A Real ‘Galactic Portal’ – This Is an Actual Hubble Picture, Not CGI
The galaxy NGC 4380 looks like a special effect straight out of a science fiction or fantasy film in this Hubble Picture of the Week,…
The galaxy NGC 4380 looks like a special effect straight out of a science fiction or fantasy film in this Hubble Picture of the Week,…
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, have used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high frame-rate movie of a growing black…
Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster as X-ray magnifying lens. The new lens technique spots tiny dwarf galaxy in the first, super-energetic stages of star formation….
October 11, 2019, marked the 25th anniversary of the end of a space mission that transformed the way we use radar to observe large-scale environmental…
Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it’s too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to…
The first all-electric configuration of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell now is at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The X-57, NASA’s first all-electric…
After successfully launching Thursday night, NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft is in orbit for a first-of-its-kind mission to study a region of space where…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope sees galaxies of all shapes, sizes, luminosities, and orientations in the cosmos. Sometimes, the telescope gazes at a galaxy oriented…
New research sheds light on the ages of ice deposits reported in the area of the Moon’s south pole — information that could help identify…
The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon’s south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no…
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions…
Our Milky Way is a thrifty galaxy. Supernovae and powerful stellar winds eject gas from the galactic disk; nonetheless, this gas returns to the galaxy…
Eight briefcase-size satellites flying in a row may be key to improving forecasts of a hurricane’s wind speed – detecting whether it will make landfall…
At first glance, NASA’s new spacesuit that will be worn on Artemis missions might look like the suits that astronauts use for spacewalks outside the…
Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic fields, and particles like ions, cosmic rays, and…
If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA’s Curiosity…
In this picture from September 28, 2019, engineers and technicians working on the assembly and testing of the Mars 2020 spacecraft look on as a…
The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science…