The Milky Way's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator
Astronomers have conclusively identified a source of the highest energy cosmic ray protons in the Milky Way, solving a long standing puzzle near the star Altair. By combining gamma...
Astronomers have conclusively identified a source of the highest energy cosmic ray protons in the Milky Way, solving a l...
Brown carbon, emitted by wildland fires and tracked over the span of a week in July 2026, worsened air quality in parts ...
Martian dust storms are some of the most fascinating and mysterious planetary surface processes ever observed, as Earth,...
Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band rada...
NASA's Psyche mission used a gravity assist maneuver at Mars to gain velocity and adjust its trajectory to its eventual ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the secrets of early galaxies that pumped the infant c...
For a world to maintain an atmosphere long enough for life to gain a foothold, it seems it needs to be at least as big a...
Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29, to preview the Nancy Gra...
Spiral galaxies, including grand spirals like the Whirlpool galaxy, are plentiful. But it's still a mystery how their sp...
Our ability to track and visualize small rocks in space is still improving. And occasionally we’ll find a space rock t...
The Space Development Agency announced partnerships with two companies worth up to $1.75 billion total, to develop 36 sa...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tues...
As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic ...
NASA Langley’s “Stars, Stripes, and Supernovas – Symphony Under the Stars” event brought employees, fa...
Exile, an interplanetary odyssey and a fateful encounter, this is the journey taken by each Perseid meteor....
NASA is partnering with SpaceX to outfit the Artemis III Orion spacecraft with Starlink laser communications terminals t...
On Earth, it’s hard to track events that reshape its surface, as the surface itself is being reshaped constantly by we...
A low-number periodic comet is stalking our fair planet this summer, and putting on its best show of several generations...
Out of space....
In 1935 the most eminent astronomer alive stood up in a packed room and called Chandrasekhar's discovery "stellar buffoo...
Phase I Saptarshi BandyopadhyayDimming the Sun (DimSun) Using Controllable Dust Cloud to Reduce Solar InsolationNASA Jet...
Paul StankusBrookhaven Science Associates  The scientific goal is to enable a new method for observing gravitationa...
Paul StankusBrookhaven Science Associates The scientific goal of the proposed work will be reconstructing the image...
Pablo Sobron SanchezSETI Institute This proposal explores a new class of reconnaissance spacecraft that map minerals fro...
David SmithDuke University  The increasing population of spacefaring vehicles and satellites motivates increas...
Imagine if Star Wars' Tatooine twin suns went supernova. Scientists may have just found that in our universe....
The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342....
SpaceX launched Northrop Grumman's trailblazing MRV-MEP satellite-servicing mission to Earth orbit today (July 21)....
While getting ready for a camping trip, an amateur astronomer spotted a possible crater. It appears to be a match, pendi...
"We believe that the mechanism that 'turns on' these gigantic radio emissions is linked to the formation process of gala...
An international team of Earth scientists has narrowed down the class of impactor that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene e...
Scientists have painted the most detailed portrait yet of the planetary system orbiting Barnard’s Star. Unfortunately,...
Astronomers have found four new white dwarfs within about 65 light years. Even though the sky has been studied thoroughl...
Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom makes his true debut (sort of) in this cluttered but colorful preview for the December b...
SpaceX is now targeting Thursday (July 23) for Flight 13 of its giant Starship rocket, after the first launch attempt ab...
Despite being separated by billions of miles, Saturn's moon Titan and the dwarf planet Pluto share an unexplained surfac...
While simply finding exoplanets was an important first step in exoplanet science, more ambitious goals await. The ESA wi...
NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that t...
A Sun-like star orbits the supermassive black hole in our Milky Way so closely that it comes within the distance of Nept...
Stranger Things changed the face of streaming, but it also had a significant impact on piquing the younger audience's in...