NASA Explores Splitting “Dent” in Earth’s Protective Magnetic Shield [Video]
Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America and the…
Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America and the…
Eleven years after the launch of the first H-II Transfer cargo vehicle (HTV) to the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) HTV-9…
An tiny aseroid flew past our planet over the weekend and was detected by a NASA-funded asteroid survey as it departed. Near Earth Asteroids, or…
In 2001, Dubai started construction on three large artificial islands in the Persian Gulf shaped like palm trees. A few years later, Doha began dredging…
The board will assist with analysis of current plans and goals for one of the most difficult missions humanity has ever undertaken. NASA has established…
Australian meteorologists took note recently when not one—but two—vast bands of clouds stretched from the eastern Indian Ocean to Australia, channeling streams of moisture that…
A small but evolving dent in Earth’s magnetic field can cause big headaches for satellites. Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the…
The James Webb Space Telescope is an international endeavor with widespread global contributions and experts in more than a dozen countries dedicated to the build,…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spectacular galaxy NGC 2442. This galaxy was host to a supernova explosion, known as SN2015F,…
Two of Earth’s most colorful upper atmospheric phenomena, aurora and airglow, met just before dawn in this photo shot by an astronaut on the International…
With 2020 more than half way through, NASA is gearing up for a busy rest of the year and 2021. Following the recent successful launch…
As the United States moves into the last weeks of climatological summer, one-third of the country is experiencing at least a moderate level of drought….
For several weeks in the summer of 2020, NASA’s Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, had the solar system’s best view of the star…
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…
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…
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…
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 Detects Dense, Heated Material Moving Through the Star’s Atmosphere The aging, bright-red supergiant star Betelgeuse has captivated skywatchers since antiquity. The ancient astronomer Ptolemy…