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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising details about the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) in ...

“We perform something called the TIC, which is the Transportation and Integrity Check,” Laura Poliah, Orion Lead Test Engineer for NASA, said in November 5 interviews on the floor of the O&C ...

This week’s mission is the first time a NASA spacecraft has been powered by European engineering. Artemis is not an all-American mission—it’s global. Orion is made of three main sections.

The Orion spacecraft was designed to help mitigate the effects of cosmic radiation but to find out more, Nasa sent two ...