NASA will make a major announcement today at 4 p.m. EST regarding the future of commercial resupply launches to the … More
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NASA, Texas Instruments Launch mISSion imaginaTIon
Today’s students are the engineers and scientists of the future, so NASA and Texas Instruments (TI) are teaming up and … More
Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Cosmic dust clouds ripple across this infrared portrait of our Milky Way’s satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. In fact, … More
A Milky Way twin swept by an ultra-fast X-ray wind
ESA’s XMM-Newton has found a wind of high-speed gas streaming from the centre of a bright spiral galaxy like our … More
How NASA’s Flying Observatory Revealed Secrets About Pluto
Dual observations of Pluto from an observatory strapped to a high-flying airplane and a probe near the dwarf planet’s surface … More
NASA Hired Its First Female Astronauts 38 Years Ago
Thirty-eight years ago this week, NASA selected its first official female astronaut candidates — although these were not the first … More
This Is an Ancient Meandering River … On Mars
There are few more potent reminders that Mars used to be a wet world than seeing ancient, dried up river … More
NASA Jupiter Probe Sets Distance Record for Solar-Powered Spacecraft
On Wednesday (Jan. 13), NASA’s Juno spacecraft zoomed past the previous record of 492 million miles (792 million kilometers) from … More
Cosmic Perspective – The Search For Life On Other Worlds
Andy Poniros hosts. NASA JPL & Stanford University: "How to Explore the Surface of a Comet or Asteroid" 2:04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmoqjNQAu8 … More
Ancient gas cloud relic of first stars?
Astronomers see this cloud just 1.8 billion years after the Big Bang. It has a tiny percentage of heavy elements, … More