This 3D view of asteroid Bennu was created by the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), contributed by the Canadian Space Agency. From Feb. 12 to Feb.…
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These images show the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu: Nightingale, Kingfisher, Osprey and Sandpiper. One of these four sites will ultimately be…
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 6, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1…
Illustration of Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft to…
This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that occurred on September 26, 2018 and dissipated over the next…
RELL Engineering Development Unit (left) pictured alongside RiTS flight unit that will fly to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX-19. Credit: NASA Sometimes robots need…
This image shows the Vikram Lander impact point and associated debris field. Green dots indicate spacecraft debris (confirmed or likely). Blue dots locate disturbed soil,…
View of cranberry bogs above Little Trout Lake in northern Wisconsin on Oct. 18, 2018, from NASA-USGS Landsat 8 data. Some of the cranberries have…
The dwarf galaxy Sculptor, above, is a companion to the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers will use Webb to study the motions of stars in Sculptor…
Earth’s magnetosphere, showing the northern and southern polar cusps. Credit: Andøya Space Center/Trond Abrahamsen Each second, 1.5 million tons of solar material shoot off of…
Ground-based facilities have detected radiation up to a trillion times the energy of visible light from a cosmic explosion called a gamma-ray burst (GRB). This…
New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have investigated the nature of the powerful gamma-ray burst GRB 190114C by studying its environment. Shown in this…
Artist’s concept of meteors impacting ancient Earth. Some scientists think such impacts may have delivered water and other molecules useful to emerging life on Earth.…
LISA Pathfinder, led by the European Space Agency (ESA), is designed to test technologies that could one day detect gravitational waves. Gravitational waves, predicted by…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover imaged these drifting clouds on May 17, 2019, the 2,410th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, using its black-and-white Navigation…
Illustration of Lunar IceCube in orbit. Credit: Morehead State University As we venture forward to the Moon and establish a sustained lunar presence, finding and…
The Active Sensing of Carbon Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons (ASCENDS) campaign flew over Nome, Alaska, on August 5, 2017, as part of NASA’s…
Illustration depicting a Type I X-ray burst. The explosion first blows off the hydrogen layer, which expands and ultimately dissipates. Then rising radiation builds to…
This animated GIF builds up the southern sky mosaic from 13 TESS sectors. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS The glow of the Milky Way — our galaxy seen…
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to resemble a ghostly face.…