Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory…
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New magnetometer aboard GOES-19 will improve space weather forecasts
Credit: NOAA Headquarters The Goddard Magnetometer (GMAG) instrument, launched onboard NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite on June 25,…
Primordial black holes could kick out stars and replace them
This artist’s illustration shows what primordial black holes might look like. In reality, the black holes…
NASA’s Perseverance rover to begin long climb up Martian crater rim
One of the navigation cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view looking back at…
Astronomers find galaxies in denser environments are as much as 25% larger than those in less dense regions
A Yale-led research team found that galaxies in dense regions of space are as much as…
Neutron-star mergers illuminate the mysteries of quark matter
During a neutron-star merger, the stars rapidly change shape and heat up, causing changes in the…
Researchers urge bringing them back to Earth
Red hexagons mark the four sites where the Perseverance rover collected rock samples around the sediment…
Scientist performs the first nonlinear study of black hole mimickers
Gravitational waves emitted from a black hole mimicker at the center. Brighter colors indicate higher amplitudes…
A hopper could explore more than 150 km of Triton’s surface in two years
Artist’s conception of the Triton Hopper mission. Credit S. Oleson Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, is one…
Primary instrument for Roman Space Telescope arrives at NASA Goddard
Technicians inspect NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument upon delivery to the big…