Incredible Power of Shock Waves in a Nova Explosion Revealed by NASA’s Fermi and NuSTAR
Unprecedented observations of a nova outburst in 2018 by a trio of satellites, including two NASA missions, have captured the first direct evidence that most…
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NASA’s Asteroid Sampling Spacecraft to Pursue Its First Practice Run
In August, a robotic spacecraft will make NASA’s first-ever attempt to descend to the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample, and ultimately bring it…
Dramatic NASA Satellite Images Show 30% Drop in Air Pollution Over Northeast U.S. From COVID-19 Lockdown
Nitrogen dioxide, primarily emitted from burning fossil fuels for transportation and electricity generation, can be used as an indicator of changes in human activity. The…
NASA Is Sending Dragonfly on a Revolutionary Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan – Here’s Why
Titan, with its methane seas and orange smog, is in some ways the most similar world to Earth that we have found. Though it’s merely…
NASA WFIRST Will Detect Exoplanets Using Warped Space-Time
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NASA’s New $10 Billion Space Telescope Successfully Deploys Massive Mirror
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space as part of a recent…
Quasar Tsunamis Tear Across Interstellar Space Wreaking Havoc on Galaxies
Using the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered the most energetic outflows ever witnessed in the universe. They…
Astronomers Map Dark Matter Filaments Holding Universe Together With Some Help From Slime Mold
Feasting Behavior of Brainless Organisms Shows Astronomers Where to Point the Hubble Telescope A simple single-cell organism that may be growing on your lawn is…
Features on Asteroid Bennu Now Have Official Names – Based on Mythological Creatures
Asteroid Bennu’s most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71 ft (21.7 m) from the asteroid’s southern hemisphere, finally has a name. The boulder…
Jaw Dropping 4K Views of the Moon Apollo 13 Astronauts Saw on Their Perilous Journey Around the Farside
This video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13…
OSIRIS-REx Swoops Over Sample Site Nightingale on Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. Yesterday, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft executed…
WFIRST Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission Greenlit by NASA
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project has passed a critical programmatic and technical milestone, giving the mission the official green light to begin…
Unexpected Glimpse of Newly Discovered Black Hole Caught by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light-years away….
Surprising New Data From Hubble Shows Sombrero Galaxy’s Halo Conceals a Turbulent Past
Surprising new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suggests the smooth, settled “brim” of the Sombrero galaxy’s disk may be concealing a turbulent past. Hubble’s…
10 Amazing Discoveries About the Sun From NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year in space. Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept…
Devastating Landslides Are Common in High Mountain Asia – Climate Change Could Trigger More
More frequent and intense rainfall events due to climate change could cause more landslides in the High Mountain Asia region of China, Tibet and Nepal,…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Completes Osprey Flyover – But There Was a Problem
On February 11, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of the backup sample collection site Osprey as part of the mission’s…
NASA’s New Space Telescope Will Seek Atmospheres Around Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
Larger, gas giant exoplanets will also fall under the James Webb Space Telescope’s gaze The TRAPPIST-1 system of exoplanets holds exciting possibilities in the search…
