Lucy will explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids – thought to be “fossils of planet formation.” Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
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Experiments in a chamber under Martian-like conditions in a University of Oregon lab suggest that small sparks may be triggered by friction under normal atmospheric…
The slumbering giant galaxy at the center of this image is 10 billion light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Newman, M. Akhshik, K. Whitaker…
This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. Credit: NASA An international team of researchers has used seasonal variations to identify likely sub-surface…
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with the Landsat 9 satellite onboard launches, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, from Space Launch Complex 3 at…
The fireball fragmenting, observed from Sesvete in Croatia. Credit: Damir Šegon (Astronomical Society Istra Pula and Višnjan Science and Education Center, Croatia) On February 28,…
[embedded content]Animation of the Landsat 9 spacecraft in orbit around Earth, passing over the Western US and Baja California. The satellite will travel at 7.5…
Credit: ESA/Hubble, A. Riess et al., J. Greene Meet NGC 5728, a spiral galaxy around 130 million light-years from Earth. This image was captured using…
[embedded content] Since 2020, a “sonification” project has transformed astronomical data from some of the world’s most powerful telescopes into sound. Three new objects —…
Magnetic field in the massive star-forming region IRAS 18089-1732 revealed by ALMA. The colors represent the intensity of the radio waves, and the lines depict…
Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA Time capsules from the birth of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago,…
Jim Green, NASA’s Chief Science Officer—shown here speaking at a public event on Aug. 6, 2013, at NASA Headquarters observing the first anniversary of the…
This composite image shows three radio-telescope views of the central region of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), where a jet of fast-moving particles is ejected…
The 17 newly studied craters and depressions are located near the South Pole. While the smallest of these regions (region 11) has a size of…
Credit: Reaktor Space Lab Around the same size as two big Harry Potter paperbacks, ESA’s Sun-watching Sunstorm CubeSat has produced its first solar X-ray spectrum, coming just over…
This illustration depicts Mars Helicopter Ingenuity during a test flight on Mars. Ingenuity was taken to the Red Planet strapped to the belly of the…
[embedded content] NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the…
A mosaic image of the south pole of the Moon. Henson crater is located just south of de Gerlache crater, seen here to the left…
Astronomers have discovered a giant, spherical cavity within the Milky Way galaxy; its location is depicted on the right. A zoomed in view of the…
Illustrations of the projects that were selected for Phase I of the 2021 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. Credit: NASA Dozens of concepts are…