Astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri variable, a rare type of stellar binary where two stars – one approaching the end of its life – orbit within a sprawling disk of dust. Their 130-year dataset spans the widest range of light yet collected for one of these systems, from... Read More
NASA is working to return the Hubble Space Telescope to science operations after resolving a problem with a safeguard aboard.
The interplanetary interloper won’t come closer than 1.25 million miles to Earth, but it will present a valuable scientific opportunity for astronomers.
Working with the Navajo Nation, the rover team has named features on Mars with words from the Navajo language.
Data collected by Liberian scientists and the Conservation International team, as well as data from NASA satellites, will be used by the Liberian government and the global non-profit Conservation International to factor the country’s natural resources and ecosystems into its economic planning.
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star that may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity.
NASA returns to South by Southwest this year for a virtual viewing of the agency’s missions and programs during the online festival.
Solar Energetic Particles are the Sun's speediest escapees, traversing the 93 million miles to Earth in under an hour. Scientists still don't know what causes them or where they come from on the Sun. For the first time, scientists have traced a Solar Energetic Particle burst back to its... Read More
A team of Juno scientists argues that Mars may be the source of the dust behind the zodiacal light.
Since the return of the first Apollo lunar samples, or Moon rocks, in 1969, NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has been responsible for curating all NASA-held materials from another celestial body.
Since they were discovered in the first data returned from NASA's Parker Solar Probe, switchbacks have sparked a flurry of studies and scientific debate as researchers have tried to explain how the magnetic pulses form.
Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles coming from a supermassive black hole in the early universe, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Space Experiments, Space Biology, Physical Sciences
NASA seeks to understand the impact of the spaceflight environment on organisms in preparation for long-duration missions. Spectrum was developed to undertake these types of studies using model organisms on ISS.
