/tags/nasa NASA en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:12:51 GMT /science/2025-03-19/firefly-aerospace-cedar-park-tx-moon-robot-sunset-lunar-lander The Cedar Park company's robot spent 14 days on the moon, the equivalent of one lunar day. Firefly says it's the longest commercial mission on the moon to date. Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:12:51 GMT /science/2025-03-19/firefly-aerospace-cedar-park-tx-moon-robot-sunset-lunar-lander Kailey Hunt /science/2025-03-03/firefly-aerospace-blue-ghost-lunar-landing-moon-cedar-park-tx The spacecraft will spend the next couple weeks helping NASA run science experiments on the lunar surface. Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:10:46 GMT /science/2025-03-03/firefly-aerospace-blue-ghost-lunar-landing-moon-cedar-park-tx Kailey Hunt /energy-environment/2024-11-14/stargazers-can-see-the-final-supermoon-of-the-year-this-weekend The next supermoon � which appears larger and brighter than a regular full moon due to its proximity to Earth � will not be visible for nearly a year. Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:43:38 GMT /energy-environment/2024-11-14/stargazers-can-see-the-final-supermoon-of-the-year-this-weekend Chandelis Duster /science/2022-12-26/how-the-james-webb-space-telescope-transformed-astronomy-this-year One year ago, on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched. Since it began collecting data, it has captured - in stunning detail - previously unobservable stars, planets and galaxies. Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:35:47 GMT /science/2022-12-26/how-the-james-webb-space-telescope-transformed-astronomy-this-year Kai McNamee, Mallory Yu /science/2022-09-27/move-over-bruce-willis-nasa-crashed-into-an-asteroid-to-test-planetary-defense NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a test of planetary defense. Now it will determine whether the mission was able to alter the asteroid's course. Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:05:43 GMT /science/2022-09-27/move-over-bruce-willis-nasa-crashed-into-an-asteroid-to-test-planetary-defense Nell Greenfieldboyce /science/2022-08-23/nasas-james-webb-telescope-has-taken-new-images-of-jupiters-moons-rings-and-more The telescope uses a camera with filters that can make a color map out of infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:37:03 GMT /science/2022-08-23/nasas-james-webb-telescope-has-taken-new-images-of-jupiters-moons-rings-and-more Ayana Archie /science/2022-07-11/nasas-james-webb-telescope-reveals-the-universe-as-weve-never-seen-it-before NASA's $10 billion new telescope showed the world something remarkable today: an image of some of the first galaxies to form in the universe. Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:06:15 GMT /science/2022-07-11/nasas-james-webb-telescope-reveals-the-universe-as-weve-never-seen-it-before Joe Palca, Jaclyn Diaz /science/2022-06-13/a-strawberry-supermoon-will-rise-on-tuesday-heres-how-to-watch June's full moon gets its nickname from the strawberry harvesting season in the Northeastern U.S. It also happens to be at its closest distance to Earth in its orbit, which makes it a supermoon. Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:25:31 GMT /science/2022-06-13/a-strawberry-supermoon-will-rise-on-tuesday-heres-how-to-watch Rachel Treisman /news/2022-04-19/nasa-advisers-call-for-a-visit-to-uranus-plus-more-science-during-moon-landings NASA should send probes to the ice giant planet of Uranus and to a moon of Saturn where conditions could be right for life. Those are some of the recommendations in a new report to the space agency. Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:38:09 GMT /news/2022-04-19/nasa-advisers-call-for-a-visit-to-uranus-plus-more-science-during-moon-landings Nell Greenfieldboyce /science/2022-03-22/there-are-more-than-5-000-confirmed-planets-beyond-our-solar-system-nasa-says These so-called exoplanets include rocky worlds similar in size to Earth, gas giants larger than Jupiter and even"'mini-Neptunes." Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:11:05 GMT /science/2022-03-22/there-are-more-than-5-000-confirmed-planets-beyond-our-solar-system-nasa-says Joe Hernandez