New laboratory experiments reveal that salt-enriched water could flow long enough on airless worlds to carve the distinctive channels observed on the giant asteroid Vesta, challenging previous assumptions about liquid behavior in space.
Dec 23, 2024
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exceptionally fast-moving component within a powerful jet emanating from the supermassive black hole in Centaurus A, our nearest giant galaxy.
Dec 11, 2024
Flight 72 was planned as a brief vertical hop to assess Ingenuity’s flight systems and photograph the area.
Dec 11, 2024
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched it away from Earth’s gravity, and now the spacecraft is zooming along at 22 miles per second (35 kilometers per second) relative to the Sun.
Nov 25, 2024
What happens when you point the world's most powerful space telescope at a galaxy that resembles a Mexican hat?
Nov 25, 2024
In a finding that deepens one of biology's most persistent mysteries, NASA-funded scientists have discovered that RNA - a molecule central to life's origins - shows no inherent preference for creating left-handed or right-handed protein building blocks.
Nov 22, 2024
The largest cognitive performance study of professional astronauts to date reveals that while some mental processes slow down during six-month stays on the…
Nov 20, 2024
Our galaxy's close neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has survived a dramatic close encounter with the Milky Way that stripped away most of its surrounding gas halo.
Nov 15, 2024
Summary: Scientists analyzing decades-old data from NASA's Voyager 2 mission have discovered that the spacecraft observed Uranus's magnetic field in an unusual state that occurs less than 5% of the time.
Nov 13, 2024
Summary: Using NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, astronomers have conducted an unprecedented study of the debris disk surrounding the star Vega.
Nov 1, 2024
NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission has concluded with a successful splashdown off Florida's coast, marking the end of a seven-month expedition that advanced critical medical research and manufacturing capabilities aboard the International Space Station.
Oct 25, 2024
NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources.
Oct 23, 2024
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different viewpoints.
Oct 10, 2024
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration has achieved a new milestone by sending a laser signal to the Psyche spacecraft nearly 290 million miles away, equivalent to the maximum distance between Earth and Mars.
Oct 5, 2024
