This animation shows the preliminary design for the spacecraft, including hexagonal sun shields that will help keep the instruments cool. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The observatory will…
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid…
NASA Astronaut Stephanie D. Wilson. Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson is a member of the Artemis Team, a select group of astronauts charged with…
On Earth snow condenses at altitude because air dilates during ascending movements, and thus cools (at the rate of 1°C approximately every 100 m). On…
A view of the full Gateway configuration with Orion approaching Gateway. Credit: NASA The Artemis generation of lunar explorers will establish a sustained human presence…
591 high velocity stars’ positions and orbits. Credit: Kong Xiao of NAOC A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy…
NASA’s astromaterials sample collections, which include a library of Apollo lunar and Antarctic meteorite samples, are now offered online through a new virtual exploration tool…
This series of images from the WISPR instrument on board Parker Solar Probe shows a small sungrazing comet, SOHO-4063, as it approached the Sun on…
NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli is a member of the Artemis Team, a select group of astronauts charged with…
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 6946, which has earned the nickname the “Fireworks Galaxy.” Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Leroy, K. S.…
NASA’s James Webb telescope mirror undergoing cryogenic testing. Ball Aerospace/Flickr, CC BY-SA Space exploration achieved several notable firsts in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, including…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the heart of nearby active galaxy IC 5063 reveals a mixture of bright rays and dark shadows coming from…
Star formation. Credit: University of Zurich How stars form in galaxies remains a major open question. Robert Feldmann sheds new light on this topic with…
A section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/P.S. Teixeira (Center for Astrophysics) Newborn stars, hidden behind thick…
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have developed a prototype detector of solar particles. The device is capable of picking up…
This is an illustration of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. A quasar emits exceptionally large amounts of energy generated by…
Composite image of the Orion Nebula, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI Gaseous swirls of hydrogen,…
What are some skywatching highlights in January 2021? Mark Earth’s closest approach to the Sun for the year, called perihelion, at the start of the…
This video shows the drastic changes to the planetary nebula Hen 3-1357, nicknamed the Stingray nebula, over two decades as captured by NASA’s Hubble Space…
Example of the clouds identified in a small section of the SEDIGISM survey. Credit: Cardiff University Survey of the sky pushes the boundaries of what…