Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World Found by NASA Planet Hunter [Video]
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be…
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Stunning Satellite Images As Rain Brings Relief to Australia’s Fires
NASA satellite data continues to provide a look at the smoke and aerosols generated by the massive fires in Australia. Although rain fell on parts…
In Search for Alien Life, Scientists Develop New Method to Detect Oxygen on Exoplanets
New Technique Could Speed Search for Life in Outer Space Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres that may accelerate…
Satellite Imagery Shows Ferocious Fires in Australia Intensify
As the New Year starts, the outlook for the bushfire situation in Australia continues to be grim. These huge and disastrous fires continue to burn…
Understanding Black Holes: 5 Things to Know [Video]
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. Here are five things to know! A black hole is a single point…
NASA SnowEx Airborne Campaign Catches the Drift of Snow Water
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – the time NASA’s SnowEx campaign hits the skies and ground of the world’s snowy places, measuring…
‘Cotton Candy’ Planet Mysteries Unravel – Nothing Like Them Exists in Our Solar System
“Super-Puffs” may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it’s actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the…
NASA Team Studying the Building Blocks of Life Will Analyze 50-Year-Old Apollo Moon Soil – Here’s Why
New Generations, Equipped with New Technologies, Prepare to Analyze 50-Year-Old Samples in the New Year Fortunately for today’s scientists, Apollo-era leaders had the foresight to…
Long-Standing Antimatter Mystery May Be Solved by Discovery of Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-Ray ‘Halo’
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light around a nearby pulsar. If visible to the human eye,…
NASA GISMO Reveals 1,000 Trillion Mile Long Cosmic ‘Candy Cane’ in Milky Way
A feature resembling a candy cane appears at the center of this colorful composite image of our Milky Way galaxy’s central zone. But this is…
Magnetic Explosions Observed on Sun – Unlike Anything Seen Before [Video]
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the…
Surprising Clues to Martian Climate Uncovered As NASA’s MAVEN Maps Winds in Mars’ Upper Atmosphere [Video]
Researchers have created the first map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of a planet besides Earth, using data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft that…
NASA Selects Nightingale Crater on Bennu for Asteroid Sample Collection
After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu’s boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission has officially selected a sample collection site….
Mysterious Visitor From the Depths of Space Swings Past Sun
When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it’s bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention….
Newfound Martian Proton Aurora Can Help Track Mars’ Water Loss
A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is actually the most common form of aurora occurring on the Red…
Daring Rescue of Monumental Asteroid Mission – Here’s How Engineers Pulled It Off
On Friday, October 11, 2019, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely over the asteroid Bennu to capture high-resolution…
X-Ray Space Observatory XMM-Newton Celebrates 20 Years in Space [Video]
Two decades ago, on December 10, 1999, an Ariane 5 rocket climbed into the morning sky from Kourou, French Guiana. It carried into orbit the…
Ice in Motion: Incredible Time-Lapse Satellite Footage Captures Decades of Change
New time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space – some spanning nearly 50 years – are providing scientists with new…