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NASA's Science Mission Directorate seeks knowledge and answers to profound questions that impact all people. Through competitions, challenges, crowdsourcing, and citizen science activities, NASA collaborates with the pub...

I know for a fact it's one of the most annoying things that can happen.  I've done it lots; whether that be out at night with telescope or a bit of DIY but for sure it has to rate as one of the most frustrating things t...

During its last flyby of Ganymede, the Juno probe reported finding traces of mineral salts and organic molecules on its surface. The post Juno Spots Salts and Organic Molecules on Ganymede’s Surface appeared first on U...

An old refractor telescope sees a second life under the night skies, thanks to the efforts of a dedicated amateur observer. The post Amateur Astronomer Restores a Classic Historic Refractor appeared first on Universe Tod...

A runaway dead star predicted to have a close encounter with our solar system in tens of thousands of years will actually miss our neck of the cosmic woods.

A team lead by Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, recently proposed a promising plan to detect gravitational waves (GWs) by putting seismometers on the moon's surface. Their research is published in the ...

An interview with "Beacon 23" showrunner Glen Mazzara on MGM+'s new sci-fi thriller set on a remote cosmic lighthouse for intergalactic travelers.

Asteroid Dinkinesh is not only a binary, but its satellite is itself a "contact binary" consisting of two space rocks touching one another.

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a new view of a hazy spiral galaxy that once hosted a supernova explosion.

Saturn’s ocean moon, Enceladus, is attracting increasing attention in the search for life in our Solar System. Most of what we know about Enceladus and its ice-covered ocean comes from the Cassini mission. Cassini ende...

By Vivian White, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Are you an astronomy enthusiast or undergraduate student with a passion for sharing space science? We are excited to share with you a wonderful opportunity to become a...

The future of flight looks very exciting, and the public is helping NASA see it more clearly. For more than a century, NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, have been the global leade...

Creativity and curiosity are strongly tied to NASA's missions and vision. Many of the agency's public opportunities foster these traits by engaging students and educators. Participants of all ages and levels, from kinder...

Landing safely on an asteroid is no mean feat. Despite several recent successes, there have also been notable failures – most famously, the Philae lander to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Admittedly, that was an attempt to...

NASA's Lucy Spacecraft took images of asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that the asteroid has the first-ever contact binary pair orbiting the asteroid.

How did supermassive black holes form? JWST and Chandra may have found the answer.

NASA is leading humanity's return to the Moon through Artemis. Artemis will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and explore more of the lunar surface than ever before, using innovating technologies...

NASA launches its new streaming service, an on-demand, ad-free platform lifting off on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV beginning Nov. 8.

In September 2023, NASA aircraft began supporting an effort to find and map critical mineral deposits in Western regions of the U.S. Identifying these minerals — often used in everyday products like laptops and cell ph...

This view of spiral galaxy IC 342 is one of five first science images released by the Euclid mission on Nov. 7, 2023. The ESA-led (European Space Agency) Euclid observatory, which will investigate the mysteries of dark m...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed gassy baby galaxies in the early universe triggering explosive bouts of star formation, flooding the universe with light.

Since it became operational almost two years ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced countless breathtaking images of the universe and enabled fresh insights into how it evolved.