From Nottingham to Nasa - I've reached for the stars

Not many people can follow their dreams to the Moon and back but Susie Allen-Sierpinski is one of them. As a space-obsessed ...

Astronomers Solve Decades-Long Mystery About Saturn’s Spin – “Something Strange Was Happening”

Saturn’s aurora acts as a localized energy source that drives winds and currents in a stable feedback system, producing the illusion of changing rotation.

'Blips' led these Australian backyard astronomers to a world-first planetary discovery

A group of backyard astronomers Jonathan Bradshaw, Renato Langersek and John Broughton were pondering these questions until ...

New Mexico-built rafts to help Artemis II splashdown off California coast

Recovery rafts made by Jack's Plastic Welding in Aztec, New Mexico, will play a vital role in retrieving astronauts from NASA ...

How and When to Watch NASA’s Artemis II Splash Down in Pacific Ocean

NASA will stream video of the spacecraft’s return to Earth starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday. You can watch it on NASA’s YouTube ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Parker Solar Probe Changed How We See the Universe. Now, Their Models Have Found a Home at the Smithsonian

The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in ...

For decades, a Westfield machine shop has helped build NASA’s spacecraft

The shop with 270 employees have made components powering the oxygen system for the four-astronaut crew, the spacecraft’s ...

Tech problems? Even astronauts can’t outrun them

Artemis II’s commander couldn’t get Outlook to work on his personal device, proof that astronauts are just like the rest of ...

Mystery surrounds death of NINTH scientist tied to US secrets as disturbing pattern grows

Another NASA scientist's death is raising questions as a disturbing trend at the agency's Jet Propulsion Lab appears to be ...

How the Artemis II crew trained to observe and photograph the moon: A NASA science team geologist explains

From geology training on Mushuau Innu First Nation territory in Labrador, to a new NASA Science Evaluation Room, Gordon ...
Dalhousie University

Capturing the stars from the roof of the world: Dal‑built camera provides new perspective on the universe

A new telescope located 5,600 meters above sea level in the Chilean Andes will give scientists new insights into how galaxies formed beginning in the early universe and how stars are born in our own ...

Giant hydrogen halos are changing how astronomers view the early universe

Some of the young universe’s biggest structures were hiding in plain sight. Astronomers have now identified more than 33,000 ...