The jaw-dropping image, taken by the commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission Matthew Dominick on June 3, captured the quick-flash of a weather phenomena known as 'red sprite' lightning.
Meanwhile, NASA itself is asking for help in the hunt for red sprites, even setting up a citizen-crowdsourced database – dubbed ‘Spritacular’ – to which members of the public are urged to ...
On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.
It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...
Below is a closer look at this oddity. Note the tendrils (purple) rising from the thunderstorm (bright white/blue) up toward the flash of the sprite (red), sort of like an electrical puppeteer and ...
Rubicon’s ASCENT chemical propulsion module, called Sprite, is being paired with Massachusetts Institute of Technology electrospray thrusters. The four electrospray thrusters delivered to NASA i ...