A new study amplifies the Hubble tension, a discrepancy in cosmic expansion rate measurements, by providing the most accurate calibration of Cepheid stars for distance…
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Artistic composition of a “soup” of prebiotic molecules around a protoplanetary disc. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC) A study led by the researcher Susana Iglesias…
Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term, sustainable lunar…
An artist’s conceptual rendering of interactions between an exoplanet and its star. Plasma emitted from the star is deflected by the exoplanet’s magnetic field. That…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. Located in the Camelopardalis constellation, the UGC 2890 galaxy is approximately 30 million light-years away from…
The Lyrids Meteor Shower is an annual celestial event that occurs when Earth passes through the debris trail left behind by the Comet C/1861 G1…
Jezero Crater Chronicles: NASA’s Perseverance Scores Prized Mars Sample in Latest Science Expedition
In this illustration, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics…
Artist’s impression of the Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon and a major target in NASA’s quest to assess habitability and…
Intense solar storms can cause electrical blackouts. Like a tornado siren for life-threatening storms in America’s heartland, a new computer model that combines artificial intelligence…
A veteran astronomer has discovered that Saturn’s vast ring system is heating the planet’s upper atmosphere, a phenomenon never before observed in our solar system.…
Slim Boom. Credit: Phil Drury, University of Sheffield Astronomers have observed an explosion 180 million light-years away that challenges our current understanding of cosmic explosions,…
Artemis II is the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface. Credit:…
Maat Mons is displayed in this computer-generated, three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus. The viewpoint is located 634 kilometers (393 miles) north of Maat…
The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its…
Astronomers led by Durham University have discovered one of the largest black holes ever found, with a mass over 30 billion times that of the…
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that the atmosphere of exoplanet HD149026b is super-abundant in the heavier elements carbon and oxygen –…
NASA successfully conducted a 10-minute hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine on March 21, surpassing the required power levels and duration for SLS missions,…
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Astronomers think most occur when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear…
This image taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a spiral galaxy (bottom left) in front of a large galaxy cluster. New research leveraged an…
This illustration shows what the hot rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b could look like based on this work. TRAPPIST-1 b, the innermost of seven known planets…