James Webb Space Telescope observes nearby star-forming region NGC 1333 in infrared

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana NASA’s James Webb…

Polaris Dawn project aims to prevent bone loss in space

A Dartmouth project aboard Polaris Dawn tackles the breakdown of astronauts’ bones in zero gravity. Credit:…

Protection from cosmic radiation with boron nitride nanotube fibers

Applications of BNNT-based functional fabrics / The BNNT-based composite fibers can be manufactured into fabrics of…

NASA’s EZIE mission set for 2025 launch

Technicians attach a solar array to one of the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) CubeSats. Credit:…

JunoCam spots new volcano on active Io

A comparison of JunoCam data from April 2024 with imagery from the Galileo mission of the…

Observational study supports century-old theory that challenges the Big Bang

Northeastern University researchers have shown that our visible universe and invisible dark matter likely co-evolved from…

9 phenomena NASA astronauts will encounter at Moon’s south pole

This graphic shows maximum summer and winter temperatures near the lunar South Pole. Purple, blue, and…

NASA scientists recreate Mars’s spider-shaped geologic formations in lab for the first time

Spider-shaped features called araneiform terrain are found in the southern hemisphere of Mars, carved into the…

Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope produces its first magnetic field maps of the sun’s corona

The NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope presents its first map of the solar coronal magnetic…

Soyuz craft heads to space station with 2 Russians and 1 American

In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation, the Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with…