Hubble’s Stunning Grand Tour of the Outer Solar System
Stunning Yearly Observations Reveal Changes to Gas Giants’ Atmospheres In Greek mythology, a race of giants, called the Titans, first ruled the world. The ancient…
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Space Station Operations Return to Normal After Destructive Russian Anti-Satellite Test
NASA and U.S. Space Command continue to monitor the debris cloud created by a recent Russian anti-satellite test. The International Space Station and crew members…
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft: Instruments Checkout A-OK, Progress on Solar Array Glitch
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft continues to operate in cruise mode – the standard mode for its orbit away from Earth. Checkouts for the Lucy instruments were…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Primed To Reveal Secrets of Galaxy’s Most Mysterious Planets
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Primed to Lift the Haze Surrounding Sub-Neptunes Detailed atmospheric studies will provide key insights into some of the most common…
Witness the Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse in Centuries
We have a rare opportunity to witness the longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years. If the weather permits, it will grace our sky…
Dramatic Video of Mars Helicopter’s Challenging Flight Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover
Recently downlinked imagery of a September flight has allowed the rover imaging team to put together a video of rotorcraft performing to near-perfection. Video footage…
Nebula Churns Out Massive B-Type Stars in New Hubble Image
Stars are born from turbulent clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravitational attraction. As the cloud collapses, a dense, hot core…
Life on Mars – Or False Fossils?
Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests. Rocks on Mars may contain…
Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lander Selected by NASA To Deliver Science Investigations to the Moon
NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston a contract to deliver research, including science investigations and a technology demonstration, to the Moon in 2024. The…
Weak Supernova Explosions From Isolated Stars
Many of the heaviest stars in the Universe will end their lives in a bright explosion, known as a supernova, which briefly outshines the rest…
Not Saying It Was Aliens, but ’Oumuamua Probably Wasn’t a Nitrogen Iceberg…
On October 19th, 2017, astronomers made the first-ever detection of an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our Solar System. Designated 1I/2017 U1′ Oumuamua, this object…
NASA to Roll Out Artemis Mega Moon Rocket for First Time
Media registration is now open to capture imagery and video as NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft roll out of the Vehicle…
NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Preparing To Glide Over “Raised Ridges” and Land Near Edge of “South Séítah”
With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the journey back towards “Wright Brothers Field” at “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” the site where Perseverance touched down with Ingenuity…
Mars – Or Arrakis? Perseverance Is Currently Winding Through a Maze of Towering Sand Dunes
Who hates deep sand traps more than golfers? Mars rover drivers (and probably Fremen too). When your vehicle is well over 50 million kilometers away…
Don’t Miss: Near-Total Lunar Eclipse, Snow Moon, Comet Leonard, Geminid Meteor Shower
The next full Moon is a near-total lunar eclipse, the Beaver, Frost/Frosty, or Snow Moon; Kartik Purnima, the full Moon of the Festivals of Karthika…
New Method To Detect Tatooine-Like Planets Proves Successful
A new technique developed in part by University of Hawaiʻi astronomer Nader Haghighipour has allowed scientists to quickly detect a transiting exoplanet with two suns….
NASA’s Next Steps to Return Hubble Space Telescope to Normal Operation
The Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys has continued collecting science data as NASA works to address the anomaly that started October 25. Missed…
Astronaut Jessica Watkins Assigned to NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Mission
NASA has assigned astronaut Jessica Watkins to serve as a mission specialist on the agency’s upcoming SpaceX Crew-4 mission, the fourth crew rotation flight of…