Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star…
The newly discovered planet and its Earth-size sibling are both in the habitable zone, where liquid water could potentially exist on their surfaces. Using data…
Astronomers have discovered a nearby galaxy that is similar to galaxies in the distant, early universe by looking past the bright light of a foreground…
Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly. NGC 6956 is a barred spiral galaxy, a common…
NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Find Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water In the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film “Waterworld” Earth’s polar ice caps have completely melted,…
Exhaust from Infalling Comets Makes Space a Dusty Place Imagine walking into a room at night, turning off all the lights, and closing the shades….
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists ran 100 sophisticated simulations exploring jets — narrow beams of energetic particles — that emerge at nearly light speed…
Observations of Exoplanet WASP-39b show fingerprints of atoms and molecules, as well as signs of active chemistry and clouds. WASP-39 b is a planet unlike…
Venus may have been transformed from a temperate and wet world to the acidic hothouse it is today with help from vast volcanic activity lasting…
Webb’s NIRCam Instrument Shows the Beginning of Protostar Evolution NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details surrounding the dark cloud L1527 and its…
Blast from the Past Caught in Episodes Due to Gravitational Lensing Light from a star that exploded over 11 billion years ago was captured by…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to help researchers detect more kilonovae, helping us learn significantly more about these “all-star” smashups. How do you pinpoint…
The Flame Nebula, also known as NGC 2024, is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that is located approximately 1,400 light-years from Earth….
NASA’s Lucy made a close fly-by of planet Earth on October 16, as part of a gravity assist maneuver. Shortly before its closest approach, the…
Reach for the stars because you might just become one! Drina Shah has a fascination with space exploration and engineering. Engineering and space exploration are…
Near-Infrared Light Uncovers Vast Populations of Forming Stars, Many Still Encased in Dust NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured this glittering view of…
The Geotail mission, a joint venture between NASA, ISAS, and JAXA, faces challenges following the failure of its last operational data recorder, suspending the collection…
On Thursday, October 13, at around 6:30 p.m. EDT NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey (TESS) began its return to normal operations. Engineers successfully powered up the…
