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The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral, which…
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew members is orbiting Earth and on its way to the International Space Station after launching from Kennedy Space Center at 2:31 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. Dragon is carrying Ax-4…
Students attending the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions. At 12:40 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 1, NASA astronauts…
NASA astronaut Bob Hines took this picture of the waning crescent moon on May 8, 2022, as the International Space Station flew into an orbital sunrise 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of the United States.…
Technicians installed two instruments on NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft on at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The work took multiple days and finished on Monday, June 23. Scheduled…
NASA satellite data and citizen science observations combine for new findings on bird populations.
Researchers have developed a new way to measure near-shore bathymetry using satellite observations alone. Soon after NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite launched into orbit in 2018 on a mission to measure the heights of Earth’s ice, forests, and land cover, scientists examined…
Editor’s note: This interview was conducted in October 2023. As the International Space Station approaches 25 years of continuous human presence on Nov. 2, 2025, it is a meaningful moment to recognize those who have been there since the beginning—sharing…
In addition to drilling rock core samples, the science team has been grinding its way into rocks to make sense of the scientific evidence hiding just below the surface. On June 3, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover ground down a portion…
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have captured compelling evidence of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn orbiting the young nearby star TWA 7. If confirmed, this would represent Webb’s first direct image discovery of a planet,…
