NASA’s next-gen Advanced Composite Solar Sail System that could help revolutionize space travel for generations to come. Put simply, solar sails utilize the pressure of sunlight for propulsion, either angling toward or away from the Sun so that photons bounce off the reflective sail to boost a spacecraft.
Set for release on July 12, 2024, ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ stars Scarlett Johansson (Kelly Jones) and Channing Tatum (Cole Davis). It takes place during the 1960s space race and features Johansson as a marketing executive contracted by NASA to create a fake moon landing in case the real mission fails.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes tilted spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Apus. This galaxy is known for its heavy star-forming activity, as well as hosting an active galactic nucleus at its core.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover on their most ambitious exploration mission yet to search for past and present signs of life on the Red Planet.
While not as intriguing as a galactic question mark, this peculiar Bok globule is just as mysterious. Captured by NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the Bok globule you see here is basically opaque, dark knots of gas and dust that are absorbing light in the center of the nearby emission nebula NGC 281.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover collected a rock sample from the Jezero Crater and named it ‘Comet Geyser’. Why? The core taken by the rover was awash in water for an extended period of time in the distant past, perhaps as part of an ancient Martian beach.
In addition to DARPA’s lunar railroad, you’ll also be seeing a next-generation Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) on the Moon within the next two decades. NASA selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to develop a vehicle that will be able to transport astronauts around the lunar surface during the agency’s Artemis campaign.
Engineers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and their collaborators announced that construction on the LSST Camera is complete. This 3,200-megapixel camera will help researchers observe our universe in unprecedented detail including their quest to understand dark energy.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of extreme starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82), which is located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. At first glance, this galaxy is somewhat compact in size, yet it hosts a frenzy of star formation activity.