The Webb Space Telescope’s Journey into the Unknown
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful telescope released into space. Read more about the JWST and its recent accomplishments, written by Camila Garcia.
SpaceX’s Historical Falcon 9 Rocket Launch
By Fabiha Faruque For humanity in the advent of space exploration, the past three days have been a time of wonder, anticipation, and exuberant vitality. For the first time in the United States since 2011, an orbital spacecraft — SpaceX Crew Dragon — was launched this past Saturday from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying two…
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Race to Mars: NASA vs Space X
By Rozany Guzman In 2010, Obama passed the NASA Authorization Act and assigned NASA to expand human footprints to the other sides of the world. Following this, NASA focused on the “Journey to Mars”. NASA is aiming to have humans on Mars by the 2030’s, but they’re largely criticized for not having an organized deadline,…
Cassini’s Historic Grand Finale in Saturn
By Valeria Bula The end of a historic 20 year scientific endeavor has arrived as Cassini became a part of the perplexing and beautiful planet it once studied. Contact was lost with Cassini after it completed it’s deliberate “death dive” into Saturn’s atmosphere at 6:30 am Eastern Time on Friday, with NASA confirming it’s demise…
Rediscovering the Past: Hidden Figures
By Nathalie Del Valle Hidden Figures, based on the true stories of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, brings forth the hardships of three black women working for NASA. Being the first African-American women to reach their respective achievements, they faced many challenges. Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson were one of the main contributors…
Sunday Night’s Moon, Sun, and Earth Show
By Daniela Morales This past Sunday the Sun, the Earth, and the moon lined up perfectly for about one hour and 12 minutes forming the famous Super Blood Moon. The phenomenon started off at 10:11 pm ET and peaked at 10:47 pm ET with the whole sphere showered in a reddish hue. “You’re basically seeing…