This week in 1977, the first of three spacecraft in NASA’s High Energy Astronomy Observatory program, HEAO-1, was launched from…
Several fires continue raging on Portugal’s mainland in addition to those on nearby Madeira Island. Smoke from several of those…
Smoke from several large fires burning on Portugal’s Madeira Island were seen blowing over the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 10…
Two cosmic structures show evidence for a remarkable change in behavior of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy.
50th Anniversary of Lunar Orbiter 1 Mission
There are several large fires burning on Portugal’s Madeira Island and mainland and NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured an image…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), shown here in a conceptual illustration, will identify exoplanets orbiting the brightest stars just…
Optics engineer Greg Balonek prepares a TESS flight lens for modal testing at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Greg Allen, lead thermal engineer for the TESS instrument at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, works on TESS flight lenses. In this…
The TESS flight star tracker, provided by DTU Space for Orbital ATK, will monitor relative locations of stars and tell…
