Artist’s impression of the surface of Gliese 486b. Credit: enderArea A rocky planet discovered in the Virgo constellation is an astronomer’s dream. A newly discovered…
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This is the compass image for VY Canis Majoris, showing the orientation and filters used. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Humphreys (University of Minnesota), and…
What’s Up for March? Mars and friends in the evening, and a brilliant pair of planets returns… In the first week or so of March,…
On the left, data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a portion of the remains of an exploded star known as supernova 1987A. On the…
This image was taken during the first drive of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars on March 4, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The first trek of the…
This artist’s illustration represents the possible interior dynamics of the super-Earth exoplanet LHS 3844b. The planet’s interior properties and the strong stellar irradiation might lead…
This illustration shows a concept of how the NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle could be launched from the surface of Mars in one step of the…
Examples of gravitational lenses found in the DESI Legacy Survey data. Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys/LBNL/DOE & KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Machine learning key to discovery of over…
High-resolution illustration of the Roman spacecraft against a starry background. Credit: NASA NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to explore even more…
What’s Up for March? Mars and friends in the evening, and a brilliant pair of planets returns… In the first week or so of March,…
A schematic view of the vortex around the possible exoplanet-in-the-making around the star HD 163296. The bright yellow spot in the upper right indicates an…
A coronal mass ejection, or CME, erupting into space on August 31, 2012. Pictured here is a blended version of the 171 and 304 angstrom…
An artist’s conception of the magnetic fields of selected super-Earths as the Z machine, pictured at bottom, mimics the gravitational conditions on other planets. Planetary…
NASA’s $10 Billion James Webb Space Telescope Completes Final Functional Tests to Prepare for Launch
NASA’s $10 Billion James Webb Space Telescope Completes Final Functional Tests to Prepare for Launch
Shown with its primary mirror fully deployed, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most technically complex space science telescope NASA has ever…
The solar corona viewed in white light during the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 from Mitchell, Oregon. The moon blocks out the central…
Illustration of the Lucy mission’s seven targets: the binary asteroid Patroclus/Menoetius, Eurybates, Orus, Leucus, Polymele, and the main belt asteroid DonaldJohanson. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space…
September 15, 2017 Astronauts have snapped numerous photos of the light show from their unique perch on the International Space Station. There are few experiences…
Artist illustration of the formation of the solar system, capturing the moment where radioactive nuclei got incorporated into solids that would become meteorites. Credit: Bill…
This illustration shows a conceptual lunar railway system called FLOAT (Flexible Levitation on a Track) that has been selected for an early-stage feasibility study within…
The giant canopy that helped land Perseverance on Mars was tested here on Earth at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Test. Test again. Test…