It’s Lights Out for One of NASA’s Great Observatories – Heartbreaking Goodbye
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery For more than 16 years, the infrared observatory revealed new wonders in our solar system, our…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery For more than 16 years, the infrared observatory revealed new wonders in our solar system, our…
Engineers for NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft are working to return the mission to normal operating conditions after one of the spacecraft’s autonomous fault protection routines…
The joint U.S.-European mission to study the effects of global warming on the oceans, has a new name to honor NASA’s Michael Freilich. NASA and…
A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles. Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between…
The galaxy depicted in this Hubble Picture of the Week is a barred spiral known as NGC 7541, seen here as viewed by the NASA/ESA…
Hubble welcomes the Year of the Rat with a view of its own favorite rodents, NGC 4676A and B, and highlights the planetary origins of…
Archival Data Reveals Earliest Stages of a Dramatic Event Astronomers searching archival data from NASA’s Kepler exoplanet hunting mission identified a previously unknown dwarf nova…
In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to shreds. Massive gas giants called “hot Jupiters” — planets that orbit too close…
Preliminary results indicate that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission’s Reconnaissance B phase…
Enceladus’ subsurface ocean composition hints at habitable conditions. A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from…
Nine finalists have been chosen in the essay contest for K-12 students across U.S. to name NASA’s next Mars rover. Now you can help by…
NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite….
The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful, and most technologically challenging space telescope ever built. The Webb Telescope is so large; it…
Orange Dwarf Stars Most Likely to Host Planets To date astronomers have discovered over 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Statistically, there should be over 100…
New Hubble Measurement Strengthens Discrepancy in Universe’s Expansion Rate People use the phrase “Holy Cow” to express excitement. Playing with that phrase, researchers from an…
When giant white swirls of clouds cover the weather map with a winter storm warning, one question looms in the minds of people in its…
According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since…
This bright, somewhat blob-like object — seen in this stunning picture as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — is a galaxy named NGC…