Water Vapor Confirmed on Jupiter’s Moon Europa by NASA Scientists [Video]
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first close-up images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s…
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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…
New Clues to Origin of Life on Earth From Meteorite Discovery
An international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites. The new discovery adds to the growing list of biologically important compounds that have…
Dozens of ‘Comet Crumbs’ Detected by LISA Pathfinder [Video]
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational…
“Mind Boggling” Mars Mystery As Oxygen Doesn’t Behave by Known Chemistry
For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above…
Lunar IceCube to Locate Water Resources Needed for Moon Base – Uses Ion Propulsion Thruster
As we venture forward to the Moon and establish a sustained lunar presence, finding and understanding water on the lunar surface becomes increasingly important. Lunar…
Arctic Shifts to Carbon Source – Stunning Reversal After Capturing Carbon for Tens of Thousands of Years
A NASA-funded study suggests winter carbon emissions in the Arctic may be adding more carbon into the atmosphere each year than is taken up by…
Record-Setting X-Ray Burst From Massive Thermonuclear Blast Detected From Space Station
NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station detected a sudden spike of X-rays at about 10:04 p.m. EDT on…
Unimaginable View of Milky Way From Year of Observations by NASA TESS – 29 Exoplanets Discovered
The glow of the Milky Way — our galaxy seen edgewise — arcs across a sea of stars in an incredible new mosaic of the…
Unlocking the True Nature of Dark Matter With NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
[Editor’s Note: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was officially renamed the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on May 20, 2020.] The true nature…
Astronomers Peer Into Abyss of Space and See Menacing Face Staring Back at Them
When astronomers peer deep into space, they don’t expect to find something staring back at them. In this new Hubble Space Telescope image, an uncanny…
Latest Satellite Image Shows Devastating Kincaid Fire Continues to Spread in California
California’s devastating Kincaid Fire located in Sonoma County has grown to over 66,000 acres and NASA’s Terra satellite captured this dramatic image of the smoke…
NASA Develops Super Spectrometer for Gathering Unprecedented Details About Extraterrestrial Planets
NASA Taps Telecommunications Technology to Develop More Capable, Miniaturized Spectrometer A technology that has enabled ever-faster delivery of voice and data over the Internet and…
NASA Innovator Experiments with Force Fields for Moving Matter
On a metal workbench covered with tools, instruments, cords, and bottles of solution, Aaron Yevick is using laser light to create a force field with…
NASA’s New Star-Watching Technology Has Thousands of Tiny Shutters
NASA scientists plan to demonstrate a revolutionary technology for studying hundreds of stars and galaxies at the same time — a new capability originally created…
Antarctic Ozone Hole Is the Smallest on Record Since Its Discovery [Video]
Abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion in September and October, resulting in the smallest ozone hole observed since…
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Made Major Discoveries That Revolutionized Understanding of Near-Earth Environment
After seven years of operations, and upon finally running out of propellant, the second of the twin Van Allen Probes spacecraft will be retired on…
First Confirmed Interstellar Comet Observed by Hubble [Video]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor — comet 2I/Borisov — whose speed and trajectory indicate it…