Tag Archives: NASA

NASA discovers a ‘super-Earth’ with possible oceans

NASA discovers a ‘super-Earth’ with possible oceans

A starlight flicker recorded by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in March 2025 hinted at something intriguing. Now the signal has been traced to TOI‑1846 b, a super‑Earth lying only 154 light-years away in the northern constellation Lyra. The planet’s discovery comes from Abderahmane Soubkiou and colleagues at the Oukaimeden Observatory in Morocco, working with observers on four continents.  …

Read More »

Remember That Asteroid NASA Deflected in a Test of Saving Earth? We Have Bad News

Remember That Asteroid NASA Deflected in a Test of Saving Earth? We Have Bad News

In late 2022, NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth. The small spacecraft smashed into asteroid Didymos’ moonlet Dimorphos at a violent 14,000 mph, knocking it severely off course. But three years later, astronomers found …

Read More »

Lockheed Martin Wants To Bring Mars Rover’s Samples To Earth If NASA Can’t

Lockheed Martin Wants To Bring Mars Rover’s Samples To Earth If NASA Can’t

Lockheed Martin has announced the details of a proposal to take over NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, tasked with retrieving the samples that the Perseverance rover on the red planet has already collected. These samples have great scientific value, including the possibility of the evidence of life. While originally conceived as an in-house …

Read More »

NASA Selects Instruments for Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle

NASA Selects Instruments for Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle

NASA has selected three instruments to travel to the Moon, with two planned for integration onto an LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle) and one for a future orbital opportunity. The LTV is part of NASA’s efforts to explore the lunar surface as part of the Artemis campaign and is the first crew-driven vehicle to operate on the Moon in more than …

Read More »

Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars

Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars

Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other worlds. In 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 mission brought Mars into American living rooms, where TV sets showed fuzzy black-and-white images of a cratered landscape. The spacecraft took 21 complete pictures — the first …

Read More »

NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping – SciTechDaily

NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping  SciTechDaily NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun  NASA Science (.gov) Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during record-breaking flight  Live Science These are the closest images of the Sun ever seen. NASA’s Sun-grazing spacecraft gets closer than ever before  BBC Sky at Night Magazine …

Read More »