The fantasy creations of the “Star Wars” universe are strikingly similar to real planets in our own Milky Way galaxy.
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NASA astronauts “use the force” every time they launch … from a certain point of view. We have real-world droids and ion engines. We’ve seen dual-sun planets like Tatooine and a moon that eerily resembles the Death Star.
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From exoplanets to supernovae discoveries, a spacecraft’s second life continues to shine as K2.
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Now in its eighth observing campaign, the Kepler spacecraft continues to operate beautifully as the K2 mission.
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For the first time, the shock breakout of a supernova has been caught
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Teaming up on a global experiment in exoplanet observation, NASA’s K2 mission and Earth-based observatories on six continents will use gravitational microlensing to search for exoplanets that are too distant and dark to detect any other way.
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NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has been recovered and, as of 8:30 a.m. PDT today, it is back on the job as the K2 mission searching for exoplanets. K2’s new gravitational microlensing campaign has officially begun.
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Most of the cosmic rays that we detect at Earth originated relatively recently in nearby clusters of massive stars, according to new results from NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft.
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NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, who lived and worked nearly five months on the International Space Station as a flight engineer, will make multiple appearances across Washington April 25-29 to share highlights from his 141-day mission in space.
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Twenty-five student teams from across the country will brave the depths of the world’s largest swimming pool April-June to test their research in simulated microgravity as part of NASA’s Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) activity.
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