Tag: The Universe
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NASA’s GUSTO Prepares to Map Space Between the Stars
Editor’s Note: The GUSTO mission successfully launched on a scientific balloon from Antarctica Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. local time (Dec. 31, 1:30 a.m EST). The balloon is floating 128,000 feet above Earth’s surface and can be tracked in real-time on…
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Webb, Hubble Capture Detailed Views of DART Impact
Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have captured views of a unique NASA experiment designed to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid in the world’s first-ever in-space test for…
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10 Things: Going Interstellar
Introduction Humanity’s great leap into interstellar space – the space between the stars – is underway. NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes are both in interstellar space. For the moment, sending humans to the edge of interstellar space, let…
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Why Bennu? 10 Reasons
Launched on Sept. 8, 2016, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft traveled to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to collect a sample of rocks and dust from its surface. This mission put Bennu at…