“I have seen the dark universe yawning, Where the black planets roll without aim; Where they roll in their horror unheeding, without knowledge or lustre…
Caught in the Act: MeerKAT Telescope Spies Stellar Flare Scientists using the MeerKAT radio telescope have discovered a unique and previously-unseen flare of radio emission…
The leftovers from a spectacular supernova that revolutionized our understanding of how stars end their lives have finally been spotted by astronomers at Cardiff University….
As NASA continues preparations for the summer 2020 Florida launch of its Mars 2020 rover, including the recent completion of testing the spacecraft in Mars-like…
Fifty years ago today, during their second moonwalk, Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. and Alan Bean became the first humans to reach out and touch a…
The International Space Station is a stepping stone for NASA’s Artemis program that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by…
Each second, 1.5 million tons of solar material shoot off of the Sun and out into space, traveling at hundreds of miles per second. Known…
First Detection of Inverse Compton Emission From Dying Gamma-Ray Burst A dying star emits intense flashes of light called a gamma-ray burst. Most days, the…
Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie ‘song’…
A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have produced the highest-energy light yet seen from…
Research team discovers three supermassive black holes at the core of one galaxy due to the simultaneous merging of giant galaxies. An international research team…
Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA recently demonstrated an Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) thruster at full power for the first time, achieving an important program milestone….
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the most energetic outburst ever seen in the universe — a blast…
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s…
Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. Using data from NASA…
A radio telescope in the Western Australian outback has captured a spectacular new view of the center of the galaxy in which we live, the…
Starting around approximately 1200 – 1808 UTC (7:00 am – 1:38 pm ET) November 11, 2019, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watched as Mercury moved across…
[Update 11/29/19: Ohio University has withdrawn this article.] Analysis of images from Mars rovers shows insect- and reptile-like fossils, creatures according to Ohio University entomologist….