Shining New Light on Dark Matter: Kathryn Zurek talks about the ongoing search for an invisible substance that permeates the galaxy. About 80 percent of…
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Lawrence Livermore researchers compared results of asteroid deflection simulations to experimental data and found that the strength model has a substantial effect on momentum transferred.…
NASA and Frontier Aerospace are developing next-generation thrusters for use on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander. In March 2020, thruster prototypes performed over 60 hot-fire tests…
Illustration of a planetary collision. Credit: NASA Researchers supported in part by the NASA Astrobiology program are providing new insight into the late stages of…
Three of the six flight wheels that will travel to Mars can be seen attached to NASA’s Perseverance rover (which is inverted on a handling…
Here at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Ohio, USA, Orion is being put into a thermal cage in preparation of getting its first feel of…
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the Crew Dragon spacecraft, with NASA astronauts aboard, on the company’s second demonstration flight and first crewed…
WFIRST will make its microlensing observations in the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The higher density of stars will yield more…
Thousands of Americans apply to be the next Artemis generation astronauts. NASA astronaut Scott Tingle is pictured during a spacewalk to swap out a degraded…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror in a recent test. This is the same configuration it will have when in space.…
This artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin, rotating disc of…
NASA’s Mars Helicopter and its cruise stage undergo functional testing in the airlock inside Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on March 10, 2020.…
Artist’s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft in cruise configuration, with Mercury in the background. On its 7.2 year journey to the innermost planet, BepiColombo will…
Future moon bases could be built with 3D printers that mix materials such as moon regolith, water, and astronauts’ urine. Credit: ESA, Foster and Partners…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Leonard This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast,…
University of Arizona researchers probed Martian meteorites to reconstruct Mars’ chaotic history. Their findings suggest that Mars might not have had a global magma ocean.…
The NEXT-C flight thruster is mounted within a thermal shroud in one of NASA Glenn’s vacuum chambers. The thermal shroud subjects the thruster to the…
Voyager 2 took this image as it approached the planet Uranus on January 14, 1986. The planet’s hazy bluish color is due to the methane…
Artist impression of a double-star system. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Humans have been studying the light from stars since the beginning of our history; however, we’ve…
An Atlas V rocket launches at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, to take an AEHF-6 satellite into orbit, March 26, 2020. The sophisticated communications…