A ring of light surrounding the center of NGC 6505, a nearby galaxy, is captured by…
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Searching the entire sky for the secrets to our universe : NPR
NASA’s SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing in August 2024. The mission will make the first all-sky spectroscopic…
NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications : NPR
NASA has instructed employees, contractors and grantees to remove all pronouns from their signatures. Celal Gunes/Anadolu…
The moon’s grand canyons were carved in the blink of an eye : NPR
Two grand canyons on the moon radiating from the Schrödinger impact basin, from a view that…
Black holes shoot out energetic jets in the universe : Short Wave : NPR
In 1918, astronomer Heber Curtis identified a black hole jet that seemed to shoot out of…
Inside a top-secret US nuclear facility in the Nevada desert
A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat,…
Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032 : NPR
A meteor contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in a photo…
The top 10 technologies for 2025 from from the MIT Tech Rev : Short Wave : NPR
For decades, editors at MIT Technology Review have set themselves the annual challenge of trying to…
Trump asks SpaceX to “go get” two stranded ISS astronauts : NPR
This image made from a NASA live stream shows NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore…
Why a new telescope may help the search for alien life in space : Short Wave : NPR
Bettymaya Foott/National Radio Astronomy Observatory Bettymaya Foott/National Radio Astronomy Observatory At the turn of the century,…