A Small, Bright Surprise: Two Views of a Sungrazing Comet
When scientists downlinked data from Parker Solar Probe’s sixth orbit, there was a small, bright surprise waiting for them: the spacecraft’s first observation of a…
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Scientists Tracked Arctic Animals’ Movement Patterns for Three Decades – This Is What They Found
For animals in the Arctic, life is a balancing act. Seasonal cues, such as warmer spring temperatures or cooler temperatures in the fall, tell animals…
Meteorite Discovery: Key Building Block for Organic Molecules
Scientists from Japan and NASA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule that may have been used to build other organic…
NASA’s AIM Mission Spots First Night-Shining Clouds of Antarctic Summer
Summer in Antarctica is marked by days in which the Sun never sets, balmy temperatures that hover as high as freezing, and electric-blue clouds of…
NASA Finds What a Glacier’s Slope Reveals About Future Greenland Ice Sheet Thinning
As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to their role in future ice thinning and sea-level rise…
Astronomers May Have Spotted a Nanoflare on the Sun – First Predicted 48 Years Ago to Solve a Major Mystery
Researchers may have found the long-sought “nanoflares” thought to heat the solar corona to its incredible temperatures. A new study published in Nature Astronomy marks…
Hubble Space Telescope Releases Images of 30 Celestial Gems For 30th Anniversary
The Hubble Space Telescope turned 30 this year, and for the occasion, it’s sharing a present with you. NASA has just released dozens of newly…
Recently Discovered Comet Seen Flying Past the Sun During Total Solar Eclipse
As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on December 14, 2020, unbeknownst to skywatchers, a little tiny speck was flying past the Sun…
NASA James Webb Space Telescope’s Sunshield Successfully Unfolds and Tensions in Final Tests
Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA’s fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed a final series of…
The Outer Planets: Hubble Space Telescopes’s Continuing Legacy [Video]
What is OPAL? OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) is a project to obtain long time baseline observations of the outer planets in order to understand…
ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Celebrates a Quarter-Century in Space
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory launched on December 2, 1995. A joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, SOHO’s original operating phase was…
Asteroid Ryugu Sample Collected in Space and Delivered to Earth – Now NASA Astrobiologists Prepare to Probe It
On December 6 local time (December 5 in the United States), Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped a capsule to the ground of the Australian Outback from…
Hubble Voyage of Discovery: Opening Our Eyes to the Grandeur and Mystery of Space [Video]
The Hubble Space Telescope has transformed our understanding of the universe, its view from orbit unleashing a flood of cosmic discoveries that have changed astronomy…
Hubble Space Telescope Explains Oddball Galaxy’s Missing Dark Matter
In 2018 an international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories uncovered, for the first time, a galaxy in…
NASA Uses Powerful Supercomputers and AI to Map Earth’s Trees, Discovers Billions of Trees in West African Drylands
Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees…
Heat and Dust Help Launch Martian Water High Into the Atmosphere Where It’s Lost to Space
Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, spacecraft have discovered that water vapor near the surface of the Red…
Aurora-Chasing Citizen Scientists Bring Us a Step Closer to Solving the STEVE Mystery
In 2018, a new aurora-like discovery struck the world. From 2015 to 2016, citizen scientists reported 30 instances of a purple ribbon in the sky,…
Rising Waters: Beating Back the Tides
It was a sight you don’t normally see: a jellyfish lying dead in the middle of a parking lot partly submerged in water. But this…