An illustration of exoplanet K2-18b based on scientific observations NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) A…
It Started as Winter Break. It Ended With a Doomed Moon Mission.
A gaggle of students from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh traveled to Florida last month during…
Picturing Proba-3 for safer double satellite control
Enabling & Support 01/02/2024 422 views 4 likes Controlling a single satellite in orbit is tough…
The forest for the trees, the galaxy for the stars
This image shows a densely packed field of stars, laid on top of a background of dust,…
Spaceplane Stacked and Shaken at NASA Test Facility
Nose-up and bathed in soft blue lights, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane and its Shooting Star…
“Seeing” the Dark Matter Web That Surrounds the Coma Cluster
According to our predominant cosmological models, Dark Matter makes up the majority of mass in the…
How layoffs at JPL can be traced to a…
What happened? On Feb. 6, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Director Laurie Leshin announced layoffs of…
Webb sees a cat’s tail in Beta Pictoris
The Beta Pictoris system has fascinated astronomers for decades, because it’s relatively nearly and has an…
Meteor Showers in 2024
Geminids meteor shower over Kitt Peak National Observatory. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab). License: CC BY…
Hubble spots a galaxy shrouded by stars
This Hubble image shows irregular galaxy ESO 245-5 located some of 15 million light-years from Earth.…