With the Webb Space Telescope on the brink of releasing its first full-color images and data, Jet Propulsion Laboratory astronomer Charles Beichman and his team are about to take a chance on a long… [+6499 chars]
ByLonnie Shekhtman, NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterJuly 8, 2022 NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaving the surface of asteroid Bennu after collecting a sample. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Cen… [+8965 chars]
Look up at the waxing gibbous with a pair of binoculars or a small telescope on Saturday (July 9) and enjoy the surface light effect known as the "Golden Handle". This interesting lunar feature appe… [+2288 chars]
A newly discovered star is so close to our galaxy's central supermassive black hole that it completes an orbit in just four years. That's the shortest orbit yet for one of the stars looping around t… [+3495 chars]
Up to ~40 supermassive black holes have been observed, which are believed to power the optically bright quasars; however, how these quasars formes less than a billion years after the Big Bang is stil… [+3187 chars]
To address energy costs rising and the rapidly emerging effects of burning fossil fuels on the global climate, new tools are being sought to enable a switch from fossil-to renewable carbon (biomass) … [+2123 chars]
Both the CheMin and SAM instruments have dined on the Avanavero drill samples and have decided their appetites are sated. CheMin has completed X-ray diffraction mineralogical analysis of the Avanaver… [+2803 chars]
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