The Sun Won’t Become a Black Hole – Here’s Why
Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it’s too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to…
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Majority of Lunar Ice Deposits Are Likely Billions of Years Old – But Some May Be Much More Recent
New research sheds light on the ages of ice deposits reported in the area of the Moon’s south pole — information that could help identify…
New Research on Lunar Ice Deposits Examines When and How It Got There
The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon’s south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Penetrate Space Dust to Reveal Milky Way’s Center
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions…
Mystery As Hubble Finds Milky Way Raids Intergalactic ‘Bank Accounts’
Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow gas out of the galactic disk, but that gas falls back onto…
At Edge of Solar System, Pressure Runs High – Greater Than Expected
Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic fields and particles like ions, cosmic rays and…
For the First Time, NASA’s TESS Mission Spots Star-Shredding Black Hole [Video]
For the first time, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) watched a black hole tear apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon called a…
Stunning New Black Hole Visualization From NASA Illustrates How Its Gravity Distorts Our View
This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror. The…
Saturn’s Rings Shine in Incredible New Image and Video From Hubble
Hubble’s Annual Snapshots Help Astronomers Monitor the Ringed World Saturn is so beautiful that astronomers cannot resist using the Hubble Space Telescope to take yearly…
NASA’s WFIRST Will Study Dark Energy and Help Uncover the Universe’s Fate [Video]
Scientists have discovered that a mysterious pressure dubbed “dark energy” makes up about 68% of the total energy content of the cosmos, but so far…
For 1st Time NASA Finds Water Vapor on a Super-Earth [Video]
Its size and surface gravity are much larger than Earth’s, and its radiation environment may be hostile, but a distant planet called K2-18b has captured…
NASA Satellite’s Infrared Eye Analyzes Typhoon Lingling
The storm that became Typhoon Lingling strengthened very quickly in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and infrared imagery from NASA revealed the powerful thunderstorms fueling that…
NASA Satellite Spots Major Hurricane Juliette’s Emerging Eye
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean and provided an image of Hurricane Juliette as its eye began to emerge. Juliette has grown…
Hurricane Dorian’s Eye Seen from the International Space Station
NASA is keeping an eye on Hurricane Dorian, which has battered the Bahamas and now threatens Florida and much of the southeastern coast of the…
NASA Estimates Hurricane Dorian’s Rain Using Data From a Fleet of Satellites
In the early hours of Tuesday, September 3, Hurricane Dorian had been stationary over the island of Grand Bahama for 18 hours, most of the…
NASA Analyzes Tropical Storm Dorian Day and Night
The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea, where the sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. The Leewards extend from…
NASA Satellite Image: Amazon Fires Shroud South America in Smoke
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite collected this natural-color image using the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument on August 21, 2019. Smoke from the fires…
Hubble’s “Jellyfish” Portrait of Star’s Gaseous Glow
Although it looks more like an entity seen through a microscope than a telescope, this rounded object, named NGC 2022, is certainly not algae or…