NASA will make a major announcement today at 4 p.m. EST regarding the future of commercial resupply launches to the…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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