Astronomers Locate Source of Hazardous High-Energy Particles in the Sun
The source of potentially hazardous solar particles, released from the Sun at high speed during storms in its outer atmosphere, has been located for the…
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Super-Earth Atmospheres Probed With Sandia National Lab’s Powerful Z Machine
Imaging Space Debris in High Resolution to Track Hazardous Space Junk
Scientists Discover How Electrons Close to Earth Can Reach Almost the Speed of Light
NASA’s $10 Billion James Webb Space Telescope Completes Final Functional Tests to Prepare for Launch
Astrophysicist’s 2004 Theory Confirmed: Why the Sun’s Chemical Composition Varies
New Observations of First Black Hole Ever Detected Leads to Questions About the Universe’s Most Mysterious Objects
The Fascinating Story of How the Trojan Asteroids – Target of NASA’s Lucy Mission – Were Discovered and Named
Cruising Past a Spectacular Aurora Borealis on the International Space Station
Radioactivity in Meteorites Sheds Light on Origin of Heaviest Elements in Our Solar System
Meteorites Remember Conditions of Stellar Explosions A team of international researchers went back to the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago to…
Big, Beautiful and Blue: Hubble Captures Immense Galaxy That Stretches 200,000 Light-Years Across
NGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy — big, beautiful and blue — and it is captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The barred…
Four Futuristic Space Technology Concepts Selected by NASA for Further Research and Development
Four advanced space concepts from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been selected to receive grants for further research and development. Early-stage research into futuristic space…
Testing Proves Its Worth With Successful Mars Perseverance Parachute Deployment
The giant canopy that helped land Perseverance on Mars was tested here on Earth at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Test. Test again. Test…
ExoMars Orbiter Captures Perseverance at Landing Site in Mars’ Jezero Crater
The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, along with its parachute, heat shield, and descent stage, in the Jezero Crater…
Sensing Suns: Astronomers Accurately Measure the Temperature of Red Supergiant Stars
Red supergiants are a class of star that end their lives in supernova explosions. Their lifecycles are not fully understood, partly due to difficulties in…
Measuring the Expansion of the Universe: Surprising Discrepancies Hint at Inconsistency in the Composition of the Universe
Ever since the astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the further apart two galaxies are, the faster they move away from each other, researchers have measured…
Star’s Destruction by Supermassive Black Hole Linked to Origin of Universe’s Highest-Energy Particles
A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino—a particularly elusive particle—in the wake of a star’s destruction as it is consumed…
Reclusive Neutron Star May Have Been Found in Famous Supernova SN 1987A
Astronomers now have evidence from two X-ray telescopes (Chandra and NuSTAR) for a key component of a famous supernova remnant. Supernova 1987A was discovered on…