The South Pole-Aitken Basin on the Moon formed from a gigantic impact about 4.3 billion years ago. But that impact may have changed everything about the Moon, and explain why the lunar farside looks … [+4719 chars]
The image dazzles from a computer screen in the corner of the room: six beams of red-orange light bursting from a luminous Milky Way star. But the most entrancing part of the pictureamong the public… [+8831 chars]
Astronomers are one step closer to observing gravitational waves from orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, all thanks to NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - a powerful… [+2202 chars]
A map of the flight paths engineers were considering for the Ingenuity helicopter’s 25th flight. Ultimately “Option C” was chosen. Credit: NASA NASAs Ingenuity Mars helicopter completed its 25th fli… [+3523 chars]
Above Santa Barbara County, the Surface Biology and Geology High-Frequency Time Series, or SHIFT, campaign collects data to understand land and aquatic ecosystems. With a plane crisscrossing the sky… [+4508 chars]
The Sun emitted a significant solar flare on April 16, 2022, peaking at 11:34 p.m. EST. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar fla… [+723 chars]
Small satellite launch specialist company Rocket Lab have announced plans to try to catch one of its launch vehicles on return to Earth, using a helicopter. We should know in the next fortnight if th… [+3472 chars]
A graphene drum can reveal the sound of bacteria. Have you ever wondered if bacteria make distinctive sounds? If we could listen to bacteria, we would be able to know whether they are alive or not. … [+3499 chars]
The dust buildup on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's InSight Mars lander is severe enough to see from orbit. You can see the red Martian regolith covering the lander, which touched down in Novem… [+2706 chars]
Using various space and ground-based observatories, astronomers have inspected flaring activity observed on a blazar known as S5 1803+78. Results of this multi-wavelength study, published April 10 on… [+3222 chars]
A sunspot that "awoke from the dead" last week and erupted with a medium-size solar flare, along with a mass ejection of plasma, also lit up the northern skies in glowing lights. One stunning image o… [+2945 chars]
Above Santa Barbara County, the Surface Biology and Geology High-Frequency Time Series, or SHIFT, campaign collects data to understand land and aquatic ecosystems. With a plane crisscrossing the sky… [+4508 chars]
