Mysterious “Superbubble” Hollows Out Nebula in Stunning New Hubble Image
N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One…
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A Guide to Solar Flares: What Does It Take To Be X-Class?
Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light, and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar…
Glitches Send Hubble Space Telescope Into Safe Mode – NASA Team Investigating
NASA is continuing to investigate why the instruments in the Hubble Space Telescope recently went into safe mode configuration, suspending science operations. The instruments are…
Mysteries Abound: NASA Studying the Edge of the Sun’s Magnetic Bubble
Our corner of the universe, the solar system, is nestled inside the Milky Way galaxy, home to more than 100 billion stars. The solar system…
NASA’s New $10 Billion Webb Space Telescope Will Reveal the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
Webb will tackle the challenge of the supermassive black hole’s puzzling flares, which have proved both intriguing and frustrating for astronomers. In its first year…
The Greatest Origin Story of All: NASA Webb Space Telescope – 29 Days on the Edge [Video]
The greatest origin story of all unfolds with the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s launch is a pivotal moment that exemplifies the dedication, innovation, and…
NASA OSIRIS-REx Mission Helps Solve a Mystery: Why Are Some Asteroid Surfaces Rocky?
Scientists thought Bennu’s surface was like a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles, which would have been perfect for collecting samples. Past telescope…
Ten Astonishing Mysteries of Venus
The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth’s and roasted by…
NASA’s High Bandwidth Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Gears Up for Launch
NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) is gearing up for launch this fall, no earlier than November 22. The payload arrived in Florida in May,…
Five Fascinating Facts to Help You Understand Sea Ice
One way that scientists monitor climate change is through the measure of sea ice extent. Sea ice extent is the area of ice that covers…
Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night With NASA
The public is invited to participate in several of NASA’s virtual activities in celebration of International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, October 16. This…
NASA’s Lucy Trojan Asteroid Mission Invites You to Build Your Own Time Capsule
Where will you be and what will you be up to in August of 2027? What about March of 2033? NASA knows exactly where the…
How To Ship the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Space Telescope 5,800 Miles Across the Ocean
When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches, it will undergo one of the most harrowing deployment processes any spacecraft has ever endured. But before it…
NASA Searching for Free-Floating Planets Using Artificial Intelligence and Gravitational Microlensing
Exoplanet hunters have found thousands of planets, most orbiting close to their host stars, but relatively few alien worlds have been detected that float freely…
We Asked a NASA Scientist: Is Mars Habitable? [Video]
Is Mars habitable? Could ancient life once have existed on the Red Planet? Is there potential for life today deep beneath the Martian crust? Ell…
Surprising Standing Waves at Edge of Earth’s Magnetic Bubble Found in NASA Data
Earth sails the solar system in a ship of its own making: the magnetosphere, the magnetic field that envelops and protects our planet. The celestial…
NASA’s Lucy Mission To Explore the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids – “It’s Almost Like We’re Traveling Back in Time”
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will launch in October 2021 on a 12-year journey to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission will include three Earth gravity assists…
NASA Confirms Roman Space Telescope Mission’s Flight Design in Milestone Review
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its critical design review, signaling that all design and developmental engineering work is now complete. “After…