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Universe
Mar 12, 2021
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
Universe
Mar 11, 2021
NASA is working to return the Hubble Space Telescope to science operations after resolving a problem with a safeguard aboard.
Solar System
Mar 11, 2021
The interplanetary interloper won’t come closer than 1.25 million miles to Earth, but it will present a valuable scientific opportunity for astronomers.
Solar System
Mar 11, 2021
Working with the Navajo Nation, the rover team has named features on Mars with words from the Navajo language.
Earth
Mar 11, 2021
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.
Universe
Mar 11, 2021
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.
Mar 10, 2021
NASA returns to South by Southwest this year for a virtual viewing of the agency’s missions and programs during the online festival.
collage of virtual nasa presentations
Sun
Mar 10, 2021
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
Solar System
Mar 9, 2021
A team of Juno scientists argues that Mars may be the source of the dust behind the zodiacal light.
Solar System
Mar 9, 2021
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.
Sun
Mar 9, 2021
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.
Universe
Mar 9, 2021
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
Mar 9, 2021
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.
Series of 3 photos (left to right) a man next to the spectrum box, middle - a male astronaut inserting a specimen plate into the spectrum box, right - a female astronaut holding the speciman plate