Outer Space

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before: Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by gravity, and shaped like a spinning top

STS-41-B was NASA's tenth Space Shuttle mission and the fourth flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on 3 February 1984 and landed on 11 February 1984, after deploying two communications satellites. It was also notable for including the first untethered spacewalk. More Space Shuttle Launches and Landings https://rumble.com/playlists/Ef58RRInJIA

What Is the Habitable Zone? There's a helpful concept we use to help understand what distance from a given star you might expect to find planets with liquid water on their surface – liquid water being essential for life as we know it. It's called the habitable zone. Every star has a habitable zone, but where that zone lies is different for stars of different sizes and brightness.

STS-9 (also referred to Spacelab 1) was the ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the sixth mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Launched on 28 November 1983, the ten-day mission carried the first Spacelab laboratory module into orbit More Space Shuttle Launches and Landings https://rumble.com/playlists/Ef58RRInJIA

STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch and night landing of the Space Shuttle program More Space Shuttle Launches and Landings https://rumble.com/playlists/Ef58RRInJIA

What You Need to Know About Europa Deep beneath the crust of Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa lies a massive liquid water ocean Europa Overview Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons. It's the sixth-closest moon to the planet. Europa and Jupiter’s three other largest moons – Io, Ganymede, and Callisto – were the first moons discovered beyond Earth. They are called the Galilean moons after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who first observed them with a homemade telescope in January 1610. Europa is primarily made of silicate rock and has a water-ice crust and probably an iron-nickel core. It has a very thin atmosphere, composed primarily of oxygen. Cracks and streaks striate its surface, but craters are relatively few. Scientists are almost certain that hidden beneath the icy surface of Europa is a saltwater ocean with about twice as much water as Earth’s global ocean. Europa may be one of the most promising places in our solar system to find present-day environments suitable for some form of life beyond Earth. Scientists believe a saltwater ocean lies beneath its icy shell, holding twice as much water as Earth's global ocean. It also may have the chemical elements that are key ingredients to life. NASA is launching its Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 10 2024, to determine whether there are places below Europa's surface that could support life. The spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at Europa in 2030.

STS-7: 7th Space Shuttle Launch & Landing June 18, 1983 STS-7 was NASA's seventh Space Shuttle mission, and the second mission for the Space Shuttle Challenger. During the mission, Challenger deployed several satellites into orbit. The shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center on June 18, 1983, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on June 24, 1983. STS-7 carried Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut. More Space Shuttle Launches and Landings https://rumble.com/playlists/Ef58RRInJIA

Experience Zero-G in HD, through the eyes of space station Expedition 13 astronauts Jeff Williams and Pavel Vinogradov

STS-6: 6th Space Shuttle Launch Challenger's first launch & landing (4-4-83) More Space Shuttle Launches and Landings https://rumble.com/playlists/Ef58RRInJIA

STS-5 was the fifth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on November 11, 1982, and landed five days later on November 16, 1982. STS-5 was the first Space Shuttle mission to deploy communications satellites into orbit, and the first officially "operational" Space Shuttle mission. More Space Shuttle Launches and Landings https://rumble.com/playlists/Ef58RRInJIA

STS-4, the final space shuttle test flight, June 2, 1982. Landing video includes Reagan's speech and Challenger's departure to KSC aboard the 747 More Space Shuttle Launches and Landings https://rumble.com/playlists/Ef58RRInJIA

STS-3 was NASA's third Space Shuttle mission, and was the third mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on March 22, 1982, and landed eight days later on March 30, 1982. The mission, crewed by Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton, involved extensive orbital endurance testing of the Columbia itself, as well as numerous scientific experiments. STS-3 was the first shuttle launch with an unpainted external tank, and the only mission to land at the White Sands Space Harbor near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The orbiter was forced to land at White Sands due to flooding at its originally planned landing site, Edwards Air Force Base. More Space Shuttle Launches and Landings https://rumble.com/playlists/Ef58RRInJIA

STS-2 was the second Space Shuttle mission conducted by NASA, and the second flight of the orbiter Columbia. The mission, crewed by Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly, launched on November 12, 1981, and landed two days later on November 14, 1981. More Space Shuttle Launches and Landings https://rumble.com/playlists/Ef58RRInJIA

A major explosion on the sun hurling a coronal mass ejection into space. See the “full halo CME” as it spreads out on all side. Feb 7, 2024

NASA | The Mysterious Holes in the Atmosphere on Venus The European Space Agency's Venus Express mission saw something it could not explain. It appeared that there were holes on the nightside of Venus' ionosphere

Aurora are colorful lights in the night time sky primarily appearing in Earth's polar regions. But what causes them?

Sounds of Saturn: Hear Radio Emissions of the Planet and Its Moon Enceladus New research from the up-close Grand Finale orbits of NASA’s Cassini mission shows a surprisingly powerful interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its moon Enceladus

The number of sunspots increases and decreases over time in a regular, approximately 11-year cycle, called the sunspot cycle. The exact length of the cycle can vary. It has been as short as eight years and as long as fourteen, but the number of sunspots always increases over time, and then returns to low again.

NASA Explorers Season 6, Episode 2: Bennu’s Surprises When it comes to space exploration, expect the unexpected. As OSIRIS-REx approached asteroid Bennu, scientists were surprised to find a loosely packed rubble pile

NASA Explorers Season 6, Episode 1: Launc It’s not rockets and satellites that make NASA soar. It’s people. Go inside the space agency and follow the pioneers, risk-takers and experts at the frontline of exploration

Apollo 17 Liftoff from Moon - December 14, 1972 Lift-off of Apollo 17 Lunar Module ascent stage is captured by a television camera mounted on the lunar rover which the crew parked about 145 meters east of the spacecraft.

NASA's Newly Released Images Of MARS (2023)

Our sister planet Venus could serve as a model for many exoplanets soon to be discovered in the upcoming era of new space telescopes, such as James Webb and others. Venus may have been far more Earth-like than its present climate state, which is inhospitable and more like that inside a pressure-cooker oven with surface temperatures of 450 C (842 F) and pressures equivalent to 1,000 meters (0.62 miles) under the sea. How did Venus evolve from a past "habitable" state to its present one, and how does that help us understand our own destiny?

Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies.

The search for ancient life. Planetary evolution. Preparing for future human exploration. There are so many reasons to study the Red Planet.