Mystery of Auroral Beads Uncovered With NASA’s THEMIS Spacecraft
A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is helping scientists better understand the science of auroras…
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Hubble Finds Cause for Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming – Is Aging Red Supergiant About to Supernova?
Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of…
NASA Launched Laser Beams at the Moon – For the First Time, They Received a Signal Back
Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles…
NASA’s TESS – The Space Agency’s “Planet Hunter” – Completes Its Primary Mission With “Roaring Success”
On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long…
NASA Scientists Develop Instrument for Analyzing Mars’s Boundary Layer – “We Have Great Capabilities in Lidar, Space Lasers, and Detectors”
Insights and technology gleaned from creating a carbon-measuring instrument for Earth climate studies is being leveraged to build another that would remotely profile, for the…
NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Observes Weird Glowing and Pulsing in Mars’ Night Sky
Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. The results are being used to illuminate…
Helium Structures Found in Sun’s Atmosphere by NASA Sounding Rocket
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists aren’t sure just how much there actually is in the Sun’s…
“Surfer Waves” – NASA Rocket Sees Curling Waves High Above Alaskan Sky
The “surfer waves” in this image, forming high above the Alaskan sky, illuminate the invisible currents in the upper atmosphere. They were measured by trimethyl-aluminum…
“Deflated Croissant” – Uncovering the True Shape of Our Solar System
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions….
NASA’s Lucy Mission – Which Will Study Trojan Asteroids – Passes Critical Mission Milestone
Last week marked the completion of a major milestone on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations for NASA’s Lucy mission. The Systems…
Data From Solar Dynamics Observatory Helps NASA Predict Big Solar Flares
Using data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new model that successfully predicted seven of the Sun’s biggest flares from…
Occupants Check Into NASA’s “Robot Hotel” Aboard the Space Station
Storage is just as important aboard the International Space Station as it is on Earth. While the space station is about the size of a…
NASA Sees Hanna Strengthen into First Atlantic Hurricane of 2020
NASA satellite imagery revealed powerful thunderstorms fueled the intensification of Hanna into a hurricane along the Texas coast. Hanna has become the first hurricane of…
Major Milestone for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Mission
When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous panoramic pictures of space in unprecedented detail. The mission’s wide…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Teams Up With Observatories Around Solar System
At the heart of understanding our space environment is the knowledge that conditions throughout space — from the Sun to the atmospheres of planets to…
World Discovered Orbiting a Unique Young Star Provides Astronomers With a One-of-Kind Laboratory
The newly discovered planet’s parent star is still encircled by the disk of material from which both objects formed, giving scientists a glimpse at early…
New Target Launch Date for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
NASA now is targeting October 31, 2021, for the launch of the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, due to impacts from the…
“Campfires” Spotted on Sun in First Solar Orbiter Images – Closest Pictures Ever of the Sun
The first images from ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter are now available to the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun. Solar Orbiter is…