Portal origin URL: 2021 Disasters: A Look BackPortal origin nid: 476292Published: Thursday, December 30, 2021 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: In 2021, Hurricane Ida left over 1 million people without power, tornadoes tore across the American Midwest, volcanoes forced people to evacuate their homes, wildfires covered the American West and...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday, December 25. Follow its deployment here. News Article Type: Homepage ArticlesPublished: Monday, December 27, 2021 -...

Portal origin URL: NASA's Webb Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant WorldsPortal origin nid: 476247Published: Saturday, December 25, 2021 - 08:10Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport.Portal image: The James Webb Space...

Portal origin URL: Ahead of Webb Launch, NASA is Watching the Weather in SpacePortal origin nid: 476218Published: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: With Webb heading to the launchpad, scientists and NASA’s Moon-to-Mars Space Weather Analysis Office are monitoring space weather conditions, assessing risk in three...

In 2021, NASA completed its busiest year of development yet in low-Earth orbit, made history on Mars, continued to make progress on its Artemis plans for the Moon, tested new technologies for a supersonic aircraft, finalized launch preparations for the next-generation space telescope, and much more – all while safely operating during a pandemic and welcoming new leadership under the...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Lends a Helping HandPortal origin nid: 476161Published: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Hubble has supported several of NASA’s most important missions and worked with other space- and ground-based observatories to further our understanding of the universe.Portal image: Hubble above...

Portal origin URL: Views of Comet Leonard from Two Sun-Watching SpacecraftPortal origin nid: 476179Published: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Ahead of Comet Leonard's close pass of the Sun on Jan. 3, 2022, two Sun-observing spacecraft captured these views of the comet.Portal image: side by side comparison...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s DAILI CubeSat to Study Complex Atmospheric CompositionPortal origin nid: 476158Published: Monday, December 20, 2021 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The Daily Atmospheric Ionospheric Limb Imager (DAILI) CubeSat is scheduled to launch aboard SpaceX’s CRS-24, the 24th cargo resupply mission for NASA to the...

Portal origin URL: How NASA’s Psyche Mission Will Explore an Unexplored WorldPortal origin nid: 476163Published: Monday, December 20, 2021 - 12:35Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: psyce20211219Portal image: An illustration, created in March 2021, of NASA’s Psyche...

Portal origin URL: NASA Sets Coverage, Invites Public to View Webb Telescope LaunchPortal origin nid: 476143Published: Saturday, December 18, 2021 - 10:20Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA will provide coverage of prelaunch, launch, and postlaunch activities for the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most powerful space science...

Portal origin URL: NASA Satellite Data Used to Assess Tornado Damage, Understand StormsPortal origin nid: 476141Published: Friday, December 17, 2021 - 16:30Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: As people across the Midwestern U.S. take stock of the devastation from a trail of tornadoes that blew across the region on Dec. 10, 2021, data and images from...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Juno Spacecraft ‘Hears’ Jupiter’s MoonPortal origin nid: 476133Published: Friday, December 17, 2021 - 11:04Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: An audio track collected during Jupiter mission’s Ganymede flyby offers a dramatic ride-along. It is one of the highlights mission scientists shared in a briefing at American...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Views a Galaxy With an Explosive PastPortal origin nid: 476039Published: Friday, December 17, 2021 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a side-on view of NGC 3568, a barred spiral galaxy roughly 57 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation...

In late December, SpaceX-24 will deliver a payload to the International Space Station. Three new experiments that will help scientists better understand specific biological and physical phenomena will be on board. “It’s really exciting when we get to conduct new investigations aboard the Space Station,” said Dr. Craig Kundrot, Director of NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences...

Portal origin URL: Watching the Blink of a Star to Size Up Asteroids for NASA’s Lucy MissionPortal origin nid: 476064Published: Thursday, December 16, 2021 - 09:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Observing occultations from Earth is one of the tools scientists use for gathering precise information about the size and shape of Lucy’s target...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches a Total of 30 Minutes Aloft Portal origin nid: 476056Published: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - 13:28Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: With its recent 17th flight, the Red Planet rotorcraft reaches an airborne milestone the team never considered achievable. Its 18th flight is scheduled for no...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Makes Surprising Discoveries Portal origin nid: 476044Published: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - 11:51Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The findings by rover scientists highlight the diversity of samples geologists and future scientists associated with the agency’s Mars Sample Return program will...

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed,...

Portal origin URL: NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing New DiscoveriesPortal origin nid: 475974Published: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 - 12:01Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the...

Portal origin URL: NASA Scientist Kelly Korreck on the Journey to the Sun, and What It Takes to Get TherePortal origin nid: 475771Published: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 - 11:59Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA Program Scientist Kelly Korreck shared some lessons she’s learned throughout her career and explained why Parker Solar Probe — like so...

PROJECT Rad-Bio-App SNAPSHOT A NASA-sponsored team has developed a discovery environment that enables researchers to explore information on radiation exposure from numerous spaceflight experiments and extend our understanding of how radiation affects life forms in space. Rad-Bio-App team members at work in the University of Wisconsin’s Gilroy Lab. Pictured Left to right: Dr. Richard...

Portal origin URL: NASA Selects 4 CubeSats for Space Weather Tech DevelopmentPortal origin nid: 475965Published: Monday, December 13, 2021 - 17:15Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Four CubeSats – CubIXSS, SunCET, DYNAGLO, and WindCube – have been selected by NASA’s Heliophysics Flight Opportunities in Research and Technology program in...

Portal origin URL: NASA-NOAA Tech Will Aid Marine Oil Spill ResponsePortal origin nid: 475968Published: Monday, December 13, 2021 - 14:45Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists are teaming up to test remote sensing technology for use in oil spill response.Portal image: An oil slick on...