New machine learning tool diagnoses electron beams in an efficient, non-invasive way

Beams of accelerated electrons power electron microscopes, X-ray lasers, medical accelerators and other devices. To optimize…

Searching the ocean for one of the world's rarest whales

Crowded into a tiny plane, 1,000 feet above the water off Georgia, the surveyors look down…

Chandra X-ray data sonification: Stellar, galactic, and black hole

This latest installment from our data sonification series features three diverse cosmic scenes. In each, astronomical…

National Space Club 2021 Keynote Scholarship Winner Announcement

National Space Club 2021 Keynote Scholarship Winner Announcement Click here for original story, National…

NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) NNH21ZHA001N: NASA Fellowship Activity 2021.

NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) NNH21ZHA001N: NASA Fellowship Activity 2021. Click here for…

The Most Intimate Portrait Yet of a Black Hole

Two years of analyzing the polarized light from a galaxy’s giant black hole has given scientists…

Aerosol formation in clouds

Researchers have studied for the first time how chemical reactions in clouds can influence the global…

Weird earthquake reveals hidden mechanism

The wrong type of earthquake in an area where there should not have been an earthquake…

Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself

Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis,…

Bronze Age mining sites received deliveries of pre-processed foods

Bronze Age mining sites relied on outside sources to deliver pre-processed food to sustain the community,…