NASA has signed a Space Act Agreement with a private organization currently raising funds for studies of a space telescope designed to look for habitable planets around a nearby star.
Tuesday's briefing begins with China declaring construction of the world's largest radio telescope complete.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced April 28 that it was giving up on efforts to restore control of its Hitomi astronomy satellite, concluding that the spacecraft was too severely damaged in an incident last month.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is working to restore communications with a new astronomy satellite that malfunctioned March 26, generating debris.
The U.S. National Science Foundation effort has raised concerns among astronomers about the observatory’s future.
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Alessondra" Sondy" Springmann: A journeywoman planetary scientist who stumbled into astronomy in college and followed a winding road that has led her to NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid sample-return mission.
Two NASA astronomy missions put in jeopardy by technical and budget issues have survived their near-death experiences but still must deal with constrained funding, project officials told astronomers.
While the final report is still more than five years away, NASA has effectively kicked off the next astrophysics decadal survey by asking the scientific community to evaluate ideas for the next large mission that the report may recommend NASA pursue in the 2020s.
Manufacturing difficulties plagued major elements of the James Webb Space Telescope this year, forcing prime contractor Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems to rebuild key structural elements declared unfit for flight while continuing to grapple with a persistently problematic cryogenic compressor needed to keep JWST’s infrared sensors cold.
A large ground-based telescope useful for studying orbital debris as well as traditional astronomical targets has been given a second life under a cooperative agreement involving NASA, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, the University of Hawaii and the University of Arizona.
QinetiQ got a 2.3 million-euro contract to supply a baffle for the Euclid space telescope.
The French and Chinese space agencies have agreed to jointly develop a gamma-ray-burst astronomy satellite.
“To find evidence of actual life is going to take another generation of telescopes,” JWST telescope scientist Matt Mountain said.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will monitor dark matter and dark energy and observe transient events such as asteroids.
NASA’s hobbled Kepler spacecraft is once again seeking out strange new worlds under a new 80-day mission to hunt for alien planets.
NASA and DLR are moving ahead with development of a pair of second-generation instruments for SOFIA.
