NASA re-establishes contact with Mars Ingenuity Helicopter

The official mission logbook now lists the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 52nd flight as a success. The trip took place on April 26 but mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California lost communication with the chopper as it dropped towards the Mars surface for landing. The Perseverance rover was at a different […]

NASA’s retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars

Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly before it collapsed into a black hole. This fleeting, massive object likely formed from the collision of two neutron stars. “We looked for these signals in […]

NASA launches international mission to survey Earth’s water

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Friday launched the newest Earth science satellite to track nearly all the water on Earth’s surface. “A satellite built for NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) to observe nearly all the water on our planet’s surface lifted off on its […]

French President Emmanuel Macron meets Kamala Harris at NASA headquarters as US tour starts

French President Emmanuel Macron met US Vice President Kamala Harris at the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington and discussed space exploration and the continued strengthening of joint investments in the exploration of the Moon and Mars. Macron, who is US for his official visit, agreed with Harris to strengthen US-France space cooperation […]

NASA’s DART mission successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroid

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space. “IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which […]

NASA will make another attempt to launch Artemis Moon Rocket on Saturday

NASA will make another attempt to launch the Artemis moon rocket on Saturday, the space agency’s Artemis Mission Manager Mike Sarafin said, as per media reports. “We also agreed to move our launch date to Saturday, September the third,” Sarafin as quoted by Sputnik News Agency said on Tuesday. On Monday, NASA called off a planned test flight […]

NASA continue to work with Russian counterpart

While Russian forces invade Ukraine and the West responds with unprecedented sanctions, US space agency NASA said they are continuing to work with their Russian counterparts. “NASA continues working with all our international partners, including the State Space Corporation Roscosmos, for the ongoing safe operations of the International Space Station,” […]

NOAA’s newest earth observing satellite launched by NASA, ULA

In a big development, NASA has successfully launched the third in a series of next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-T, was launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It has been confirmed that […]