Huge Lava Lamp-Like Blobs Spotted in 40-Year-Old Observations of the Sun
Scientists have found lava lamp-like blobs up to 500 times larger than the Earth in the solar wind, in data from a pair of spacecraft that launched…
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a Congressional committee on Tuesday that President Trump’s accelerated timeline to put humans back on the Moon is within the space agency’s… Read More
NASA’s Curiosity rover shook the science community six years ago when it apparently detected traces of methane–an important chemical linked to life–on Mars. Researchers failed to confirm… Read More
Vice President Mike Pence announced this week that the Trump administration wants NASA to put American astronauts on the moon no later than 2024. And here at… Read More
Astronauts on the International Space Station have completed 214 spacewalks in the past 21 years, but none have been all-women endeavors. So it was very exciting earlier… Read More
Vice President Pence Gives NASA Five Years to Put Americans Back on the Moon–or Else
Speaking on behalf of President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to put American astronauts on the moon “within the next five years” at the…
Astronomers have created a catalog of 1,822 nearby stars around which the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission might spot planets receiving Earth-like levels of starlight. This… Read More
NASA scientists have released a boatload of data from OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Bennu. There are lots of interesting results–and some potential unforeseen challenges when… Read More
The second-largest asteroid to hit Earth in the last 30 years went undetected, until now. Read More
Nearly 25 years ago, the Pathfinder spacecraft explored a suspected floodplain on Mars. Unbeknownst to NASA at the time, the waters that long ago carved Pathfinder’s landing… Read More