NASA Selects Astronauts to Fly on SpaceX Crew-2 Mission
NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space…
NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space…
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air. On July…
Discovered in March 2020, Comet NEOWISE became visible to the naked eye in July, gifting observers in the northern hemisphere with one of the most…
This video shows Jezero crater, the landing site of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, based on images from ESA’s Mars…
“Stellar archeology” reveals a star stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity 2…
Storage is just as important aboard the International Space Station as it is on Earth. While the space station is about the size of a…
ESA’s Integral helps unravel origin of Fast Radio Bursts A global collaboration of telescopes including ESA’s Integral high-energy space observatory has detected a unique mix…
When you’re planning to explore someplace new, it’s always a good idea to bring a map so you can avoid dangerous terrain. This is true…
An international research team has presented a new look inside the “central engine” of a solar flare accompanied by an eruption, revealing an enormous electric…
With a targeted launch date of July 30, 2020, the next robotic scientist NASA is sending to the Red Planet has big ambitions. Scheduled to…
A rover expected to explore below the surface of Mars in 2022 has the potential to provide more insights The findings published in Scientific Reports,…
Study led by a University of Oregon physicist reconfigures a distance-calculation technique built around empirical observations. Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to…
NASA will provide live coverage of activities leading up to, during, and following the return of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight with the agency’s…
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted new gas signatures at Mars. These unlock new secrets about the Martian atmosphere, and will enable a more…
Looking its best ever is the star cluster NGC 2203, here imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Aside from its dazzling good looks, this…
If Rosalind Franklin had had a birthday wish, she probably never would have dreamed of having her name roving on Mars. As the world celebrates…
Infrared images from Juno provide the first glimpse of Ganymede’s icy north pole. On its way inbound for a December 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter,…
An international consortium of scientists has analyzed, as part of a vast program of cosmological surveys, several million galaxies and quasars, thus retracing a more…