The Interstellar Medium: Crossing the Cosmic Void
Humanity’s great leap into the space between the stars has, in a sense, already begun. NASA’s Voyager 1 probe broke through the sun’s magnetic bubble…
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NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Captures New Image of Jupiter
This newly released Juno image highlights the seventh of eight features forming a ‘string of pearls’ on Jupiter. This image, taken by the JunoCam imager…
NASA’s New Global View of CO2, Critical Step for Carbon-Cycle Science
NASA’s new global view of carbon dioxide builds on the agency’s previous satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system…
Juno Mission Prepares for Jupiter Flyby
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter on Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST. At the time of closest approach…
NASA Runs First-Ever Test of New “Propulsor” Jet Engine Tech
Aerospace engineers believe they can reduce fuel consumption by embedding an aircraft’s engines into the boundary layer to ingesting the boundary layer air flow. Car,…
AIM Spacecraft Observes Early Noctilucent Ice Clouds Over Antarctica
Data from NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere spacecraft shows the sky over Antarctica is glowing electric blue due to the start of noctilucent,…
Astronomers Probe Mystery of Pluto’s Icy Heart
New research looks to solve the many mysteries of Pluto’s icy heart-shaped feature. Was Pluto’s frozen heart formed in an ancient impact basin and was…
NASA’s SOFIA Set To Study New Frontiers in the Solar System and Beyond
NASA’s SOFIA flying Observatory set to study planets, comets and asteroids orbiting other stars and supermassive black holes. NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA,…
Get Ready for the November Supermoon
Don’t miss the upcoming supermoon on Monday, November 14. It will be the closest full moon to Earth since 1948 and we won’t see another…
Astronomers Explain Mysterious Dimming of Markarian 1018
By combining data from Chandra, VLT and several other telescopes, astronomers reveal that the dimming of Markarian 1018 arises from the black hole at the…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Measures a Day on Saturn
Measuring the exact length of a Saturn day is turning out to be a bigger challenge than originally thought. Over more than a decade in…
New “Morphing” Wing Could Enable More Efficient Plane Flight
Engineers at MIT and NASA have developed a new kind of bendable, “morphing” wing that could enable more efficient plane manufacturing and flight. When the…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures a Partial Solar Eclipse
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory experienced a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun. The moon’s shadow…
10 Years of Revolutionary Solar Views from NASA’s STEREO Mission
Ten years ago the twin STEREO spacecraft joined a fleet of NASA spacecraft monitoring the sun and its influence on Earth and space – and…
Astronomers Discover Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets
A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers have discovered a star surrounded by the oldest known circumstellar disk — a primordial ring of gas…
LRO Spacecraft Reveals Earth’s Moon Hit by Surprising Number of Meteoroids
A newly published study reveals that a random bombardment by comets, asteroids and associated fragments are altering the lunar surface at a higher rate than…
Scientists Predict the Next Global Dust Storm on Mars
Based on a historical pattern, scientists believe they can predict the occurrence of dust storms on Mars. Global dust storms on Mars could soon become…
Hubble Spots Possible Water Plumes on Europa
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. This finding bolsters…