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…
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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…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes First Full Systems Evaluation
Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been assembled into its final form, testing teams seized the unique opportunity to perform a critical software…
Unmatched View: Newly-Discovered Comet NEOWISE Spied by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020….
Solar Radiation Patterns That Expose the Moon Identified by NASA Spacecraft
Which way the wind blows in space has new importance for astronaut safety at the Moon. Using data from several NASA missions, scientists discovered that…
A Hunt for Ice on the Moon Ends in Surprise: What the Moon’s Really Made of
Radar Points to Moon Being More Metallic Than Previously Thought What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into…
NASA’s TESS Investigates Strange Ultrahot World – “The Weirdness Factor Is High With KELT-9 b”
Measurements from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of…
Massive Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket Analyzed by NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP Satellite
Dust storms from Africa’s Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but the current dust storm has been quite expansive and NASA…
Citizen Scientist Spots Never-Before-Seen Comet – The 4,000th Comet Discovery Using Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO — the 4,000th comet…
Hubble Spots Cosmic Flapping “Bat Shadow” in Outer Space [Video]
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star’s…
Planetary Spectrum Generator: See a Kaleidoscope of Simulated Sunsets on Other Worlds
Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you can see in the animation above, a Uranian sunset is a…
63 Mile Smoke Trail From Bighorn Fire Captured by NOAA/NASA Satellite
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bighorn Fire on June 22, 2020, showing clouds of smoke pouring off this fire that is plaguing…
