NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Observes Lunar Eclipse From 64 Million Miles Away
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft observed the total lunar eclipse on May 15-16, 2022, from a unique vantage point, 64 million miles (100 million km) from the…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft observed the total lunar eclipse on May 15-16, 2022, from a unique vantage point, 64 million miles (100 million km) from the…
Scientists have learned how discrete aurora is formed on Mars. In a new study, the physicists report that the upstream solar wind properties interacting with…
In our sun’s cosmic neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been able to identify the…
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft successfully docked to the International Space Station’s Harmony module for the first time on May 20, 2022, at 8:28 p.m. EDT…
Less than one percent of stars in a galaxy are formed with masses exceeding ten solar masses. Despite their rarity, massive stars are believed to…
What Is the James Webb Space Telescope? The James Webb Space Telescope is the next great space science observatory, designed to answer outstanding questions about…
As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, the JWST team has also begun working on technical…
The Universe contains different “flavors” of black holes. While “stellar” mass black holes are 10-50 times the mass of our Sun, supermassive black holes are…
According to new research, an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity might be the key to solving a…
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is in orbit, heading for the International Space Station (ISS) following the launch today (May 19, 2022) of the next-generation spacecraft on…
Dark Energy Camera captures a trove of celestial phenomena in one shot. This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy…
Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission is counting down to a liftoff at 6:54 p.m. EDT today (May 19, 2022) to begin a 24-hour trip…
Jupiter’s already vibrant colors become even more spectacular in this striking artistic interpretation of an image from NASA’s Juno mission that shows the planet’s famous…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover was on the move this past week after finishing up remote science activities at Enchanted Lake, an exposure of finely layered…
On Wednesday morning, May 18, 2022, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket rolled out of the ULA Vertical…
While the Voyager 1 spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, the mission team is searching for the source of a…
Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to a close around the end of this year. NASA’s InSight…
The International Space Station (ISS) is preparing for the targeted arrival of Boeing’s Starliner crew ship on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission. Meanwhile,…