Using JWST, astronomers confirmed that some proplyds in the Orion Nebula surround brown dwarfs, providing new insights into ...

First observed in 1936, FU Orionis became a hundred times brighter in months and has remained a unique object of study.

Launched in December 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful infrared telescope to date, making it perfectly suited for measuring temperatures of faint objects in the Orion ...

NASA remains in an ongoing test mode to determine what's behind the ablative thermal protective material that chipped away unexpectedly from the Artemis 1 Orion heat shield during its reentry into ...

In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became a hundred ...

For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled astonishing new details about FU Orionis (FU Ori), a young star in the ...

NASA finally knows what caused the erosion of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield following its historic trip to the Moon in 2022, but the space agency is not telling, at least not yet.

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Damage to the heat shield on the Orion spacecraft flown on Artemis 1, as depicted in a NASA Office of Inspector General report. Credit: NASA OIG HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA has determined why the ...

Orion's selfie with Earth and the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA's Orion spacecraft might have successfully traveled to the Moon and back, but its equipment wasn't fully stable throughout the journey.