Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense
On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into…
NASA’s Apollo Samples, LRO Help Scientists Forecast Moonquakes
Editor’s Note: The headline of this article was updated on August 14 to to clarify the nature of…
Webb Narrows Atmospheric Possibilities for Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d
The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is…
NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star…
NASA Installs Key ‘Sunblock’ Shield on Roman Space Telescope
Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the…
NASA, JAXA XRISM Satellite X-rays Milky Way’s Sulfur
An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using…
NASA to Launch SNIFS, Sun’s Next Trailblazing Spectator
July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to…
NASA’s TRACERS Studies Magnetic Reconnection
High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful…
One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions
Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun
KEY POINTS NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken the closest ever images to the Sun, captured just 3.8…