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Distant galaxies that existed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang are brighter than expected in JWST images because they were experiencing bursts of intense star formation.

ASSURE 20238th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive SystemsToulouse, FranceSeptember 19, 2023ASSURE 2023 is live UPDATES IntroductionThe 8th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Soft...

The ongoing saga of the New Horizons mission--will it get truncated and its science team disbanded?--may have some resolution. Dr. Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headqu...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the appearance of the larg...

When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) first images of the universe's earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too mature to have formed so soo...

A working group of nations signed up to the Artemis Accords aim to increase transparency and safety of civil lunar exploration missions. The post Artemis Accords signatories seek to boost transparency and safety in lunar...

SpaceX's Starship vehicle towers above sparkling turquoise waters in a stunning image that the company shared via social media over the weekend.

Accounts Payable NSSC Accounts Payable processes all accounts payable invoices, centrally billed accounts, and government charge card transactions for the Agency. Accounts Receivable The NSSC provides consolidated billi...

The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest star-forming regions in the sky, easily visible in a small telescope. But you’ve never seen anything like these new images from JWST. Researchers have created enormous mosaics o...

The Perseverance rover captured images of a dust devil on Mars, which were used to create this video. The post Perseverance Watches a Dust Devil Whirl Past appeared first on Universe Today.

1102 Training Program/The Federal Acquisition Certification for Contracting Officer's Representatives (FAC-COR) The NSSC supports the General Schedule (GS) 1102 Training Program by procuring and scheduling training cour...

The crewmembers of Virgin Galactic's fourth commercial spaceflight are excited to tell the world they're going to the final frontier.

Although humans have flown to space for decades, the missions have primarily been in low-Earth orbit, with just a handful of journeys to the Moon. Future missions with the upcoming Artemis program aim to have humans livi...

On Oct. 14 an annular solar eclipse will be visible across the Americas, you can follow the eclipse in unprecedented detail with NASA's new interactive map "Eclipse Explorer 2023."

Two new infrared mosaics of the Orion Nebula showcase the JWST's abilities while revealing new insights into this familiar star-forming region.

Twenty thousand years ago, a star in the constellation Cygnus went supernova. Like all supernovae, the explosion released a staggering amount of energy. The explosion sent a powerful shockwave into the surrounding space ...

World Space Week 2023 will run from Wednesday, Oct. 4, through Tuesday, Oct. 10, with a theme of "Space and Entrepreneurship."

Estonia's next satellite will fly aboard Europe's Vega VV23 launcher later this week. While largely designed and built by undergraduate students, the shoebox-sized ESTCube-2 has ambitious goals in mind, including surveys...

Project support specialist Shaigh Sisk helps keep things running in Goddard's Exploration and Space Communications Projects division - and in her free time, she keeps the pottery wheel turning, fusing science and art in ...

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio landed in Kazakhstan on Sept. 27, 2023, after spending 371 days in space aboard the International Space Station. Rubio's mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history...

New images of the Orion Nebula from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have been included in ESA's ESASky application, which has a user-friendly interface to visualize and download astronomical data.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is working on plans for a new, large and reusable launch vehicle as the core of its future space transportation plans. The post Japan conducting studies for reusable next-gen rocket...