NASA Chief Scientist to Retire
NASA’s Chief Scientist Jim Green has announced that he will retire in early 2022 after more than 40 years of service at NASA. “I feel…
NASA’s Chief Scientist Jim Green has announced that he will retire in early 2022 after more than 40 years of service at NASA. “I feel…
An international research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the distribution of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in planet formation sites with the…
Rodent research, microbe sampling, and Dragon packing filled the Expedition 65 crew’s day at the end of the week aboard the International Space Station. Three…
NASA released its first digital, interactive graphic novel on Saturday in celebration of National Comic Book Day. “First Woman: NASA’s Promise for Humanity” imagines the…
A new miniature satellite designed and built at CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is providing proof that “cute” things can take on…
Scientists tap into an array of imagers aboard the six-wheeled explorer to get a big picture of the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover has been…
Magnetic reconnection events less than 2 Jovian radii above the planet’s cloud tops could explain why Juno has yet to observe a source for Jupiter’s…
Radio light comes in a rainbow of colors. We see these colors with radio bands, and each band has a story to tell about the…
In 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) impacted Jupiter, which had captured the comet shortly before (and broken apart by its gravity). The event became…
A new view of the region closest to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) has shown important details…
Permanently shadowed lunar craters contain water ice, but are difficult to image. A machine learning algorithm now provides sharper images. The Moon’s polar regions are…
Around the same size as two big Harry Potter paperbacks, ESA’s Sun-watching Sunstorm CubeSat has produced its first solar X-ray spectrum, coming just over a week after its launch…
In the months since we flew for the first time, we have learned a great deal about operating a helicopter on Mars. We have explored…
NASA’s future will continue to be a story of human exploration, science, engineering, and technology. Working together, we define the future, achieve the impossible and…
The lander cleared enough dust from one solar panel to keep its seismometer on through the summer, allowing scientists to study the three biggest quakes…
The International Astronomical Union has named a crater at the Moon’s south pole after the Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, a Black man who in 1909…
Hubble Finds Early, Massive Galaxies Running on Empty “Live fast, die young” could be the motto of six early, massive, “dead” galaxies that ran out…
Gigantic cavity in space sheds new light on how stars form. Astronomers analyzing 3D maps of the shapes and sizes of nearby molecular clouds have…