Faster to Science: A Letter to the Science Community
Dear NASA Science Community, NASA Science wants to deliver science faster, so we’re changing how we compete and select missions. On Monday, October 26, we will host a virtual NASA…
How Flare Ribbons Reveal Hidden Solar Explosions on the Sun
Solar flaring is complex behaviour triggered by reconnection, when magnetic field lines break and then snap back to the Sun’s surface. The flaring is complex behaviour, and its details are…
On this day in space! Oct. 21, 2008: India launches its 1st mission to the moon with Chandrayaan-1
On Oct. 21, 2008, the Indian Space Research Organization launched its first mission to the moon. The mission was named Chandrayaan-1, and it consisted of both an orbiter and an…
NASA Conducts RS-25 Engine Test in Support of Future Artemis Missions
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA conducts a hot fire of RS-25 engine No. 10001 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis…
Webb Captures Stars in the Early Stages of Life in a Nearby Stellar Nursery
This Webb infrared image, released on October 6th, 2026, shows the star-forming region NGC 7129, about 3,300 light-years from Earth. The central star, LkHα 234, is a young star of…
NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Clockwise from top: Caltech graduate students and friends carry out their first rocket firing on Halloween, 1936, in a…
Sci-fi legend Alan Dean Foster on his new futuristic adventure ‘Lost On Paradise’: ‘It’s paradise until you get there, and then maybe you mess it up’ (interview)
Few names in the science fiction literary world carry as much weight and respect as author Alan Dean Foster. His award-winning 55-year career as a grandmaster of the genre continues…
There Should Be Black Holes in our Neighbourhood. Can We Find Them?
Stellar-mass black holes should be in our neighbourhood within about 50 light years of the Solar System. But they’re likely isolated, without much to feed on, making them difficult to…
A Stubborn Question Answered: New Research Reveals How the Milky Way’s Disk Formed
Figuring out how the Milky Way’s thin and thick disks formed is a tough question in astronomy. It relies on determining individual stellar ages accurately. Gaia was pretty good at…
Neutrinos May Be The Key To Why We Are Surrounded By Matter
In the early Universe, neutrinos interacted strongly with other matter before some of them “decoupled.” The heaviest of these decoupled neutrinos may be the solution to the matter-antimatter cosmic mystery.