NASA’s X-59 QueSST Airplane Takes Shape at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
In the high desert of California, some of the most important aircraft in aviation history have been built and flown. NASA’s X-59 QueSST (short for Quiet SuperSonic Technology) is an experimental piloted aircraft designed to…
Hubble Snaps Spiral’s Profile
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope sees galaxies of all shapes, sizes, luminosities and orientations in the cosmos. Sometimes, the telescope gazes at a galaxy oriented sideways — as shown here. The spiral galaxy featured in this Hubble…
Why the Sun Won’t Become a Black Hole
Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it’s too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to end its life as a…
Obscured in the Lunar Highlands?
The Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, attempted a landing Sept. 7 (Sept. 6 in the United States), on a small patch of lunar highland smooth plains between Simpelius N and Manzinus C…
NASA Spacecraft Launches on Mission to Explore Frontier of Space
After successfully launching Thursday night, NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft is in orbit for a first-of-its-kind mission to study a region of space where changes can disrupt communications and…