NASA’s New $10 Billion Space Telescope Successfully Deploys Massive Mirror
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space as part of a recent…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space as part of a recent…
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe. Hubble confirms that this…
The Mars 2020 mission involving NASA’s newly named rover — Perseverance — received a substantial boost following the completion of important testing at the agency’s…
Controllers at ESA’s mission control center are preparing for a gravity-assist flyby of BepiColombo, the European-Japanese Mercury explorer. The maneuver, which will see the mission…
The modules that the major space agencies plan to build on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers themselves: the urea…
This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but don’t…
On March 25, NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis I returned to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after undergoing environmental testing at NASA’s Plum…
University of Arizona researchers probed Martian meteorites to reconstruct Mars’ chaotic history. Their findings suggest that Mars might not have had a global magma ocean….
After undergoing a series of performance and environmental tests, NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster – Commercial (NEXT-C) is being prepared for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test…
The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, perhaps siphoned away by the planet’s magnetic field. Eight and…
Humans have been studying the light from stars since the beginning of our history; however, we’ve only just discovered in the last few decades that…
The Space Force launched in late December and, as it approaches its 100th day, its forward momentum is unabated by the coronavirus pandemic, the chief…
NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other…
The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, as explained by General Relativity. A massive body can therefore act like…
A new collaborative study with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveals a possible collision of two neutron stars earlier in…
NGC 4618 was discovered on April 9, 1787, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel, who also discovered Uranus in 1781. Only a year before discovering…
As part of NASA’s ‘Send Your Name to Mars’ campaign, they’ve been stenciled onto three microchips along with essays from NASA’s ‘Name the Rover’ contest….
Using the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech’s Nahum Arav has discovered the most energetic outflows…