‘Disk Detective’ Needs Your Help Finding Disks Where Planets Form

Through a project called Disk Detective, you can scientists in figuring out the mysteries of planet…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Comprehensive Systems Test

Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been assembled into its final form, testing teams…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Spies Newly-Discovered Comet NEOWISE

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a…

Two Bizarre Brown Dwarfs Found With Citizen Scientists’ Help

With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered two highly unusual brown dwarfs, balls of…

Hubble Sees Sculpted Galaxy

Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, this image shows NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy. This…

Conditions Ripe for Active Amazon Fire, Atlantic Hurricane Seasons

Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North AtlanticOcean so far in 2020 have…

Ethan Burbridge, In Control of the Thermostat, On Spacecraft

Ethan Burbridge, a thermal engineer, controls the thermostat on spacecraft for NASA. Click here…

Hubble Spots Feathered Spiral

NGC 2275 is classified as a flocculent (or fluffy-looking) spiral galaxy, located 67 million light-years away…

NASA Awards NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS)

On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has awarded the Space Weather…

Radar Points to Moon Being More Metallic Than Researchers Thought

The Moon’s subsurface might be richer in metals, like iron and titanium, than researchers thought. …