Lucy will explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids – thought to be “fossils of planet formation.” Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, filled […]
According to a survey carried out last year by the American Institute of Architects, the pandemic year led to multiple home design trends, from the […]
A portion of the SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle is pictured at lower left as the space station orbited above northern France. Credit: NASA Rodent research, […]
This illustration shows NASA’s InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The lander cleared enough dust from one solar panel […]
Artist impression of the MMX spacecraft descending to the surface of Phobos (based on the spacecraft design in FY2019). Credit: JAXA Dr. Ryuki Hyodo shares […]
A detailed look at the gamma-ray sky. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration Star-forming galaxies are responsible for creating gamma-rays that until now had not been associated […]
Hubble Space Telescope image of a sparkling starfield that contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6). Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. […]
[embedded content] Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha”. The camera is setup to take pictures […]
SpaceX sent four private citizens into space, marking the first-ever crewed mission to space without the presence of professional astronauts. The mission, dubbed Inspiration4, is […]
If physicists had a “Most Wanted” list, dark matter particles would be right at the top. Dark matter is an invisible material that lurks throughout […]
Four people – none of them trained astronauts – are scheduled to launch into orbit aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule on September 15, 2021. Credit: […]
Jupiter is shown in visible light for context underneath an artistic impression of the Jovian upper atmosphere’s infrared glow. The brightness of this upper atmosphere […]
NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope, humanity’s next big space-bound eye on the universe, will launch on December 18th. It’s the latest in […]
NASA has announced that Perseverance succeeded in its second try after previously failing to acquire a rock sample. In addition, NASA has confirmed that a […]
Astronomers have used gravitational lensing to obtain an unprecedented look at a black hole system in the early Universe. An artist’s illustration shows how the […]
Artist’s concept of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and Northrop Grumman The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully completed its final tests and […]
Experts think humans should be able to safely travel to and from Mars, but harmful solar radiation poses some technological challenges. Image credit: Nicolas Lobos […]
array: A broad and organized group of objects. Sometimes they are instruments placed in a systematic fashion to collect information in a coordinated way. Other […]
Herbig–Haro object named HH111, captured by Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini This striking image features a relatively […]
A still image from the simulation showing a large region containing tens of galaxies (6 million light-years across). Credit: Anglés-Alcázar et al. 2021, ApJ, 917, […]
