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….
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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…
Bennu Site Selection for NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Return Mission
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is just days away from selecting the site where the spacecraft will snag a sample from asteroid Bennu. After a lengthy and…
Asteroid Bennu’s Mysterious Particle Events Explained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx [Video]
Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s science team revealed that the asteroid could be active, or…
5 Astonishing New Discoveries From NASA’s Parker Solar Probe [Video]
In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft to the Sun. With cutting-edge scientific instruments to measure the…
“Very Surprised!” – NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Mission Catches an Explosive Comet Outburst
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland, have captured a clear start-to-finish…
“Robot Hotel” Launching to the International Space Station on SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
Sometimes robots need a place to stay in space, too. NASA is attaching a “robot hotel” to the outside of the International Space Station with…
India’s Vikram Lander Crash Site Found on Moon [Images]
The Chandrayaan 2 Vikram lander was targeted for a highland smooth plain about 600 kilometers from the south pole; unfortunately the Indian Space Research Organisation…
How Satellites Track Status of Nation’s Food Supply and Help Farmers
Farmers across the Midwest are in a race to finish harvesting their corn, soybean, and other staples of the Thanksgiving dinner table before the first…
NASA to Unveil the Secrets of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies and Properties of Dark Matter
In two separate studies using NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers will observe dwarf galaxy companions to the Milky Way and…
NASA Rockets Investigating Strange Phenomena Near Earth’s Poles That Makes Tech Go Haywire
Each second, 1.5 million tons of solar material shoot off of the Sun and out into space, traveling at hundreds of miles per second. Known…
New Era in Gamma-Ray Science with NASA Fermi, Swift Missions
A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have produced the highest-energy light yet seen from…
Gamma-Ray Burst With Highest Energy Ever Seen – A Trillion Times More Powerful Than Visible Light
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the most energetic outburst ever seen in the universe — a blast…
Water Vapor Confirmed on Jupiter’s Moon Europa by NASA Scientists [Video]
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s…
2019 Transit of Mercury Across the Sun in Stunning 4K [Video]
Starting around approximately 1200 – 1808 UTC (7:00 am – 1:38 pm ET) November 11, 2019, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watched as Mercury moved across…
