Space

NASA Cites FOIA Exemption to Withhold James Webb Briefing Content Despite Public Hearing

In September 2024, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was filed with NASA seeking records of congressional briefings on…

September 3, 2025

NASA Denies Existence of Classified Briefings on James Webb Telescope Discoveries

In recent weeks, rumors spread rapidly on social media suggesting that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) had made an…

October 9, 2024

Lockheed Martin to Build Advanced GeoXO Satellites for NOAA Under NASA Contract

In a significant advancement for Earth observation and environmental monitoring, NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

June 18, 2024

Gliese 12 b: A New Temperate Exoplanet Found Just 40 Light-Years Away

Astronomers using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a new planet that lies between the sizes of Earth…

May 23, 2024

Preliminary Analysis of Luna 9 Photography, June 1966

The document is a declassified report from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) titled "Preliminary Analysis of Luna-9 Photography" (NPIC/R-5017/66) dated…

March 8, 2024

NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water

The following is NASA press release 23-115, and is archived here for reference: Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu…

October 11, 2023

SR-183 Lunar Observatory Program

The Cold War era was marked by a race between the United States and the Soviet Union to assert dominance…

September 2, 2023

“Confirmation of Interstellar Object” Memorandum and Related Documents

On March 1, 2022, Lt. General John E. Shaw, Deputy Commander of U.S. Space Command, wrote a memorandum for Dr.…

March 23, 2023

NRL to Launch First In-Space Laser Power Beaming Experiment

The following was a press release sent out by the Navy Research Labs (NRL) on March 14, 2023. It is…

March 17, 2023

Liftoff! NASA’s Artemis I Mega Rocket Launches Orion to Moon

The following is NASA press release 22-117, sent on November 15, 2022, and is archived here for reference. Following a…

November 16, 2022