Here’s What Happens When a Supermassive Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job [Video]
A new study reveals what happens when a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy cluster stops being active. By combining data from…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Powered Up for the First Time in Interplanetary Space
Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of…
Mystery of Auroral Beads Uncovered With NASA’s THEMIS Spacecraft
A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is helping scientists better understand the science of auroras…
Incredible Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Views of Craters, Dust Devils, and Avalanches on the Red Planet
Marking its 15th anniversary since launch, one of the oldest spacecraft at the Red Planet has provided glimpses of dust devils, avalanches, and more. Since…
Hubble Finds Cause for Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming – Is Aging Red Supergiant About to Supernova?
Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of…
Sea Ice in Denmark Strait – Drifted More Than 1,000 Km (600 Miles) From the Arctic Ocean
Arctic sea ice is subject to some serious travel restrictions. Penned in by major land masses, most ice that forms in the Arctic Ocean stays…
Stunning Video of “Matchpoint” Rehearsal Shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Skimming Asteroid Surface
Yesterday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performed its final practice run of the sampling sequence, reaching an approximate altitude of 131 feet (40 meters) over sample site…
NASA Launched Laser Beams at the Moon – For the First Time, They Received a Signal Back
Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles…
NASA’s TESS – The Space Agency’s “Planet Hunter” – Completes Its Primary Mission With “Roaring Success”
On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long…
Perseids Peak Tonight: NASA Viewing Tips to Watch Best Meteor Shower of the Year
The Perseid meteor shower is here! With Comet NEOWISE making its way out of the solar system, it is time for a celestial show caused…
Mystery Solved: NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Close-Up of Ceres Reveals Origin of Mysterious Bright Regions on Dwarf Planet
Data from NASA’s recent Dawn mission answers two long-unresolved questions: Is there liquid inside Ceres, and how long ago was the dwarf planet geologically active?…
NASA Scientists Map Beirut Blast Damage – Devastating Explosion Rocked Port Area
On August 4, 2020, a devastating explosion rocked the port area around Beirut, Lebanon. After the event, scientists used satellite radar imagery to map the…
NASA Scientists Develop Instrument for Analyzing Mars’s Boundary Layer – “We Have Great Capabilities in Lidar, Space Lasers, and Detectors”
Insights and technology gleaned from creating a carbon-measuring instrument for Earth climate studies is being leveraged to build another that would remotely profile, for the…
Gorgeous Ring of Stellar Wildfire Captured by Hubble Space Telescope
NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an eccentrically-shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from…
Dazzling Photo of Chinese Port Cities at Night Taken by an Astronaut on the International Space Station
This photograph, taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS), captures the bright urban lights of two Chinese port cities. Xiamen and Quanzhou…
NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Observes Weird Glowing and Pulsing in Mars’ Night Sky
Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. The results are being used to illuminate…
Helium Structures Found in Sun’s Atmosphere by NASA Sounding Rocket
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists aren’t sure just how much there actually is in the Sun’s…
“Surfer Waves” – NASA Rocket Sees Curling Waves High Above Alaskan Sky
The “surfer waves” in this image, forming high above the Alaskan sky, illuminate the invisible currents in the upper atmosphere. They were measured by trimethyl-aluminum…