Space Station Science Highlights: Week of August 26, 2019
Scientific studies recently conducted by the Expedition 60 crew include a variety of student-designed experiments, research on how bacteria adjust to space and astronaut nutrition, and more. The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship…
SpaceX Dragon Crew Emergency Evacuation Rehearsal
A quick moving storm passes as teams from NASA and SpaceX practice procedures for medical emergency evacuation onboard the GO Searcher ship, Friday, August 15, 2019, in the Atlantic Ocean…
NASA Selects Proposals to Demonstrate SmallSat Technologies to Study Interplanetary Space
NASA has selected two proposals to demonstrate technologies to improve science observations in deep space. The proposals could help NASA develop better models to predict space weather events that can…
NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface
This artist’s illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star. The planet’s surface may be covered mostly in…
Hubble Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet’s trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds…