In the early '90s, on a trip to the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dave Meyer was met with an air of exhilaration and an urgent tone. "You've got to see this." Elsewhere in the building, image… [+12944 chars]
This observation shows a small sand dune field on the floor of Newton Crater, an approximately 300-kilometer wide crater in the Southern Hemisphere of Mars. The image shows both dome and barchan dun… [+725 chars]
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx have found that the Sun’s heat fractures rocks on Bennu in just 10,000 to 100,000 years, revealing that surface regeneration happens a lot quicker on asteroids than … [+2594 chars]
If you close your eyes and imagine a system of planets orbiting a distant star, what do you see? For most people, such thoughts conjure up systems that mirror the Solar System: planets orbiting a ho… [+6838 chars]
Credit: NASA SpaceX has been selected by NASA to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The launch contract is worth approximately $255 million. The nearly $4 billion telescope is scheduled … [+1378 chars]
Share Many do not believe in it, others are not fully aware of it and most of us are not as alert as we should be in the face of one of the phenomena what else should i have worry daily: the climate… [+2853 chars]
Powerful jets of a supermassive black hole change the conditions for star formation in interstellar clouds. It is believed that supermassive black holes lie at the centers of most galaxies in our Uni… [+2884 chars]
Early data from the James Webb Space Telescope is already starting to come in, with exciting finds like views of Jupiter and a potential sighting of the most distant galaxy ever observed. But there’s… [+2745 chars]
Share NASA has a body especially focused on the analysis of asteroids to calculate the probability of impacting the Earth within a period of about 100 years. The current probability of this happenin… [+3301 chars]
ByUniversity of MinnesotaJuly 23, 2022 An international team that includes a University of Minnesota Twin Cities researcher has discovered a new big, meat-eating dinosaur, dubbed Meraxes gigas (illu… [+5697 chars]
ByNASAJuly 24, 2022 Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisor… [+5600 chars]
Researchers say they have discovered a new, unusual radio signal from a distant galaxy. The signal is known as a fast radio burst, or FRB. These signals are pulses of radio waves that scientists say… [+4477 chars]
