Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The science performed by the complex suite of instruments recently added to the Europa Clipper spacecraft…
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The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, led by ESA (European Space Agency) with NASA contributions, will detect gravitational waves in space using three spacecraft,…
ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organization) Vikram lander, with a NASA retroreflector on it, touched down on the Moon on August 23, 2023. The camera aboard…
Graphic depiction of A Lunar Long-Baseline Optical Imaging Interferometer: Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI). Credit: Kenneth Carpenter NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a new structure within the Beta Pictoris system, resembling a cat’s tail. This discovery, led by Isabel Rebollido,…
XRISM’s Resolve instrument captured data from supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud to create the most detailed X-ray spectrum of the object ever…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has created a stunning all-sky time-lapse movie from 14 years of data, capturing the dynamic universe. It highlights the Sun’s…
OSIRIS-REx, now OSIRIS-APEX, is on a mission to study asteroid Apophis, utilizing its close approach to Earth in 2029. After successfully returning a sample from…
GPS satellites support Earth measurements by relaying information to other satellites. Laser retroreflector arrays (LRAs) are improving this process, enhancing the accuracy of geodesy –…
This photo of Saturn was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850 million miles from…
NASA’s ILLUMA-T payload in a Goddard cleanroom. The payload was installed on the International Space Station to demo higher data rates with NASA’s Laser Communications…
Hubble drifts over Earth after its release on May 19, 2009 by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The crew had performed all planned…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a record-breaking small brown dwarf, only three to four times the mass of Jupiter. This finding challenges current…
In December 2022, NASA’s MAVEN mission observed a rare solar event causing the solar wind to “disappear.” This led to significant changes in Mars’ atmosphere…
The James Webb Space Telescope’s new image of Cassiopeia A (Cas A) provides a detailed look at the supernova remnant, revealing new features and offering…
Artist’s impression of AWE mapping the properties of global mesospheric gravity waves. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is…
OSIRIS-REx collected a half-pound sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu in October 2020. The mission’s sample return capsule landed with the aid of a…
NASA’s Hubble Telescope accurately measured LTT 1445Ac, an Earth-sized exoplanet in a nearby triple star system. Initially discovered by TESS, this rocky planet is similar…
NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft in orbit over Earth. The PACE observatory will help us better understand how the ocean and atmosphere…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided evidence supporting the theory that icy pebbles drift inward from the colder parts of protoplanetary disks to form…