22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
...located in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Exciting news from NASA today, as the agency announces the discovery of...the 14 years of Spitzer operations," said Sean Carey, manager of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California. "Spitzer ...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... that make up the solar wind phenomenon. Accordingly, NASA has dedicated its latest mission in honour of Parker’s... also inspired my own research and many important science questions NASA continues to study and further understand every day. I’m very...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
...science discovery,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “These are ...our solar system today.” At the same announcement, NASA also advised that two mission concepts will receive technology...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
...yesterday with the help of a European Ariane 5 rocket, NASA launched a satellite that is hosting its Global-scale Observations...," added Elsayed Talaat, heliophysics chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We anticipate GOLD will give...
12 February 2018
Dream Chaser's first mission to ISS gets NASA go-ahead
... validated by a task order," said Mark Sirangelo, executive vice president of SNC's Space Systems business area. “Receiving NASA’s Authority to Proceed is a big step for the program.” Once operational, Dream Chaser will be able to deliver up to 5,500...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
.... TESS’s design is based on Orbital ATK's LEOStar-2 platform - the 31st of its type that Orbital has delivered to NASA for their science missions. As TESS’s job is to look but not touch anything, its payload is made up of four...
