These four galaxies are part of a large survey of more than 100 galaxies conducted by Chandra that looked for evidence of growing black holes. A new study uncovered evidence that stellar-mass black h… [+5433 chars]
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows two galaxies which are in the process of merging together, in the system VV-689. This system is known as the Angel Wing due to the wing-like sh… [+2297 chars]
Scientists overseeing the largest particle accelerator on Earth switched it on for the first time in three years this weekend to solve some of the biggest mysteries in physics. The Large Hadron Col… [+4237 chars]
With similar geographical conditions to Earth, and just a seven-month journey away, Mars has long been an important target for understanding the evolution of Earth and other planets in the solar syst… [+264 chars]
The first all-private astronaut team ever to fly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) departed the orbiting outpost today to begin a descent back to Earth, capping a two-week science mission … [+3529 chars]
Giant Jupiter and the shadow of its biggest moon, Ganymede, dominate the view in this latest image from the system based on a NASA spacecraft's data. NASA's Juno mission whizzed close by the radiati… [+1926 chars]
A decade after it was shut down, results analyzed from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) have measured the mass of the W-Boson, an elementary particle, to be slightly heavier than that predicte… [+6934 chars]
Figure 1. Citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos created this enhanced-color image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 44,000 … [+2849 chars]
The official crew portrait of the SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts representing NASAs Commercial Crew Program. From left are, Pilot Robert Hines, Mission Specialists Samantha Cristoforetti and Jessica Watkin… [+2996 chars]
Typically, when we talk about NASA, we envision a journey beyond the stars -- but NASA has new projects just for planet Earth. The new projects collected data about our home planet, which is reporte… [+329 chars]
The electromagnetic spectrum is a range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. From long to short wavelength, the EM spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultravio… [+4993 chars]
No animals have experienced a more dramatic makeover in the past few decades than the nonavian dinosaurs. Animals we used to think had nothing but drab gray and brown scales are now believed to have … [+5751 chars]
