NASA’s ACE Mission: Total Solar Eclipses Shine a Light on the Solar Wind
From traversing sand dunes in the Sahara Desert to keeping watch for polar bears in the Arctic, a group of solar scientists known as the…
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Gorgeous New Sun Science Stamps Highlight a Decade of Sun-Watching From Space
To start off the summer, the U.S. Postal Service issued a set of stamps highlighting views of the Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Showcasing…
Cosmic Mystery Deepens: Oddball “See-Through” Galaxy’s Missing Dark Matter
Precise Distance to Galaxy Bolsters Missing Dark Matter Claim What if oceanographers found the “tip” of an iceberg and nothing else? Mysteriously missing was the…
Newly Named Asteroids Honor Pioneering Astronauts Who Have Helped Expand Our Horizons Beyond Earth
Twenty-seven asteroids have been named in honor of African American, Hispanic, and Native American astronauts, and one cosmonaut, who have helped expand our horizons beyond…
NASA Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision “Eyes” for Roman Space Telescope
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. When Roman launches in the mid-2020s, these devices…
Unusual “Rosetta Stone” Solar Eruption Could Help Explain Mysterious Powerful Explosions on the Sun
In a dramatic, multi-staged eruption, the Sun has revealed new clues that could help scientists solve the long-standing mystery of what causes the Sun’s powerful…
NASA: 2021 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Extent Ranks Seventh-Lowest on Record
Sea ice in the Arctic appears to have hit its annual maximum extent after growing through the fall and winter. The 2021 wintertime extent reached…
First NASA Probe Mission to Venus in 40 Years: DAVINCI+ to Explore Divergent Fate of Earth’s Mysterious Twin
Although Earth and Venus are similar in size and location, they are very different worlds today. While Earth has oceans of water and abundant life,…
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…
OSIRIS-REx Heading Home With Abundant Sample of Asteroid Bennu
After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with…
NASA’s Roman Mission: Using Exploding Stars to Solve the Biggest Cosmic Mysteries
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations,…
NASA Finds Organic Salts Are Likely Present on Mars – Remnants of Ancient Martian Microbial Life?
Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle A NASA team has found that organic, or carbon-containing, salts are likely present on Mars, with…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Study How Massive Stars’ Blasts of Radiation Influence Their Environments
The nearby Orion Bar is a typical example of a region influenced by young, massive stars Spectacular supernova explosions have been known to shape the…
Magnetic Monsters: Hubble Tracks Down Location of Mysterious Radio Signals From Intergalactic Space
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms They come from anywhere in the sky: mysterious flashes of radio energy that disappear in…
NASA Laser Communications: Empowering More Data Than Ever Before
Launching this summer, NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will showcase the dynamic powers of laser communications technologies. With NASA’s ever-increasing human and robotic presence…
New NASA Multi-Wavelength Data Sheds (Sun) Light on Climate Models
Have you ever worn a dark T-shirt on a sunny day and felt the fabric warm in the Sun’s rays? Most of us know dark…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Probe the Outer Realm of Exoplanetary Systems, Hunt for New Worlds
NASA’s Webb to Study Young Exoplanets on the Edge Webb will probe the outer realm of exoplanetary systems, investigating known planets and hunting for new…
Tracking Carbon From the Ocean Surface to the Dark “Twilight Zone”
A seaward journey, supported by both NASA and the National Science Foundation, set sail in the northern Atlantic in early May—the sequel to a complementary…