NASA Study Shows Change in Water ‘Fingerprint’ of Comet Lovejoy
A new study suggests that a trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet. Astronomers…
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NASA’s Juno Mission to Continue Its Exciting Journey of Discovery
NASA has decided to forego a previously-planned engine firing and allow Juno to remain in its current orbit for the remainder of the mission. This…
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate Selects Proposals for Space Research Institutes
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate has selected proposals for the creation of two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes that will focus on the development of technologies…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Makes Its Fourth Flyby Over Jupiter’s Mysterious Cloud Tops
Today NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops. At the time of closest approach (called perijove), Juno will be…
New HiRISE Image of Martian Dunes in Northern Summer
This newly released HiRISE image shows dunes on the surface of Mars during the Martian northern summer. This dune field formed near the base of…
NuSTAR Helps Solve Forty-Year-Old Neutron Star Mystery
Astronomers may have solved a 40-year-old mystery surrounding a neutron star in the “Rapid Burster” system. Scientists observing a curious neutron star in a binary…
New NASA Mission Will Visit Metal Asteroid 16 Psyche
NASA has announced a new mission that will send an unmanned spacecraft to a large asteroid in the primary asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter….
Hubble Detects ‘Exocomets’ Plunging Into Young Star HD 172555
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered comets plunging into young star HD 172555, which resides 95 light-years from Earth. The exocomets — comets outside our…
New NASA Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries
A new NASA mission will allow astronomers to explore the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar…
NEOWISE Mission Spots One Comet, Maybe Two
NASA’s NEOWISE mission has discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet. An object called…
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…
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,…