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Hubble Views Galaxy’s Dazzling Display
NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (the Air…
NASA’s MAVEN Maps Winds in the Martian Upper Atmosphere that Mirror the Terrain Below and Gives Clues to Martian Climate
Researchers have created the first map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of a planet…
Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Swings Past Sun
Comet 2I/Borisov is a mysterious visitor from the depths of space — the first identified comet…
NASA’s NICER Delivers Best-ever Pulsar Measurements, 1st Surface Map
Astrophysicists are redrawing the textbook image of pulsars (the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars) thanks…
'The Invisible Network' Podcast – Episode 12: Reconnaissance
Without communications there is no exploration: To reveal the unknown, a spacecraft must be able to…
Revealing the Physics of the Sun with Parker Solar Probe
Nearly a year and a half into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of…
NASA’s Operation IceBridge Completes Eleven Years of Polar Surveys
For ten years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA’s OperationIceBridge flew above the Arctic…
Postcards from the Edge of Space: Scientists Present New Ionosphere Images and Science
In a Dec. 10 press event at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in…
OSIRIS-REx Engineers Pull Off a Daring Rescue of a Monumental Asteroid Mission
On Oct. 11, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely…