Lockheed Martin starts building Dark Energy hunter
Lockheed Martin is helping NASA begin the hunt for dark energy, a mysterious force powering the universe’s accelerating expansion. An instrument assembly the company is…
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Lockheed Martin to Build NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft, a Mission to Trojan Asteroids
NASA’s Newest Discovery Mission to Study Asteroids Orbiting with Jupiter DENVER, Jan. 5, 2017 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been selected to design, build and…
NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System
NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar…
NASA Selects Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries
NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme…
First American in Space, John Glenn dies at 95
“Today, the first American to orbit the Earth, NASA astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn, passed away. We mourn this tremendous loss for our nation…
Small Satellites: the next Big thing in space
Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying our changing planet….
Airbus completes first GRACE-FO satellite for NASA/JPL
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has finished construction of the first of the two GRACE-FO (GRACE = Gravity Recovery and…
NASA Flies to Africa to Study Climate Effects of Smoke on Clouds
NASA scientists and two research aircraft are on their way to a unique natural laboratory off the Atlantic coast of southwest Africa to study a…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter (video)
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that…
NASA’s ‘Warp Drive’ Could Really Work, New Study Suggests
Last year, NASA investigated a technology often described as a ‘warp drive’ – and when one of its scientists posted, ‘the anomalous thrust signals remain,’…
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Safely Back on Earth after One-Year Mission
NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Tuesday after a historic 340-day mission aboard the…
NASA Introduces New, Wider Set of Eyes on the Universe
After years of preparatory studies, NASA is formally starting an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe — the Wide Field…