NASA’s Swift Helps Tie “Ghost Particle” to Star-Shredding Black Hole
For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to an object outside our galaxy. Using ground- and space-based…
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Astronomers Sketch U Monocerotis – A Rare Type of Stellar Binary – Using Over a Century of Observations
Astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri variable, a rare type of stellar binary where two stars – one approaching the…
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Stretches Its Wings in Successful Solar Panel Deployment Test
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of both solar panels, the final step in checking out these critical spacecraft components in preparation…
Weird X-ray Surges Detected in Crab Pulsar’s Radio Bursts by NASA’s NICER
A global science collaboration using data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station has discovered X-ray surges accompanying…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Packs Its Tennis Court-Sized Sunshield for a Million Mile Journey
Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Completes Final Tour of Asteroid Bennu Before Its 180,000,000 Mile Trip Back to Earth
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx completed its last flyover of Bennu around 6 a.m. EDT (4 a.m. MDT) April 7 and is now slowly drifting away from the…
NASA OSIRIS-REx’s Final Observation Run of Asteroid Bennu Before Returning to Earth
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu’s surface during last fall’s sample collection…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Predicted to Find 100,000 Transiting Planets
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, helping us answer questions about the evolution of our universe. Astronomers also expect the…
NASA’s Pandora Mission Would Help Probe Alien Worlds
In the quest for habitable planets beyond our own, NASA is studying a mission concept called Pandora, which could eventually help decode the atmospheric mysteries…
In First, Scientists Trace Dangerous Solar Energetic Particles to Their Roots on the Sun
Zipping through space at close to the speed of light, Solar Energetic Particles, or SEPs, are one of the main challenges for the future of…
Astronomers Puzzled After Hubble View of Torrential Outflows From Infant Stars Blows Hole in Current Theories
Study Finds That Cavities Sculpted by Stellar Outflows Did Not Expand Over Time Stars aren’t shy about announcing their births. As they are born from…
Stunning Hubble Images Capture Changing Seasons in Saturn’s Vast and Turbulent Atmosphere
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a view of changes in Saturn’s vast and turbulent atmosphere as the planet’s northern hemisphere summer transitions to…
NASA Spacecraft Unmask High-Energy Blast That Swept Through the Solar System – Magnetar Eruption in Nearby Galaxy
On April 15, 2020, a brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system, triggering instruments on several NASA and European spacecraft. Now, multiple…
Discrepancies in the Hubble Constant Have Vexed Astronomers – NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Help Resolve the Puzzle
Discrepancies in the Hubble constant, which describes how fast the universe is expanding, have vexed astronomers for years. Values predicted from observations of the early…
Switchbacks Science: Explaining NASA’s Parker Solar Probe’s Mysterious Magnetic Puzzle
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sent back the first observations from its voyage to the Sun, scientists found signs of a wild ocean of currents…
Serendipitous Juno Spacecraft Detections Shatter Ideas About Origin of Zodiacal Light
Data from the NASA spacecraft’s journey to Jupiter suggests that Mars may be shedding dust into interplanetary space. Look up to the night sky just…
A Software Error Sent NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Into Safe Mode Last Sunday – Now It Has Recovered
NASA is working to return the Hubble Space Telescope to science operations after resolving a problem with a safeguard aboard. Hubble entered safe mode on…
Celestial Geometry Posed a Special Opportunity During Parker Solar Probe’s 7th Solar Encounter
During Parker Solar Probe’s seventh swing by the Sun, culminating in its closest solar approach, or perihelion, on January 17, 2021, celestial geometry posed a…