Two NASA Space Legends Ascend to the Astronaut Hall of Fame
Roy D. Bridges Jr. and Senator Mark E. Kelly were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida,…
Roy D. Bridges Jr. and Senator Mark E. Kelly were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida,…
Juice spacecraft’s RIME antenna, designed to study Jupiter’s icy moons, has been successfully deployed after overcoming a stuck pin issue with the help of a…
Roscosmos cosmonauts Prokopyev and Petelin completed a 5-hour spacewalk to deploy a radiator on the ISS’s Nauka module, marking the sixth spacewalk in 2023 and…
A panoramic image of the M87 black hole and its jet has been captured at a new 3.5 mm wavelength, revealing more details about the…
Chandra X-ray Observatory Helps Astronomers Discover a Surprisingly Lonely Galaxy There is a surprisingly lonely galaxy about 9.2 billion light-years from Earth. Its surroundings have…
Astronomers have discovered the largest cosmic explosion ever observed, AT2021lwx, which is believed to have been caused by a supermassive black hole violently disrupting a…
Two cosmonauts, Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin, are scheduled to conduct a spacewalk on Friday to deploy and activate a radiator on…
Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic explosions in the Universe, marking the end of a star’s life. A particularly bright burst, GRB 221009, was recently…
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged lenticular galaxy NGC 5283, a Seyfert galaxy with a visible structure and an active galactic nucleus. The observation is…
Cosmonauts Prokopyev and Petelin prepared for a spacewalk, while the rest of Expedition 69 crew focused on eye exams, lab maintenance, and human research aboard…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a steamy, highly reflective mini-Neptune exoplanet, GJ 1214 b, using its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to reveal details about…
On its 3,800th sol, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover photographed a book-like rock, “Terra Firme,” a result of water depositing harder minerals and wind erosion shaping…
Gemini North captures sprawling aftermath of head-on collision between a pair of galaxies. The Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated…
Why is Venus called Earth’s evil twin? Venus and Earth are sometimes called twins because they’re pretty much about the same size. Venus is almost…
A study carried out by a team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has shown that an unusually thin structure of…
Expedition 69 astronauts maintained life support gear and serviced science hardware on the International Space Station, while cosmonauts prepared for Friday’s spacewalk to deploy a…
Physicists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have found fresh evidence supporting the Lambda-CDM model of the universe, using data derived from the…
Nearby Planetary System Seen in Breathtaking Detail A new Webb Space Telescope image of the bright, nearby star Fomalhaut reveals its planetary system with details…