Meteorite hunters race to Ohio after space rock crashes down to Earth

Travelling at approximately 72,420 kilometres per hour, the meteoroid, confirmed by NASA to be nearly 1.8 metres in diameter, generated a sonic boom ...

Meteorite hunters scour Ohio for fragments of 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton (6,350 kilograms) space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling ...

NASA fires up RS-25 Artemis moon rocket engine test for 500 seconds

NASA fired up RS-25 engine No. 20001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The test lasted about "eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same ...

New Orlando Museum of Art exhibit journeys through time and space

Dennis Scholl’s artwork on view at Orlando Museum of Art is inspired by NASA and space, but also serves as a voyage through ...

Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let’s be hasty

Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a serious investment in launch infrastructure at a spaceport ...
Opinion

The moon's going to get crowded. We should protect our heritage on it while we still can

In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made object to reach our closest celestial neighbor. In the decades since, we have been leaving footprints—both literally ...
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes a Model Debut at National Air and Space Museum

A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the ...
PRIMETIMER

NASA places James Webb telescope test structure and Parker Solar Probe model on permanent display at Smithsonian museum

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Optical Telescope Element Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe models are now on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center, providing insight into testing ...

NASA day held at Huntington Children’s Museum

Kids got the chance to paint a planet, make a mini-planetarium, and learn about space pioneer Katherine Johnson, who was from West Virginia.
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum Welcomes James Webb Space Telescope’s Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe to Collection

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

Experience NASA's history at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Explore NASA's rich history and even feel the rumble of a launch at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
WFMZ-TV

Reading Public Museum planetarium showcases NASA images of deep space

READING, Pa. - The Neag Planetarium of the Reading Public Museum made the list of the few planetariums across the country to get a sneak peek at new images of deep space. Those images are coming from ...