Space Flight Destroys Red Blood Cells
It’s really true: space wants to kill us. And this time, space is trying to kill us from the inside out. A new study on…
It’s really true: space wants to kill us. And this time, space is trying to kill us from the inside out. A new study on…
On Monday, January 24, engineers plan to instruct NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to complete a final correction burn. This will place it into its…
Flight 19 for NASA’s Ingenuity is scheduled to take place no earlier than Sunday, January 23, 2022. The atmosphere of Mars is much less dense…
Everything we see in the universe is a snapshot of the past: As light takes its time to reach our telescopes, the system we’re observing…
A team of astrophysicists has created a simulated image that shows how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could conduct a mega-exposure similar to but…
The Sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on January 20, 2022, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EST. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly,…
A U.S. resupply ship will wait at least one extra day to undock from the International Space Station while being packed with critical research samples…
On the evening of Tuesday, January 18, 2022, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory entered into safe mode, suspending pointed science observations. The mission team is…
Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk at 2:28 p.m. EST yesterday after 7 hours and 11 minutes. Shkaplerov and…
Last week, the Webb team began moving the observatory’s individual mirror segments out of their launch positions. Today, we hear from Erin Wolf, Webb program…
Dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 continues to make a big impact, defying astronomers’ expectations. Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart…
Several Earth-observing satellites collected data during and after the potent blast. One of the most potent volcanic eruptions in decades has obliterated a small, uninhabited…
NASA and Boeing continue making progress toward the agency’s upcoming Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s…
The Expedition 66 crew is getting ready for a spacewalk on Wednesday while packing a U.S. resupply ship for its departure on Friday. Meanwhile, the…
Managed for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near-Earth objects,…
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174, as seen by NASA’s Spitzer Space…
Webb’s science goals cover a very broad range of themes, and will tackle many open questions in astronomy. They can be divided into four main…
The infrared observatory may help answer questions about planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, including how they form and what drives weather in their…