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According to NASA, 2019 Was the Second Hottest Year on Record
NASA and the NOAA just announced that 2019 was the second hottest year on record. It barely edged out 2016,…
SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule Nails In-Flight Abort Test! Next Stop, the ISS!
SpaceX nailed the in-flight abort test of its Crew Dragon capsule this weekend, putting them one step closer to sending…
Crew Dragon Abort Test is Scheduled for Saturday Morning
On Saturday morning, Jan. 18th, 2020, SpaceX and NASA will be conducting the in-flight abort test of the Crew Dragon,…
Balloon-Based Cosmic Ray Observatory is Now on its Second Trip Around Antarctica
The SuperTIGER-2 flight just completed its second tour around Antarctica in its mission to determine the origin and nature of…
This Simulation Shows what We’ll be Able to See with WFIRST
NASA has given us a taste of what the WFIRST will be able to see when it takes to space,…
Starliner Launches But it Can’t Reach the Station
Boeing's Starliner crew capsule launched successfully, but a mishap prevented it from docking with the ISS. The ship is undamaged…
NASA Will Be Building a Quiet, Supersonic Aircraft: the X-59
NASA's X-Plane Program has been around for 70 years. Over the course of those decades, the agency has developed a…
Astronomers Map the Surface of a Pulsar
Using NICER data, two teams of researchers were able to map the surface of a pulsar for the first time…
Mars Has Auroras Too, We Just Can’t See Them
Our eyes can't see them, but Martian auroras are there, and more commonplace than we once thought. The Martian auroras…
The Site Has Been Chosen! Here’s Where OSIRIS-REx is Going To Take a Sample from Bennu
NASA has chosen the sampling site for its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. After narrowing it down to four potential sites and examining…