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Celebrate World Oceans Day on June 8, 2023World Oceans Day has been celebrated since 1992. It's a day to raise awareness about how we're connected to the oceans and... Read more »
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission — Live updates
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25 years of Copernicus
Video: 00:05:05 25 years ago, Copernicus set out to transform the way we see our planet. It is the largest environmental monitoring... Read more »
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NASA’s Europa Clipper Taking “Message in a Bottle” to JupiterNASA believes in getting the public excited about space, and they’re carrying on this tradition by recently announcing that space fans from... Read more »
- Is it Time for a New Definition of “Habitable?”Things tend to move from the simple to the complex when you’re trying to understand something new. This is the situation exoplanet... Read more »
- Missed the Mars Livestream? Here's the VideoWhen a mission to Mars reaches 20 years of service, that’s definitely reason to celebrate. ESA’s Mars Express celebrated by airing the... Read more »
- JWST Shows How the Early Universe Was Furiously Forming StarsWe can gaze out into regions in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way and find orgies of star birth. The closest region... Read more »
- VideoHawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts, lava pools on crater floorHawaii's Kilauea volcano in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park erupted on June 7, 2023. Pools of lava are filling the pit crater. Watch... Read more »
- Look North as the stars appear in June and July to have a chance of seeing rare noctilucent (or 'night-shining') clouds with... Read more »
- Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed the faintest galaxy yet seen in the early universe, a curious object that... Read more »
- The U.S. Northeast woke up to a "horribly smoky day" on Wednesday (June 7) as a low-pressure system funnels toxic smoke from... Read more »
NASA Awards $5 Million to Women’s Colleges Tackling STEM Gender Gap
As part of a Biden/Harris initiative, NASA will award more than $5 million in funding to seven Women’s Colleges and Universities (WCUs)... Read more »- United Launch Alliance's next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket took a big step toward its debut launch, acing a crucial engine firing today (June... Read more »
Best evidence yet for second supermassive black hole orbiting more massive companion
Emissions from a supermassive black hole orbiting a much more massive hole at the heart of a brilliant quasar have finally been... Read more »
- Back in action after its primary mirror was repaired and recoated, the Gemini North Telescope captures a spectacular view of a just-discovered... Read more »
- NASA invites media to attend the first major asteroid sample recovery rehearsal for its OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security... Read more »
Dusty, green webbing shows how stars form in NGC 5068
A far cry from the beautiful wide-field shots of barred spiral NGC 5068 you may be used to seeing, the the mossy... Read more »
Owen Jay Gingerich, 1930–2023Owen Jay Gingerich, well-known historian of astronomy and contributor to Sky & Telescope for more than half a century, died on May... Read more »- Parker Solar Probe peers into coronal hole, sees source of solar windThe Parker Solar Probe has looked into a coronal hole, helping to identify the source of the fast solar wind as magnetic... Read more »
- On June 5, 2023, Crew-5 astronauts Josh Cassada (left) and Nicole A. Mann (second from left) of NASA, and Japan Aerospace Exploration... Read more »
- Using data collected by NASA's sun-touching Parker Solar Probe, scientists have tracked the "fast" solar wind back to showerhead-like funnels generated by... Read more »
- Parabolic flights produce reduced gravity by following a wild trajectory of steep climbs and nerve-racking dives. The experience is out of this... Read more »
- SLS Could Launch a Sample Return Mission to Phobos and DeimosNASA’s next colossal rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), recently had its first successful flight back in November after years of development.... Read more »
- The constellation ARA (pronounced AIR-uh) the Altar was one of the “original” constellations of the Greeks. It appeared in Phaenomena, a 3rd-century-b.c.... Read more »
- James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Hundreds of Galaxies in Early UniverseIn the JWST version of the Hubble Deep Field, astronomers are discovering what galactic life was like in the earliest years of... Read more »
- Cara Gee took some time out of her busy belting schedule to talk to us about working on the upcoming The Expanse:... Read more »
- Video: 00:13:21 Satellites in orbit underpin our modern lives. They are used in many areas and disciplines, including space science, Earth observation,... Read more »
- Twenty-five years ago, Copernicus set out to transform the way we see our planet. Now, well established as the largest environmental monitoring... Read more »
- Image: First Mars livestream: the movie... Read more »
- Eligible schools, universities, museums, libraries, and planetariums interested in receiving historic NASA objects for their STEM programs have until Friday, June 30,... Read more »
- Dark matter, the invisible material that makes up the vast majority of the universe's mass, may collect itself to form atoms, a... Read more »
- Glimpse 45,000 baby galaxies in the early universeA new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captured more than 45,000 baby galaxies, at a time when our universe was... Read more »
- Sun activity: CME arrival delayed, 2 more CME blastsJune 7, 2023, sun activity. Two explosions fired ejecta into space. The expected arrival of the June 4 CME was delayed to... Read more »
- VideoVisible planets and night sky for June 2023June's visible planets: Venus and Mars are in the evening sky. Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury are in the morning sky. There will... Read more »
- The U.S. weather forecasting satellite GOES East observes how toxic air pollution from wildfires in Canada spreads southward to the U.S. Northeast.... Read more »
- Canadian wildfire smoke halts flights in northeastern U.S.Canadian wildfire smoke pouring across the border is turning skies milky white and bringing poor air quality to the northeastern U.S. The... Read more »
- Astraphobia is a fear of thunder and lightningIf your heart starts to race when a thunderstorm comes near, and you want to hide from the thunder and lightning, you... Read more »
Not your average space explosion: Very long baseline array finds classical novae are anything but simpleWhile studying classical novae using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a graduate researcher uncovered evidence the objects... Read more »- 20 Years of Mars Express Images Helped Build This Mosaic of the Red PlanetTo mark the 20th anniversary of the Mars Express mission, the ESA has released a stunning color mosaic image of Mars. The... Read more »
- There Are Hundreds of Mysterious Filaments at the Center of the Milky WaySeveral million years ago, the core of our galaxy experienced a powerful event. It blew out a huge bi-lobed bubble that blasted... Read more »
- Astronomers develop software to help eliminate streaks marring Hubble Space Telescope images caused by rapidly increasing numbers of Earth-orbiting satellites.... Read more »
- JWST Sees Organic Molecules Ludicrously Far AwayWhen astronomers used the JWST to look at a galaxy more than 12 billion light years away, they were also looking back... Read more »
- We Could Soon “Hear” the Gravitational Waves of Dying StarsMassive, dying stars — behemoths tens of times the Sun's mass — should emit gravitational waves that we can hear with LIGO.... Read more »
- NASA announced Tuesday the University of Alabama in Huntsville is the overall winner of the agency’s 2023 Student Launch challenge.... Read more »
- This colorful zinnia, shown in an image from Jan. 22, 2016, grew aboard the International Space Station as part of the VEG-01... Read more »
- Psyche on Track for October Launch to Metal-rich AsteroidAfter a year's delay, NASA's Psyche mission to the metal-rich asteroid of the same name is on track for a launch in... Read more »
- First detection of secondary supermassive black hole in a well-known binary systemAn international team of astronomers observed the second one of the two supermassive black holes circling each other in an active galaxy... Read more »
- Proposed design could double the efficiency of lightweight solar cells for space-based applicationsWhen it comes to supplying energy for space exploration and settlements, commonly available solar cells made of silicon or gallium arsenide are... Read more »
- Airbus Developed a System To Extract Oxygen and Metal From Lunar RegolithNew technologies utilizing material found in space are constantly popping up, sometimes from smaller companies and sometimes from larger ones. Back in... Read more »
- SETI looks to Milky Way’s heart for alien signalsA new SETI collaboration is searching for repeating artificial radio signals from alien civilizations in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.... Read more »
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