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Rare Double Asteroid Revealed by NASA, Observatories

Three of the world’s largest radio telescopes team up to show a rare double asteroid. 2017 YE5 is only the fourth binary near-Earth asteroid ever observed in which the two bodies are roughly the same size, and not touching. More: https://go.nasa.gov/2zxrh7U This video shows radar images of the pair gathered by Goldstone Solar System Radar, […]

Space Experts Discuss the Search for Life in the Universe at NASA

NASA space-based observatories are making unprecedented new discoveries and revealing worlds never before seen. During a televised panel discussion of …

Astronauts at Work Outside the Space Station on This Week @NASA – March 30, 2018

Our astronauts at work outside the space station, preparing for launch of our next planet-hunting mission, and finding exploding stars – a few of the stories to tell you about, This Week at NASA! This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2018_0330_Astronauts%20at%20Work%20Outside%20the%20Space%20Station%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20March%2030,%202018.html

"Ice Team" Inspects NASA's Shuttle Atlantis During STS-132 Launch Countdown

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the Final Inspection Team, also known as the “Ice Team,” performs a walkdown of Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39A during space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-132 launch countdown on May 14. The six-member team walks on every level of the pad’s fixed service structure, inspecting the shuttle, external fuel […]

“Ice Team” Inspects NASA’s Shuttle Atlantis During STS-132 Launch Countdown

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the Final Inspection Team, also known as the “Ice Team,” performs a walkdown of Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39A during space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-132 launch countdown on May 14. The six-member team walks on every level of the pad’s fixed service structure, inspecting the shuttle, external fuel […]

NASA Tests RS-25 Flight Engine for Space Launch System

Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Oct. 19 completed a hot-fire test of RS-25 rocket engine E2063, a flight engine for NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Engine E2063 is scheduled to help power SLS on its Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2), the first flight of the new rocket to carry humans. This […]

New Horizons science update on This Week @NASA – July 24, 2015

A July 24 update at NASA headquarters, featured new surprising imagery and science results from the recent flyby of Pluto, by the New Horizons spacecraft. These included an image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager or (LORRI) – looking back at Pluto – hours after the historic flyby that revealed a haze in the planet’s […]

The first uncrewed Commercial Crew Flight Test is complete on This Week @NASA – March 8, 2019

The first uncrewed Commercial Crew Flight Test is complete, Vice President Pence calls the space station, and the station’s next crew prepares for launch … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2019_0308_The%20first%20uncrewed%20Commercial%20Crew%20Flight%20Test%20is%20complete%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20March%208,%202019.html

NASA Explorers S3 E1: Seeing Through Smoke

To understand fires on Earth, you need a broad view — spanning from the poles to the equator and looking from high above the planet to down deep under the soil. That’s where #NASAExplorers come in! With satellites, with airplanes, with their own hands and with a data record spanning decades, Explorers are studying how […]

Kepler – A Search for Habitable Planets

“Kepler is a critical component in NASA’s broader efforts to ultimately find and study planets where Earth-like conditions may be present,” said Jon Morse, the Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “The planetary census Kepler takes will be very important for understanding the frequency of Earth-size planets in our galaxy and planning future […]