NASA InSight’s “Mole” Ends Its Journey on Mars – But the Mission Is Far From Over
The heat probe hasn’t been able to gain the friction it needs to dig, but the mission has been granted an extension to carry on…
The heat probe hasn’t been able to gain the friction it needs to dig, but the mission has been granted an extension to carry on…
This six-minute visual exploration of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field showcases the characteristics and contents of this landmark observation, as well as its four-dimensional nature…
Audio gathered by the mission may not sound quite the same on Mars as it would to our ears on Earth. A new interactive online…
On January 13, 2021, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, experienced its first lunar transit of the year when the Moon crossed its view of…
Rare Star’s Giant Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 204015A Captured Close to Our Home Galaxy Earth gets blasted by mild short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) most days. But…
A new Columbia study indicates energy can be extracted from black holes through reconnection of magnetic field lines. A remarkable prediction of Einstein’s theory of…
As the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it found distinctive benchlike rock formations. It’s been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched…
In this black and white infrared image, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission…
New measurements of the sky’s blackness show galaxies only number in the hundreds of billions. How dark is the sky, and what does that tell…
Fully formed just 670 million years after the Big Bang and powered by the earliest known supermassive black hole, the quasar provides insight into the…
An international team of scientists may be close to detecting faint ripples in space-time that fill the universe. Pairs of black holes billions of times…
The universe is getting hotter, a new study has found. The study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, probed the thermal history of the universe over the…
It is well known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to a mysterious dark energy. Within galaxies, stars also experience an acceleration,…
Scientists have used a “galaxy-sized” space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through…
Astronomers have looked nine billion years into the past to find evidence that galaxy mergers in the early universe could shut down star formation and…
This image shows a new type of star that has never been seen before in X-ray light. This strange star formed after two white dwarfs…
First discovered in 1798 by German-English astronomer William Hershel, NGC 613 is a galaxy that lies in the southern constellation of Sculptor 67 million light-years…
Planetary scientists wondered if bands of winds or swirling storms dominated the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. University of Arizona-led research has solved the mystery. A…