Artist’s depiction of the OSIRIS-Rex sample return mission barely touching Bennu, the asteroid is successfully sampled.…
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Enceladus has all the raw materials for life, researchers say
Saturn’s moon Enceladus isn’t just bright and beautiful. It has an ocean under all that ice…
Astronomers are hoping to detect gravitational waves coming from supernova 1987A
Hubble Space Telescope image of SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA A supernova explosion…
Subglacial water could extend the classical habitable zone of exoplanets, says study
Boundaries of the Habitable Zone under various climate and atmospheric models as a function of radiative…
Webb and Hubble combine to create most colorful view of universe
This panchromatic view of galaxy cluster MACS0416 was created by combining infrared observations from NASA’s James…
What can slime mold teach us about the universe?
An artist’s impression of the cosmic web, the filamentary structure that fills the entire universe. Credit:…
Glow in the visible range detected for the first time in the Martian night
Spectral distribution of light emitted in the polar regions of Mars during winter periods (in black).…
NASA sounding rocket launches into Alaskan aurora
Credit: NASA/Lee Wingfield A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov.…
Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died at age 95
This late 1960s portrait shows U.S. Col. Frank Borman, commander of the Apollo 8 flight. Borman,…
Astronomers use Webb data to measure rapid increase in oxygen in the early universe
JWST infrared images of six galaxies from 500–700 million years after the birth of the universe.…