A visitor from deep space carries a chemical twist. On August 6, 2025, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its infrared spectrograph toward comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen.
Aug 26, 2025
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have spotted what could be a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest Sun-like star to Earth and part of the closest stellar system to our own.
Aug 7, 2025
NASA scientists using state-of-the-art supercomputers have discovered that massive runoff from Greenland's ice sheet is creating an unexpected marine bonanza, boosting tiny ocean organisms that form the foundation of Arctic food webs.
Aug 7, 2025
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, a low-cost spacecraft designed to map water on the Moon, has officially ended after mission teams were unable to reestablish…
Aug 5, 2025
A century-old mystery surrounding Betelgeuse, the red supergiant glowing in Orion’s shoulder, may finally be solved.
Jul 28, 2025
NASA's upcoming Roman Space Telescope will transform our understanding of the universe by detecting an estimated 100,000 cosmic explosions during a single two-year survey.
Jul 15, 2025
A mysterious object from another star system is blazing through our cosmic neighborhood at record-breaking speed, marking only the third confirmed interstellar visitor ever detected.
Jul 4, 2025
Black holes in the distant universe are blasting out jets with far more energy than scientists expected, according to new research using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Jun 10, 2025
NASA's Psyche spacecraft has successfully switched to its backup fuel line after engineers identified a mechanical valve failure that threatened the mission's journey to a metal-rich asteroid.
May 29, 2025
Astronomers have discovered a celestial object behaving unlike anything previously observed in our galaxy, challenging existing theories about stellar evolution and magnetic field physics.
May 28, 2025
A whirling dust devil crashed NASA's Perseverance rover photo session on Mars, creating an unexpected highlight in the robot's latest selfie.
May 22, 2025
Mysterious circular features on Venus may be sites of ongoing geological activity similar to what shaped early Earth, according to new research published in Science Advances.
May 16, 2025
NASA scientists have discovered a substantial temperature difference between the Moon's nearside and farside hemispheres, potentially solving one of lunar science's most enduring mysteries.
May 15, 2025
In a race against time and technical challenges, NASA engineers have successfully revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been…
May 15, 2025
