Researchers develop dustbuster for the moon A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is pioneering a new solution…
NASA’s Webb solar array reconnects to the telescope One kilowatt is about what it takes to heat up some leftovers…
Space debris observed for the first time during the day On the afternoon of February 10, 2009, the operational communications…
First-ever mission to the Trojan asteroids passes NASA milestone NASA has approved the final development stage of the Southwest Research…
Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy In a landmark study, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the…
Study rules out dark matter destruction as origin of extra radiation in galaxy center The detection more than a decade…
Global magnetic field of the solar corona measured for the first time An international team led by Professor Tian Hui…
Ground segment testing a success for James Webb Space Telescope Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on…
Follow NASA’s Perseverance rover in real time on its way to Mars The last time we saw NASA’s Mars 2020…
A 70 degree shift on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was the last event to fracture its surface Europa’s outer icy…
Hubble snaps close-up of comet NEOWISE The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky’s…
Upcoming space mission to test drag sail pulling rocket back to Earth A rocket is going up into space with…
Kepler’s supernova remnant: Debris from stellar explosion not slowed after 400 years Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to…
Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows Imagine reading by the light of an exploded star,…
NASA researchers track slowly splitting ‘dent’ in Earth’s magnetic field A small but evolving dent in Earth’s magnetic field can…
Ariane rocket puts telecom satellites into orbit A rocket that blasted off from French Guiana successfully placed two communications satellites…
Simulations show lander exhaust could cloud studies of lunar ices A new study led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins…
Aurora mysteries unlocked with NASA’s THEMIS mission A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a…
Hubble finds that Betelgeuse’s mysterious dimming is due to a traumatic outburst Recent observations of Betelgeuse have revealed that the…
ALMA sees most distant Milky Way look-alike Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern…
Broken cable damages giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico A broken cable caused severe damage at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory,…
Moonquakes and marsquakes: How we peer inside other worlds Eavesdropping on the shudders and groans echoing deep inside alien worlds…
ESA’s ‘first’ satellite: COS-B This weekend sees the 45th anniversary of the launch of Cos-B, the first satellite to be…
Cluster’s 20 years of studying Earth’s magnetosphere Despite a nominal lifetime of two years, ESA’s Cluster is now entering its…
NASA sounding rocket finds helium structures in sun’s atmosphere Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after…
OSIRIS-REx is one rehearsal away from touching asteroid Bennu NASA’s first asteroid sampling spacecraft is making final preparations to grab…
Rice researchers use InSight for deep Mars measurements Using data from NASA’s InSight Lander on Mars, Rice University seismologists have…
Surprisingly dense exoplanet challenges planet formation theories New detailed observations with NSF’s NOIRLab facilities reveal a young exoplanet, orbiting a…
Semiconductor manufacturing techniques employed for new gamma-ray detector NASA astrophysicists and engineers are adapting detectors used by earthbound supercolliders and…
SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in…
Hurricane might delay SpaceX-NASA return trip from ISS The first US astronauts to reach the International Space Station on an…
