NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s optical navigation team, as backup to the OSIRIS-REx mission to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, double-checked the primary navigation team’s work, proving the viability of navigation by visual cues. Using…

Auroras, the disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind, are one of the most beautiful and easily observed space phenomena. Now, a special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is…