X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun’s Earliest Days
By detecting an X-ray flare from a very young star using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have reset the timeline…
Japan’s HTV-9 Cargo Craft Helps Supply the Space Station
Japan’s resupply ship, the H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 (HTV-9), is pictured attached to the International Space Station‘s Harmony module. Stowed inside…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Produces Nightingale Mosaic
This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Teams Up With Observatories Around Solar System for 4th Solar Encounter
At the heart of understanding our space environment is the knowledge that conditions throughout space — from the Sun to…
NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star
For more than a decade, astronomers have searched for planets orbiting AU Microscopii, a nearby star still surrounded by a…
Hubble Makes a Bright Find
Seen here in incredible detail, thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the starburst galaxy formally known as PLCK…
An Astronaut’s View of Work
On June 26, 2020, spacewalkers Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy completed the first of two scheduled spacewalks to replace batteries…
Deep Space 1 Spacecraft at 2.3 Million Miles from Earth
June 30 is Asteroid Day. Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation…
NASA, Partner Space Agencies Amass Global View of COVID-19 Impacts
In response to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) have…
Mapping the Early Universe with NASA’s Webb Telescope
Astronomers and engineers have designed telescopes, in part, to be “time travelers.” The farther away an object is, the longer…
NASA Spacecraft Helps Identify Solar Radiation Patterns That Expose the Moon
Which way the wind blows in space has new importance for astronaut safety at the Moon. Using data from several…
NASA Developing a Plan to Fly Personnel on Suborbital Spacecraft
For the first time in the agency’s history, NASA has initiated a new effort to enable NASA personnel to fly…
Hubble Sees Cosmic Flapping Bat Shadow
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking…
NASA Scientist Simulates Sunsets on Other Worlds
Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you can see in the animation above,…
NASA Observes Large Saharan Dust Plume Over Atlantic Ocean
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite observed a huge Saharan dust plume streaming over the North Atlantic Ocean, beginning on June 13.…