NASA’s X-59 QueSST Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Cleared for Final Assembly
NASA’s first large scale, piloted X-plane in more than three decades is cleared for final assembly and integration of its systems following a major project…
NASA’s first large scale, piloted X-plane in more than three decades is cleared for final assembly and integration of its systems following a major project…
New Generations, Equipped with New Technologies, Prepare to Analyze 50-Year-Old Samples in the New Year Fortunately for today’s scientists, Apollo-era leaders had the foresight to…
New data from the first two orbits by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Outbursts of energetic particles that hurtle out from the sun and can disrupt…
All of a sudden a tiny NASA-funded satellite, one of many passengers aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, shot into the sky on a mission to…
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dust that stretches over 500 light-years across….
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light around a nearby pulsar. If visible to the human eye,…
NASA’s next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on December 17, 2019, found that the rover checked…
A feature resembling a candy cane appears at the center of this colorful composite image of our Milky Way galaxy’s central zone. But this is…
Jupiter’s south pole has a new cyclone. The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred on November 3, 2019, during the most recent data-gathering flyby…
Astronaut Christina Koch recently gave a warm welcome to a very cool arrival to the International Space Station: a new piece of hardware for the…
This Hubblecast explores how the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s observations differ across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and how these observations will be complemented…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of Mensa (The Table Mountain), lying about 85…
ALMA Spots Earliest Environment Pollution in the Universe Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around…
NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where…
Researchers have created the first map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of a planet besides Earth, using data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft that…
After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu’s boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission has officially selected a sample collection site….
JAXA and NASA satellite observations show where killer electrons are generated in the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth. A collaboration between researchers in Japan,…