On April 1, 1960, NASA’s first operational weather satellite, TIROS-1, launched from Cape Canaveral. This multimedia…
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Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanets
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will find thousands of planets outside our solar system,…
Hubble Hooks a One-Arm Galaxy
Located about 21 million light-years from our galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, NGC 4618 has…
Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret
Three decades after Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus, scientists took another look at the data. This…
NASA Awards Prize Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2020
NASA has selected 24 new Fellows for its prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP). The program…
New 3D View of Methane Tracks Sources and Movement around the Globe
NASA’s new 3-dimensional portrait of methane concentrations shows the world’s second largest contributor to greenhouse warming,…
Solar Energy Tracker Powers Down After 17 Years
After nearly two decades, the Sun has set for NASA’s SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE),…
Hubble Gazes at Fluffy-Looking Galaxy
NGC 4237 is classified as a flocculent spiral galaxy. This means that its spiral arms are…
Bennu in Unprecedented Detail
This global map of asteroid Bennu’s surface is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx…
Quasar Tsunamis Rip Across Galaxies
Astronomers have discovered the most energetic outflows ever witnessed in the universe. They emanate from quasars…