A Sun-like star, located in a galaxy about 500 million light-years away, is being incrementally devoured by a black hole, shedding a mass equivalent to…
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Illustration of SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. Credit:…
Hubble Constant Tension Mystery Deepens: Webb Space Telescope Measures the Universe’s Expansion Rate
Combined observations from NASA’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and Hubble’s WFC3 (Wide Field Camera 3) show spiral galaxy NGC 5584, which resides 72 million light-years away…
A team is greater than the sum of its parts – the trio of legged robots during a test in a Swiss gravel quarry. Credit:…
The Soyuz rocket is seen after being rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, September 12, 2023, at the Baikonur…
Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics have developed a new way to measure UV sources using the Swift/UVOT…
The sample return capsule experiences maximum heating in Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab Here’s How the September 24 Asteroid Sample Delivery…
An artist’s representation of matter in the early universe slowly coalescing into large cosmic structures in the late universe. Credit: Minh Nguyen, University of Michigan…
Animation showing the formation of a supernova remnant. New research, which will utilize advanced telescopes and blend machine learning with manual observation, hopes to double…
Image of the Terra Sirenum and its gullies captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ.…
Four main components on the Roscosmos segment of the International Space Station are pictured as the orbital outpost soared 265 miles above a cloudy Pacific…
Artist’s view of the configuration of Ariane 6 using four boosters (A64). Credit: ESA – D. Ducros ESA’s Ariane 6 vehicle tested its Vinci and…
Engineer Abel Dizon explains how drop tests are conducted for a prototype lander being designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Mars Sample Return…
Plasma flows along closed magnetic field lines in the corona that pull it back toward the solar surface, forming structures that appear to loop. Credit:…
This artist concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. In…
On September 16, 2022, a homemade motion-detecting camera set up by Daichi Fujii near Mount Fuji, Japan, captured green laser light from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite.…
A milestone for NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded…
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will launch in April 2023 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 rocket. Credit: ESA,…
The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship approaches the International Space Station on March 16, 2023. Both spacecraft were flying 269 miles above the Indian Ocean near…
The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) —is a SmallSat mission that will characterize the electric currents that link Earth’s aurora to the planet’s magnetosphere. This…