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This week NASA's newest astronauts graduated from their training on the 5th of March. The group of astronauts consists of twelve people, with two from the United Arab Emirates. The twelve were chosen from a group of over twelve thousand applicants and were selected for training in 2021,

Mar 6, 2024 • 7 mins

At 03:53 am, Universal Coordinated Time, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A with Crew Dragon Endeavor atop of it carrying four astronauts onboard for the Crew-8 mission. The four astronauts are Commander Matthew Dominick, Pilot Michael Barratt, Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, and Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin.

Mar 4, 2024 • 5 mins

Early on the morning of the 8th of February, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, located in Florida. The rocket was carrying NASA's PACE spacecraft to a sun-synchronous orbit where it will perform its study of the Earth's

Feb 8, 2024 • 3 mins

NASA announced late on the 25th of January that its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, would no longer fly. This comes after Ingenuity made an emergency landing during its seventy-second flight. Ingenuity made its first flight back on the 19th of April 2021 after arriving on Mars with the Perseverance rover on

Jan 25, 2024 • 1 min

NASA has announced today, the 9th of January 2024, that the Artemis 2 and 3 missions have been delayed. This information was announced in a media teleconference hosted by NASA with Bill Nelson, the administrator of NASA, Jim Free, the Associate administrator of NASA, Catherine Koerner, Associate Administrator for Exploration

Jan 9, 2024 • 2 mins

Disclaimer: This article was written on the 22nd of December 2023 so some information may be outdated. This article is intended as a general explanation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA. What is NASA? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the independent agency of the United

Dec 22, 2023 • 2 mins

Since the end of the Apollo program, NASA has been no stranger to sending robotic explorers to planets and moons to perform science instead of crews. Today, the agency is looking into potentially its most ambitious robot explorer to date. The Dragonfly spacecraft is NASA's planned robotic explorer

Dec 7, 2023 • 3 mins

On Wednesday, November 15th, astronomers made an intriguing discovery regarding certain planets beyond our solar system. It appears that these worlds are gradually losing their atmospheres, causing them to shrink in size. Interestingly, this phenomenon is not a result of forceful winds from their stars, but rather a consequence of

Nov 20, 2023 • 3 mins

By utilizing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have successfully determined the dimensions of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet that undergoes a transit event across a neighbouring star. This breakthrough enables further exploration into the possible atmospheric composition of this rocky celestial body. In 2022, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet

Nov 18, 2023 • 2 mins

Using NASA telescopes, astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery by identifying the farthest black hole ever observed in X-rays. A group of scientists successfully detected the distinctive mark of an expanding black hole, a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang. By merging information from NASA's Chandra

Nov 16, 2023 • 2 mins

Recently astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara completed NASA's fourth all-female spacewalk aboard the International Space Station. Jasmin Moghbeli wore the spacesuit with red stripes for the spacewalk with Loral O'Hara wearing the unmarked spacesuit. Both astronauts spent six hours and forty-two minutes outside

Nov 3, 2023 • 2 mins