3+ week, 5+ day ago   (168+ words) Bird constellations abound in the night sky, including Cygnus, the majestic swan. Easy to find with its dazzling stars, it is one of the few constellations that look like its namesake, and it is full of treasures. Visible in the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (211+ words) The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics. Roman is set to launch August 30, 2026 at 07:26 am EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (74+ words) Mars Science Laboratory Mission Team Members By Allison Dries-Padilla, Missions Operations Specialist at Malin Space Science Systems Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 14, 2026 Curiosity will then continue to climb Mount Sharp; the planned drive distance of 150 feet (47 meters) will take the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (196+ words) By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 7, 2026 This week was very special for the Curiosity team here on Earth as we celebrated the 14th landing anniversary. I still remember watching the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (404+ words) A Unique, Metal Rich World Psyche is a giant metal rich asteroid, about three times farther away from the Sun than is Earth. It has an irregular, potato-like shape. If Psyche were sliced in half horizontally at its equator it…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (262+ words) NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30. While you wait to watch the launch, brush up on some key facts about this wide-view mission. This summer, everyone was invited to submit…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (157+ words) NASA has made 10 new awards through the Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations (PICASSO) program. The PISCASSO23 projects will expand NASA’s portfolio of technology available for the development of missions exploring a wide range of environments, from…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (340+ words) NASA's Hubble and Roman space telescopes will work together to broaden our perspective of the universe. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will build upon Hubble’s decades of discovery by providing us with deep,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (272+ words) NASA Hubble Mission Team Goddard Space Flight Center N44 is dominated by two features: a vast central void and a shell of dense, dusty gas. The central void is a ‘superbubble’ spanning roughly 210 by 140 light-years across. The glittering stars at the…...