January 2024

Overview for NASA’s Northrop Grumman 20th Commercial Resupply Mission

NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 12:29 p.m. EST on Monday, Jan. 29, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.

Posted January 26, 2024

NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2023 Annual Report

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2023 annual report Thursday examining the agency’s safety performance, accomplishments, and challenges over the past year. The report highlights 2023 activities and observations on NASA’s: In 2023, NASA continued to make meaningful progr

Posted January 25, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Honors Fallen During Day of Remembrance

Family members of fallen astronauts Kathie Scobee Fulgham, Lowell Grissom, Sheryl Chaffee, and Karen Bassett Stevenson place a wreath at the Space Mirror Memorial at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, during the agency’s Day of Remembrance.

Posted January 25, 2024

Ingenuity (Helicopter)

Aeronautics

Drones & You

Missions

NASA Aircraft

After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends

NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan.

Posted January 25, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

The Universe

Hubble Captures a Faint Bridge of Stars

One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-light-year-long bridge of stars and gas that stretches between two of the galaxies. The galaxies have passed close enough together that their mutual gravity created this cosmic […]

Posted January 25, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Advanced Air Mobility

Aeronautics

Air Mobility Pathfinders project

Airspace Operations and Safety Program

Ames Research Center

Langley Research Center

NASA Autonomous Flight Software Successfully Used in Air Taxi Stand-Ins

In late October, two research helicopters from the manufacturer Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, made a dozen test flights over Long Island Sound, Connecticut taking care to avoid other aircraft in the area around them.

Posted January 25, 2024

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Studying Exoplanets

The Universe

NASA’s Hubble Finds Water Vapor in Small Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed the smallest exoplanet where water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere. At only approximately twice Earth’s diameter, the planet GJ 9827d could be an example of potential planets with water-rich atmospheres elsewhere in our galaxy.

Posted January 25, 2024

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Waves

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)

Stellar-mass Black Holes

Supermassive Black Holes

NASA Collaborating on European-led Gravitational Wave Observatory in Space

The first space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves has passed a major review and will proceed to the construction of flight hardware. On Jan. 25, ESA (European Space Agency), announced the formal adoption of LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, to its mission lineup, with launch slated for the mid-2030s.

Posted January 25, 2024

Earth's Moon

Artemis 3

Shrinking Moon Causing Moonquakes and Faults Near Lunar South Pole

As NASA continues to make progress toward sending astronauts to the lunar South Pole region with its Artemis campaign, data from a NASA-funded study is helping scientists better understand this strategic part of the Moon.

Posted January 25, 2024

NASA History

40 Years Ago: President Reagan Directs NASA to Build a Space Station

On Jan. 25, 1984, President Ronald W. Reagan directed NASA to build a permanently inhabited Earth orbiting space station within a decade. The President’s announcement turned years of NASA studies into a real program.

Posted January 25, 2024