Spontaneous Magnetic Reversal of Monster Black Hole Sparks Enigmatic Outburst
NASA’s Swift Observatory Tracks Potential Magnetic Flip of Monster Black Hole A rare and enigmatic outburst from an active galaxy 236 million light-years away may…
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NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Cracks 60-Year Mystery of Fast Magnetic Explosions
In just minutes, a flare on the Sun can release enough energy to power the entire world for 20,000 years. These solar flares are triggered…
The Hot and Cold of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Completion of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s optical alignment has moved us into the final phase of commissioning the Science Instruments. During this final phase…
NASA Scientists Begin Studying 50-Year-Old Frozen Apollo 17 Moon Samples
Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been carefully stored in a freezer…
Flood Basalt Eruptions: NASA Warns That Some Volcanoes Could Warm Climate, Destroy Ozone Layer
A new NASA climate simulation suggests that extremely large volcanic eruptions called “flood basalt eruptions” could significantly warm Earth’s climate and devastate the ozone layer…
Don’t Miss: April 2022 Solar Eclipse
On April 30, 2022, a partial solar eclipse will be visible in parts of South America, Antarctica, and the Pacific and Southern Oceans. On Saturday,…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Alignment Complete – Capturing Crisp, Focused Images
NASA’s Webb In Full Focus, Ready for Instrument Commissioning The alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After a full review, the…
New Discovery Shows the Blueprint for Life May Have Been Generated in Asteroids
Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered…
Webb Space Telescope Will Study Formation, Composition, Clouds of Distant Worlds
The journey of commissioning the Webb telescope continues this week with the successful cooling of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), through the critical ‘pinch point,’ down…
Webb Space Telescope’s Coldest Instrument Reaches Operating Temperature Below Minus 447° F
With help from a cryocooler, Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument has dropped down to just a few degrees above the lowest temperature matter can reach and is…
NASA and UAE Mars Missions Agree to Share Science Data
NASA’s MAVEN mission and the United Arab Emirates’ Hope Probe mission are paving the way toward greater scientific collaboration and data exchange between the two…
Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen – A Staggering 500 Trillion Tons Headed This Way
4-Billion-Year-Old Relic From The Early Solar System Is Headed This Way Denizens of deep space, comets are among the oldest objects in the solar system….
NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope Hunts for Gravitational Waves From Monster Black Holes
Our universe is a chaotic sea of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Astronomers think waves from orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in distant…
NASA’s GEDI Mission Releases Breakthrough Forest Biomass-Carbon Product
NASA’s GEDI mission has reached a major milestone with the release of its newest data product, which provides the first near-global estimate of aboveground forest…
Webb Space Telescope’s Cool View on How Stars and Planets Form
The ongoing success of the multi-instrument optics alignment for NASA’s Webb telescope’s near-infrared instruments has moved the attention of the commissioning team to chill as…
The Geocenter of the Earth Is Changing (and Why That Matters) [Video]
At the foundation of virtually all airborne, space-based and ground-based Earth observations is the TRF, or Terrestrial Reference Frame. The TRF relies on an accurate…
Hubble Finds a Massive Planet – 9 Times the Size of Jupiter – Forming Through a Violent Process
Hubble Finds a Planet Forming in an Unconventional Way In general, the formation of planets in our universe can be likened to cooking a meal….
What Mercury’s Unusual Orbit Reveals About the Sun [Video]
Mercury is special. As the closest planet to the Sun, it occupies a region where the Sun’s influence is changing dramatically. The Sun’s magnetic field,…
