NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as prepared for Wednesday’s Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal…
SETI Scientists Scan TRAPPIST-1 for Technosignatures
If you are going to look for intelligent life beyond Earth, there are few better candidates…
Work is underway on NASA’s next-generation asteroid hunter
This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s NEO Surveyor in deep space. The black-paneled angular structure in the…
Scientists have found evidence of past extreme solar storms—they could be disastrous for technology-based society
Credit: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory, Atmospheric Imaging Assembly In September 1859, the same year that Darwin…
NASA, US Department of Education to Launch STEM Project in Washington
Media are invited to the kickoff event of a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department…
A Star Was Kicked Out of a Globular Cluster by an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Astronomers have solid evidence for the existence of stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes. However,…
Magnifying deep space through the ‘Carousel Lens’—rare alignment offers unique opportunity to study cosmology
The Carousel Lens, as seen through the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: William Sheu/UCLA In a rare…
Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology
Illustration of the giant black hole jets known as Porphyrion Caltech A pair of jets blasting…
Seismology research helps understand exoplanet migration
Ph.D. student Jared Bryan was able to use his knowledge of Earth-based seismology to solve an…
Hera asteroid mission launch kit
If an incoming asteroid were to threaten Earth, what could people do about it? On 26…