Webb Space Telescope’s Cool View on How Stars and Planets Form
The ongoing success of the multi-instrument optics alignment for NASA’s Webb telescope’s near-infrared instruments has moved the attention of the commissioning team to chill as…
The ongoing success of the multi-instrument optics alignment for NASA’s Webb telescope’s near-infrared instruments has moved the attention of the commissioning team to chill as…
New research shows how the impact that created the Moon’s South Pole–Aitken basin is linked to the stark contrast in composition and appearance between the…
Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears. With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of…
Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe, and Mark Pathy are now aboard the International Space Station following Crew Dragon’s hatch…
NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, entered their official quarantine period beginning Thursday, April…
Arase satellite uncovers coupling between plasma waves and charged particles in Geospace Scientists unravel a bit more of the mystery underlying how wave-particle interactions generate…
Most stars in spiral galaxies form within the galaxy’s arms. Building the “skeletons” of these galaxies are galactic bones, long filaments that outline the densest…
What Is the Big Bang? The Big Bang is the popular name for the moment in time when the Universe started. The term ‘Big Bang’…
“The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and other Webb instruments have been cooling by radiating their thermal energy into the dark of space for the bulk of…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent process.” This…
The MeerKAT telescope in South Africa has discovered a strong radio-wave laser known as a ‘megamaser.’ At nearly five billion light-years from Earth, the record-breaking…
To avoid patches of knife-edged rocks, the mission has taken an alternative path up Mount Sharp. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spent most of March climbing…
In continued preparations for the Artemis I wet dress rehearsal test, with tanking targeted for Monday, teams encountered an issue maintaining helium purge pressure on…
NASA and Axiom Space will provide coverage of launch and select mission activities for Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first private astronaut mission to the…
It’s not long since billionaires were competing to get to the “edge of space.” Now, the first set of private citizens are getting ready to…
The seven-member Expedition 67 crew is gearing up for a pair of spacewalks scheduled for later this month while ensuring the International Space Station orbits…
Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to the oldest stars in the universe, or a supermassive black hole….
The first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet has garnered an award whose past recipients make up a timeline of aerospace innovation…