A fantastic new class of star-forming nursery, known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules, or frEGGs for short, imaged with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Located…
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This illustration shows the moment after liftoff of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft begins the first part of its…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater a little after 3:40…
An electric Hall thruster, identical to those that will be used to propel NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, undergoes testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The blue…
Asteroid 65803 Didymos is a binary near-Earth asteroid; the primary body has a diameter of around 780 m and a rotation period of 2.26 hours,…
This artist’s concept, updated as of June 2020, depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is pivoting from planning…
NASA’s AIRS instrument captured this image of Tropical Storm Fay around 2 p.m. local time on July 10, 2020, as the storm swept through New…
This artist’s concept shows a brown dwarf, a ball of gas not massive enough to power itself the way stars do. Despite their name, brown…
The movement of sand grains in the scoop on the end of NASA InSight’s robotic arm suggests that the spacecraft’s self-hammering “mole,” which is in…
Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean so far in 2020 have set the stage for an active hurricane season…
An artist’s concept of active volcanos on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior at the topographic trench.…
Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE appears as a string of fuzzy red dots in this composite of several heat-sensitive infrared images taken by NASA’s Near-Earth Object…
As seen in this artist’s concept, the SHERLOC instrument is located on the end of the robotic arm of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
Illustration of Artemis astronauts on the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA has selected four U.S. small businesses to mature a range of technologies for sustainable exploration…
Image Credit & Copyright: Maroun Habib (Moophz) A comet has suddenly become visible to the unaided eye. Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered in late…
This visualization was created from images captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which has been studying Jupiter since it arrived there July 4, 2016. Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI…
July 6, 2020 A young volcanic island has been growing in the western Pacific Ocean since 2013. Since mid-June 2020, it has been going through…
Hubble Space Telescope of galaxy NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 60 million light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Stiavelli Captured by…
June 27, 2020 Winds routinely drive clouds of Saharan dust out of West Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean in the summer. But the intensity…
NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Flight Engineer Bob Behnken works during a six-hour and one-minute spacewalk to swap an aging nickel-hydrogen battery for a new…