University of California

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — will launch in early November

NASA's first multiple-satellite mission to another planet will map Mars' magnetic field and atmosphere in 3D, laying the ...

Meet Blue and Gold: NASA’s first twin satellites bound for Mars

ESCAPADE is overseen by the University of California Berkeley, who named the spacecraft’s onboard satellites Blue and Gold ...
SpaceNews

Sceye wins NASA award for stratospheric Earth observations

A company developing stratospheric platforms for telecommunications has won a NASA award to use that platform for environmental monitoring.

China Beats NASA to Capture and Release First Close-Up Image of Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas

China became the first to capture and publicly release close-up images of interstellar object 3I/Atlas ahead of NASA, ...

Biden to tap former U.S. senator and astronaut to lead NASA, sources say

President Joe Biden has tapped former Democratic senator and astronaut Bill Nelson to run the U.S. space agency NASA, according to two people familiar with the decision.

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear

Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

3I/ATLAS Hype Debunked—NASA Explains Why It Won't Collide With Earth

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is passing safely through our solar system. Learn about its discovery, its distant path, and why ...

3I/ATLAS Update: NASA Confirms It's Rich in Carbon Dioxide—But Why?

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is forcing scientists to rethink our understanding of comet formation. Unlike typical comets ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Who Is the Man Who Discovered the Universe?

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...
Yahoo

NASA’s Hubble Telescope spots white dwarf consuming Pluto-like feature

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has captured evidence of a white dwarf star consuming the remnants of a Pluto-like object - a scenario that may predict what will happen to planets in our own ...
Mashable

In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...