Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Human eyes can see only a small portion of the range of radiation given off by the objects around us. We call this wide array…
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Amazing Tech Behind the Mission to Collect Rocks on Mars to Bring Back to Earth
If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what would you choose? This question is becoming reality, as ESA opens a call for…
NASA’s Asteroid Sampling Spacecraft to Pursue Its First Practice Run
In August, a robotic spacecraft will make NASA’s first-ever attempt to descend to the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample, and ultimately bring it…
NASA Wants Your Mini Moon Payload Designs and They’re Offering Cash Prizes
A new JPL-led challenge is seeking ideas for scientific instruments that could fit inside a tiny payload no bigger than a bar of soap. Future…
NASA Is Sending Dragonfly on a Revolutionary Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan – Here’s Why
Titan, with its methane seas and orange smog, is in some ways the most similar world to Earth that we have found. Though it’s merely…
Massive Protostar Surprisingly Keeps Growing, Which Could Help Solve a Galactic Mystery
Massive Protostar Keeps Growing Despite Ionization Heating by Ultraviolet Light A massive young star has been spotted that is continuing to grow despite boiling away…
See Last Stunning Snaps of Earth as Spacecraft Completes Flyby on Journey to Mercury
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its first flyby on April 10, as the spacecraft came less than 12,700 km from Earth’s surface at 06:25 CEST,…
Mars Helicopter Attached to Perseverance Rover – Preparing for Summer’s History-Making Launch
The team also fueled the rover’s sky crane to get ready for this summer’s history-making launch. With the launch period of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance…
NASA Measures Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf 200 Trillion Miles Away
Not quite planets and not quite stars, brown dwarfs are cosmic in-betweeners. Learning about their atmospheres could help us understand giant planets around other stars….
Fundamental Principle of Cosmology Cast in Doubt by Compelling New Study
Study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard raises doubts about basic assumption for the universe. No matter where we look, the same rules apply…
Powerful Relativistic Jet Blasts From Colliding Galaxies & Here’s the First-Ever Photo Proof
A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging…
The Lord of the Rings
At first glance, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image looks to be a simple spiral galaxy, with two pinwheeling arms emerging from…
What is a Supermoon?
Fast Facts A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth at the same time it is full. So what’s so special…
Sulfur ‘Spices’ Alien Atmospheres – Points to Signs of Life
They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental ‘variety’—sulfur—is indeed a ‘spice’…
“A Successful Failure” – NASA Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13
As NASA marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission – which has become known as “a successful failure” that saw the safe return of…
Rigorous Sterilization for Planetary Protection
Carefully wrapped inside this donut-shaped bag is a 35-m (115-ft) diameter parachute that will endure a frenzied six-minute dive into the Martian atmosphere. This qualification…
Tonight’s “Pink” Supermoon Will Be Biggest & Brightest of 2020
The next full Moon is the Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon, the Pesach or Passover Moon, Paschal Moon, Hanuman Jayanti, Bak…
Scientists Long Puzzled by Uranus’ Mysterious Oddities – Japanese Astronomers Find Answers
Uranus’ strange axis of rotation and the unusual properties of its moons and ring system are likely due to an ancient giant icy impact. The…