbit defunct spacecraft to...
Bright comet headed toward Earth could be visible with the naked eye
LiveScience· 22 hours agoIn a year in which we have already been treated to the "Great North American Solar Eclipse" in April and one of the greatest displays of Northern Lights in the past 500 years in May, what other ...
The original 'Mr. Eclipse:' How a 19th-century astronomer calculated the dates of over 13,000...
SPACE.com· 4 days agoSpace Flight Center. The first total solar eclipse Espenak saw was in March 1970, which sparked his...
Fireball streaks across Montana sky
KPAX Missoula· 7 days agoA dazzling sight caught some people by surprise as it streaked across the Montana sky on Monday, May 20, 2024. Jen Graf shared video of the the fireball that was captured on her home security ...
Ed Dwight, the U.S.'s first Black astronaut candidate on making it to space at 90
NPR· 3 days agoSIMON: Did you see anything up there that inspires your sculpture, something you might do in the future? DWIGHT: Well, you know, I never got far away from NASA. NASA ...