Cosmonauts Finish Spacewalk to Ready Space Station for New Module
Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have completed a spacewalk lasting seven hours and 19 minutes….
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NASA Celebrates OSIRIS-REx’s Perfect Departure Maneuver From Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is 328,000 miles, or 528,000 kilometers, away from the asteroid Bennu, having fired its engines on May 10 to initiate a return…
Massive Stars Are Formed Not From Dust Disk but From Debris – “A Chaotic Mess”
A Dutch-led team of astronomers has discovered that high-mass stars are formed differently from their smaller siblings. Whereas small stars are often surrounded by an…
Best View Yet of Exceptional Cosmic Explosion – Challenges Established Theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Universe
Observation challenges established theory of gamma-ray bursts in the universe. Scientists have gained the best view yet of the brightest explosions in the universe: A…
Space Junk and Human Spacecraft – Department of Defense Tracking More Than 27,000 Pieces of Orbital Debris
More than 27,000 pieces of orbital debris, or “space junk,” are tracked by the Department of Defense’s global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensors. Much more…
Deep Water on Ice Giants Neptune and Uranus May Be Magnesium-Rich
While scientists have amassed considerable knowledge of the rocky planets in our solar system, like Earth and Mars, much less is known about the icy…
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson Delivers His First State of NASA Address
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson talks to the agency’s workforce during his first State of NASA event Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at the Mary W. Jackson…
NASA to Send Two Missions to Study “Lost Habitable” World of Venus
NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an…
Hubble Views Magnificent Lopsided Galaxy NGC 2276
The magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 2276 looks a bit lopsided in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. A bright hub of older yellowish stars normally lies…
Scientists Create Exotic “Outer Space” Ice – Unlike Any on Earth
The search for life beyond Earth typically focuses on first looking for water, the basis for life as we know it. Whether the water is…
Model Developed for the Distribution of Inner Planetary Systems May Help Unravel Cosmic Mystery
Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions. Data from the Kepler space telescope, launched more than a…
Is It Time for Us to Send Astronauts Back to the Moon?
The series For All Mankind (2019) is a fictional alternate history that imagines a world where the Soviet Union was the first power to send…
Supercomputing Tapped to Study Exotic Matter in Stars
A team at Stony Brook University used ORNL’s Summit supercomputer to model x-ray burst flames spreading across the surface of dense neutron stars. At the…
Spinning Disks, Oddball Stars, and Strange Planets Help Astronomers Test Theories About Planetary System Formation
How Are Solar Systems Born? Many of us remember those school-room models of our Solar System, with tiny wooden planets rotating at the ends of…
New Details Revealed of What Happened in the First Microsecond of the Big Bang
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma — the first matter ever to be present — during…
Stunning New Image of the Center of Our Galaxy Hints at Previously Unknown Interstellar Energy Source
Astronomer Reveals Never-Before-Seen Detail of the Center of Our Galaxy New image made using NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory hints at previously unknown interstellar energy source…
Hubble Captures Fantastic Detail of Eponymous Spiral Galaxy NGC 691
This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged in fantastic detail by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). This galaxy is the eponymous member of…
Breakthrough: Shrinking Planets Could Explain Mystery of Universe’s Missing Worlds
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: The scarcity…