Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley (STScI) In a landmark study, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the ...
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Student research team develops hybrid rocket engine
Credit: Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois ...
NASA missions explore a ‘TIE Fighter’ active galaxy
Credit: NRAO Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has ...
Ground segment testing a success for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Northrop Grumman Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on demonstrating that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...
Hubble snaps close-up of celebrity comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Pagan (STScI), and Q. Zhang (Caltech) NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on ...
Research team develops the first physics-based method for predicting large solar flares
Credit: Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University Solar flares emit sudden, strong bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun's ...
Greenland ice sheet shows losses in 2019
AWI researchers confirm record ice losses in Greenland in 2019 based on data from the GFZ/NASA satellite mission GRACE Follow-OnCredit: ...
Deep learning will help future Mars rovers go farther, faster, and do more science
NASA JPL team uses TACC's Maverick2 system to develop software, trains modelsCredit: NASA's Mars rovers have been one of the ...
Microbes living on air a global phenomenon
Credit: Photo: Belinda Ferrari In their first follow-up to a high-profile 2017 study which showed microbes in Antarctica have a ...
Under pressure, nontoxic salt-based propellant performs well
Credit: Aerospace Engineering, Grainger Engineering In smaller spacecraft such as CubeSat satellites, a salt-based monopropellant is showing promise. It can ...
Strange gamma-ray heartbeat puzzles scientists
Cosmic gas cloud blinks in sync with circling black holeCredit: Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab Scientists have detected a mysterious ...
NASA satellite’s lone view of Betelgeuse reveals more strange behavior
Credit: NASA/STEREO/HI For several weeks in summer 2020, NASA's Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, had the solar system's ...
Hubble finds that Betelgeuse’s mysterious dimming is due to a traumatic outburst
Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley (STScI) Observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of ...
NASA’s planet Hunter completes its primary mission
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center On July 4, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging ...
A new look at Mars’ eerie, ultraviolet nighttime glow
Credit: LASP Every night on Mars, when the sun sets and temperatures fall to minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit and below, ...
NASA’s Maven observes martian night sky pulsing in ultraviolet light
Credit: Credits: NASA/MAVEN/Goddard Space Flight Center/CU/LASP Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images ...
NASA satellites capture Isaias’ nighttime track into Canada
Credit: Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Tropical Storm Isaias has transitioned into a post-tropical ...
Adranos secures $1.1 million in army contracts for hypersonic research
Credit: Chris Stoker/Adranos WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Adranos Inc., a Purdue University-affiliated company that has developed a high-performance solid rocket ...
NASA sun data helps new model predict big solar flares
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new ...
Surprising number of exoplanets could host life
New insight to inform future NASA missionsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Our solar system has one habitable planet -- Earth. A new study ...
