Cosmic Collision Ignites a Trillion-Sun Spectacle: James Webb Space Telescope Unveils Arp 220
A Dazzling Display of Star Birth Captured in Infrared A stunning smash-up of two spiral galaxies shines in infrared with the light of more than…
A Dazzling Display of Star Birth Captured in Infrared A stunning smash-up of two spiral galaxies shines in infrared with the light of more than…
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin prepare for a series of spacewalks to relocate a radiator at the International Space Station, while NASA astronauts clean…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter may have taken another step towards solving the eighty-year-old mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is so hot. On March 3,…
While analyzing data from the first images of a well-known early galaxy taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Cornell University astronomers discovered a…
Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center tested Orion’s solar array wing for the Artemis II mission, ensuring proper function for the spacecraft’s propulsion, thermal control,…
Astronomers used machine learning to improve the Event Horizon Telescope’s first black hole image, aiding in black hole behavior understanding and testing gravitational theories. The…
A milestone for NASA’s experimental supersonic airplane … Stretching Orion’s wings before the next flight … And technologies to help fight wildfires … A few…
Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA’s Mars…
NASA’s Lucy mission captured its first views of four Jupiter Trojan asteroids, with observations helping to choose exposure times for close-up observations. Lucy is on…
Is there life on Mars? There’s lots of pieces of evidence that say there was once a huge ocean on Mars and an atmosphere that…
After re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft made a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Tampa, Florida at 4:58 p.m. EDT on Saturday,…
Scientists are investigating the use of Earth’s seismic motions to test alternative models of gravity beyond Einstein’s general theory of relativity. By analyzing seismic waves…
What Is a Star? A star is an approximately spherical body of plasma, which is held together by its own gravity and prevented from collapsing…
Galaxy is the smallest ever discovered at this distance—around 500 million years after the Big Bang. Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a…
The board, initiated by NASA, will provide added confidence that the program won’t exceed guidelines following an important upcoming milestone. NASA will convene a Mars…
Astronomers have taken a significant step forward in uncovering the mysteries of the cosmic dawn. A collection of 350 radio telescopes located in the Karoo…
ESA’s Juice spacecraft captured its first monitoring camera images after a successful launch on April 14. The cameras will record various deployments, including the Radar…
The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it’s encountered on the Red Planet. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter marked its…