NASA and space agencies from Japan and Russsia hold news conference as upcoming Crew 5 mission aboard a commercial SpaceX craft to the International Space Station approaches. (Aug 4)
Chunks of space debris were reportedly found on farmland in the Australia mountains, and this week NASA and Australian authorities confirmed that the objects are "likely" a scrap of hardware from a SpaceX Dragon capsule that was intentionally jettisoned as the spacecraft reentered the Earth's atmosphere last May.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the Cartwheel Galaxy, some 500 million light-years away. The galaxy was captured using the observatory's NIRCam.
A NASA-funded study is giving scientists insight into how "night-shining clouds" form in the upper atmosphere — and the role that growing space traffic plays in the phenomenon.
For the past five weeks, Perseverance has been focused primarily on supporting and documenting the flights of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter. But the rover has been doing some science work, too.