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NASA’s mini BurstCube mission detects its first gamma-ray burst

BurstCube, trailed by another CubeSat named SNOOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation), emerges from the International Space Station on April 18, 2024. Credit: NASA/Matthew Dominick The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion in the universe, according to a recent analysis of observations collected over the last

Luz Catt September 5, 2024

NASA’s EXCITE mission prepared for scientific balloon flight

EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) hangs from a ceiling at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility’s location in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The mission team practiced taking observations ahead of flight by looking out the hanger doors at night. Credit: NASA/Jeanette Kazmierczak Scientists and engineers are ready to fly an infrared mission called EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate

Bong Noren August 23, 2024

NASA’s DART impact permanently changed the shape and orbit of asteroid moon, new study shows

An illustration depicting NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben. When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the moon was significantly deformed—creating a large crater and reshaping it so dramatically that

Rubi Lupo August 23, 2024

NASA’s Juno provides high-definition views of Europa’s icy shell

Editors’ notes This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact-checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread by NASA Jupiter’s moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during the mission’s close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022.

Samatha Michaud May 16, 2024

NASA’s Juno probe makes another close flyby of Io

Processed image taken by JunoCam on Feb. 3rd, 2024, during the probe’s second close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io. Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS The Juno spacecraft has revealed some fascinating things about Jupiter since it began exploring the system on July 4th, 2016. Not only is it the first robotic mission to study Jupiter up close while

Marquis Kucera February 7, 2024

NASA’s GUSTO prepares to map space between the stars

The GUSTO telescope hangs from the hangar crane during telescope pointing tests at the Long Duration Balloon Facility on the Ross Ice Shelf near the U.S. National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on Dec. 6, 2023. Mission specialists were calibrating the star cameras, used to determine the direction of pointing of the telescope. Credit: José

Gaylene Redner December 20, 2023

NASA’s Perseverance rover deciphers ancient history of Martian lake

This 360-degree mosaic from the “Airey Hill” location inside Jezero Crater was generated using 993 individual images taken by the Perseverance Mars rover’s Mastcam-Z from Nov. 3-6. The rover remained parked at Airey Hill for several weeks during solar conjunction. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Marking its 1,000th Martian day on the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover recently

Blythe Kucera December 14, 2023

NASA’s Chandra rewinds story of great eruption of the 1840s

Credit: NASA / SAO / GSFC / M. Corcoran et al. Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have learned important new details about an eruption from Eta Carinae witnessed on Earth in the mid-19th century. Chandra data spanning decades has been combined into a new movie that contains frames

Alejandro Noren September 27, 2023

NASA’s tale of two towers: Both Artemis mobile launchers see action

Credit: CC0 Public Domain NASA’s Artemis program has one tower standing and one just getting started. Mobile launcher 1 (ML-1), which endured some significant damage after its use on the Artemis I mission last November, has been undergoing repairs and enhancements in preparation for its reuse on next year’s planned Artemis II flight, the first

Raleigh Drews August 18, 2023

NASA’s Juno is getting ever closer to Jupiter’s moon Io

From left, Ganymede, Europa, and Io – the three Jovian moons that NASA’s Juno mission has flown past – as well as Jupiter are shown in a photo illustration created from data collected by the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager. Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Image processing: Kevin M. Gill (CC BY); Thomas Thomopoulos (CC BY) The spinning

Laine Motsinger July 27, 2023