NASA Remembers September 11
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were a national tragedy that resulted in a staggering loss of life and a significant change in American culture….
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NASA Selects New Orion Program Manager: Catherine Koerner
NASA has selected Catherine Koerner as manager of the agency’s Orion Program. In this role, she will is responsible for the development and operations of…
Strange Activity on Asteroid Bennu Had NASA Baffled – “Definitely Surprised Us”
The asteroid, which is being studied by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, shows some surprising activity on its surface, and scientists are beginning to understand what might be…
Hubble’s Shocking Dark Matter Discovery: Observations Suggest a Missing Ingredient in Cosmic Recipe
Astronomers have discovered that there may be a missing ingredient in our cosmic recipe of how dark matter behaves. Astronomers have uncovered a discrepancy between…
How Did Organic Matter Reach Earth? Cosmic Detectives Trace Origin of Complex Organic Molecules
Scientists confirm the presence of acetonitrile in a distant interstellar gas cloud using a radio telescope. How did organic matter reach the Earth in the…
NASA Enlists Commercial Partners to Fly 10 Science and Technology Payloads to the Moon
NASA has issued another request to its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) partners to bid on flying a suite of payloads to the Moon….
Planetary Scientists Surprised to Find the Moon Rusting – Now They’ve Found the Likely Culprit
To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon, according to a study…
Columns of Matter That Build Up Newborn Stars Directly Observed for the First Time
A team including researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of the University of Cologne has for the first time directly observed the columns of matter…
Giant Particle Accelerator in the Sky – Extremely High Energy Electrons Within the Van Allen Radiation Belts
Electrons are locally heated to extremely high energies within the Van Allen Radiation Belts, new study finds. The Earth’s magnetic field is trapping high energy…
Awe-Inspiring Magnetic Details of the Sun Revealed by Europe’s Largest Solar Telescope
GREGOR, the largest solar telescope in Europe, which is operated by a German consortium and located on Teide Observatory, Spain, has obtained unprecedented images of…
New Theory About the Nature of Dark Matter Explains Mysterious Deficiency in Galaxy Pair
UC Riverside-led study found self-interacting dark matter theory explains why two galaxies have less dark matter than others. A new theory about the nature of…
Particles As Big as Softballs Ejected From Asteroid Bennu Seem to Do the Impossible – Now Astrophysicists Know Why
In January 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was orbiting the asteroid Bennu when the spacecraft’s cameras caught something unexpected: Thousands of tiny bits of material, some just…
Massive Magellanic Cloud Halo Discovery Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way
The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies in its orbit, and the two largest are known as the…
Words of Wisdom: Advice From an Astronaut [Video]
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano provides words of wisdom to young people on how investing their time wisely today can help build a better tomorrow. In…
Structures for Large and Small Dark Matter Halos Revealed
Most of the matter in the Universe is dark and thus not directly observable. In results just published in the journal Nature, an international research…
NASA Mars Perseverance Test Rover’s First Drive
Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for the first time in a warehouselike assembly room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion…
Bursting Earth’s Bubble: Artificial Intelligence Helps Find Magnetic Eruptions in Space
An alert pops up in your email: The latest spacecraft observations are ready. You now have 24 hours to scour 84 hours-worth of data, selecting…
Stellar Evolution Code “METISSE” Offers New Insights Into the Lives of Massive Stars
Massive stars are larger than about 10 times the mass of the Sun and are born far less often than their low mass counterparts. However,…