Following successful deployment and start of spacecraft commissioning on July 4, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning…
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The XMM-Newton spacecraft has identified the source of particle acceleration in the Manatee Nebula, revealing…
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE), a small CubeSat, about…
Beginning on May 6 and continuing through June 16, NASA’s Lucy mission team carried out…
The rainbow-colored map, to be released in batches over six months, covers the vast majority…
Launching a new mission around the Moon … Preparing the Space Launch System for its…
At around 2:30 p.m. ET on July 2, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and…
Galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger that lies around 520 million light-years from…
The James Webb Space Telescope will soon reveal the deepest images of the Universe, showing…
Find Clouds on Mars to Help NASA Scientists By spotting clouds in data collected by…
Gemini North Telescope Reveals a Relict of the Earliest Galaxies A unique ultra-faint dwarf galaxy…
In this Hubble Space Telescope image from 2014, brightly glowing plumes of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)…
Precise Insights into the Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way’s Heart Astronomers use Gemini…
Recently, NIRISS, one of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s four primary scientific instruments concluded its…
The Solar System’s Chaotic Early Stages An international team of researchers led by the ETH…
NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than Thursday, July 14, for launch of…
Sunspot AR3038’s rapid growth is normal; it poses no threat but could cause auroras. Monitoring…
CAPSTONE will test a unique lunar orbit for NASA’s Gateway, validating navigation and orbit stability…