Artist impression of the pulsar-planet system PSR B1257+12 detected in 1992. The pulsar and three radiation-doused planets are all that remains of a dead star…
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill Jovian Vortex Hunter, a new NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
Position in the sky of the different candidates of the Fermi catalog. The background map shows the minimum brightness of an anti-star for it to…
Australia’s first major contribution to dark matter detection, the ORGAN Experiment, is now online and searching for dark matter, bringing us a step closer to…
Blue sky and white clouds serve as a backdrop for the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher at…
Ready to showcase the Webb space telescope’s first full-color images … Back in touch with a spacecraft on an important mission to the Moon ….…
TEMPO operations architecture. Credit: NASA Crews successfully completed the first fully integrated powered testing of the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument on Intelsat…
Perseverance sizes up Betty’s Rock on Sol 477 (June 23, 2022): This interesting layered rock likely originated from an outcrop above, but its rough surface…
Schematic representation of the view into cosmic history provided by the bright light of distant quasars. Observing with a telescope (bottom left) allows us to…
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaving the surface of asteroid Bennu after collecting a sample. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab/SVS Scientists have learned something astonishing…
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended…
New research finds that molecular clouds are loaded with key precursors for life on Earth. This image is of the “Pigtail” Molecular Cloud. Credit: Keio…
The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm as it is positioned away from the International Space Station. The…
OSIRIS-REx at Sample Site Nightingale. Asteroid Bennu’s surface consists of low-cohesion rubble according to data gathered during the sampling of the asteroid by the OSIRIS-REx…
This Fine Guidance Sensor test image was acquired in parallel with NIRCam imaging of the star HD147980 over a period of eight days at the…
Mars Perseverance Sol 472 – Left Mastcam-Z Camera: NASA’s Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras…
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended…
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter is positioned away from the International Space Station in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm prior to its release…
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended…