James Webb Telescope’s Golden Mirror Wings Open for the Last Time on Earth
For the last time while it is on Earth, the world’s largest and most powerful space science telescope opened its iconic primary mirror. This event…
For the last time while it is on Earth, the world’s largest and most powerful space science telescope opened its iconic primary mirror. This event…
NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to take place no earlier than…
Physicists’ new proposal that a new type of extra dark energy is involved is highlighted in scientific journal. The universe was created by a giant…
A recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete…
After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with…
New observations and simulations show that jets of high-energy particles emitted from the central massive black hole in the brightest galaxy in galaxy clusters can…
Researchers simulate conditions necessary for planet’s unique magnetic field. New Johns Hopkins University simulations offer an intriguing look into Saturn’s interior, suggesting that a thick…
Voyager 1 — one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space — still works…
The world’s first ground-based observations of the bare nucleus of a comet nearing the end of its active life revealed that the nucleus has a…
Sounds of the Mars Helicopter’s whirring rotors add another new dimension to the historic project. For the first time, a spacecraft on another planet has…
This Picture of the Week showcases the emission nebula NGC 2313. The bright star V565 — surrounded by four prominent diffraction spikes — illuminates a…
Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions – one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious…
The Sun isn’t the only star to produce stellar flares. On April 21, 2021, a team of astronomers published new research describing the brightest flare…
Gemini North spectroscopically resolves a pair of quasars that are closer together than any yet discovered in the distant Universe. Astronomers have found two close…
Using neural networks, Flatiron Institute research fellow Yin Li and his colleagues simulated vast, complex universes in a fraction of the time it takes with…
The early-stage NASA concept could see robots hang wire mesh in a crater on the Moon’s far side, creating a radio telescope to help probe…
For decades astronomers have been spotting bursts of electromagnetic radiation coming from black holes. They assumed those are the result of stars being torn apart,…
The Red Planet rotorcraft headed south in support of furthering research into the potential use of aerial scouts on Mars in the future. NASA’s Ingenuity…