Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral
Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious Radio Pulsing White Dwarf
A team of astronomers using the Netherlands’ powerful LOFAR radio telescope has found a white dwarf that’s defying everything we thought we knew about them. Located over 3,500 light-years away,…
Zero-Boil Fuel Storage Undergoes System Testing
From an engineering perspective, space is surprisingly hot. Or, more specifically, solar energy can make systems that need to be kept at a very cold temperature heat up much more…
NASA’s Junocam Heals Its Radiation Damage
The JunoCam on NASA’s Juno spacecraft has given us fantastic images of Jupiter and its moons, especially volcanic Io. But the instrument is suffering after years of exposure to Jupiter’s…
NASA’s Artemis Albatross
While all the technology of the Apollo program still exists in the form of blueprints and designs, all the human expertise that went into crafting those rockets and spaceships is…
Astronomers Find Five Rocky Planets Around a Small Red Dwarf, Including a Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) detected three rocky planets around the M-dwarf L 98-59 in 2019. While two are expected to be hot, rocky worlds, the third could be…
Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how
Thanks to auroras and other space weather, humans have adapted techniques to overcome these issues.
NASA Welcomes Senegal as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
From left to right, Ambassador of Senegal to the United States Abdoul Wahab Haidara, Director General of the Senegalese space agency (ASES) Maram Kairé, NASA Chief of Staff Brian Hughes,…
NASA Sets Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 Launch, Docking
The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station pictured during a training session at SpaceX facilities in Florida. Credit: SpaceX NASA will provide coverage of the…
Spain offers 400 million euros to revive Thirty Meter Telescope as Trump suggests cancelling project
The Spanish government may have a way to save the Thirty Meter Telescope.