Ingenuity Helicopter Completed Its 69th Trip Above Mars Surface
You’ve heard of helicopters on Earth, but have you heard of them in space? NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, which is on Mars, has completed it’s 69th trip above the surface of…
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Hubble Space Telescope Takes Photo of Saturn Spokes
NASA has released a new photo of Saturn, which reveals a phenomenon called Saturn Spokes. The Spokes were first photographed in 1981, by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. The Spokes are…
NASA Shares What Looks Like a Christmas Tree Star Cluster
NASA has shared a photo of the star cluster known as NGC 2264, which also looks like a glowing Christmas tree star cluster. Located about 2,500 light years away from…
NASA’s GUSTO Balloon Will Help Map The Milky Way
In Antarctica, Scientists are preparing to launch a GUSTO, a NASA experiment which will explore the universe on a balloon. The craft will launch near the U.S. National Science Foundation’s…
NASA Took An Amazing Photo Of Uranus
NASA’s James Webb Telescope recently set its sights towards Uranus, and captured a photo of the ringed planet. In the photo, we can see the inner and outer rings of…
NASA’s NEOWISE Telescope Will Burn Up By 2025
Since the NEOWISE space telescope started its mission in 2013, it has discovered a once-in-lifetime comet, as well a observing more than 3,000 near earth objects. It looks like eventually…
Perseverance Rover Marks Its 1000th Day on Mars
In February 2021, NASA’s Perseverance Rover landed on Mars. On Mars, the main objective is astrobiology, which includes the search of ancient microbial life. The rover is characterizing the planet’s…
Webb Telescope Finds Three Tiny Brown Dwarf Stars
Recently, Kevin Luhman of Pennsylvania State University chose to study the star cluster IC 348, which is about 1,000 light years away in the Perseus star-forming region. Using James Webb’s…
Voyager 1 Computer Is Experiencing Issues Sending Data To Earth
NASA Engineers are looking to fix an issue with one of the Voyager 1 computers. The craft is receiving and executing commands sent from Earth, but the FDS (flight data…
NASA Is Working To Reduce Contrail Formations
If you look up at the sky at any point, you might notice a plane. Planes tend to emit contrails, which are certainly bad for the environment. To help combat…