NASA Webb, Hubble Scientist Marcia Rieke Awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize

Marcia Rieke, a scientist who worked on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope,…

Revived technology used to count individual photons from distant galaxies

The SOAR Telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile. Credit: NOIRLab Using an instrument on the 4.1-meter…

On the GOES – NASA

On June 14, 2024, NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) last Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-U,…

NASA Cancels Spacewalk Over Spacesuit Water Leak

A spacewalk by two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station ended almost as soon as…

Advanced Optics Could Help Us Find Earth 2.0

NASA has long been interested in building bigger and better space telescopes. Its Institute for Advanced…

New research challenges black holes as dark matter explanation

Artist’s impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the…

On the GOES – NASA

Crews transport NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-U) from the Astrotech…

Webb Space Telescope captures star clusters in Cosmic Gems arc

The Cosmic Gems arc as observed by the JWST. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley…

Mercury may have a layer of diamond beneath its grey surface

Does Mercury have a sparkling secret? NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington A…

Satellites are Going to Track Garbage Drifting Across the Oceans

We are all too aware of the pollution on planet Earth. There are increased amounts of…