This “remastered” view of Europa is based on information from NASA’s Galileo mission of the 1990s. The 2014 view more closely resembles how the moon of Jupiter would look like to the human eye.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute NASA’s Europa spacecraft will use nine scientific instruments to assess the icy, ocean-harboring Jupiter moon’s ability to support life, […]
1 of 10 Gorgeous New View of Medusa Nebula Credit: European Southern Observatory From the launch of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane to new views of the odd bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres, don’t miss these amazing space…Read More » images of the week for May 23, 2015. HERE: The Medusa […]
Editor’s Update for 11:30 am ET: The Air Force’s X-37B space plane has successfully launched on its fourth mission. Read our latest story: US Air Force Launches X-37B Space Plane on 4th Mystery Mission The United States Air Force’s X-37B space plane and a tiny solar-sailing spacecraft will launch into orbit today, and you can watch […]
An artist’s depiction of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) in orbit.Credit: NASA A clue to one of the biggest questions in cosmology — why regular matter, rather than antimatter, survived to fill the universe — may have been found in data from a NASA space telescope. A new study suggests that gamma-rays (high-energy light) […]
This image shows a rare view of four quasars, indicated by white arrows, found together by astronomers using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The bright galactic nuclei are embedded in a giant nebula of cool, dense gas visible in the image as a blue haze.Credit: Hennawi & Arrigoni-Battaia, MPIA A giant nebula in the early […]
The Andromeda Galaxy, shown here, may be much larger than astronomers previously thought. Astrophotographer Lorenzo Comolli took this photo Nov. 16, 2012, from Bogli, Italy.Credit: Lorenzo Comolli One of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors is surrounded by a much bigger halo of gas than previously thought, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal. […]
NASA’s Modular Robotic Vehicle (MRV), developed at the Johnson Space Center for eventual use off-world, could change how Earthly vehicles drive as well; ‘sideways’ on 4 independent wheel-motors, each of which can rotate 180°. It’s an electric vehicle that can travel up to 62 miles on a charge. Credit: NASA/JSC To source
An artistic representation of the exoplanet Gliese 832c as compared with Earth. The large planet may be Earth-like, or it could have a dense atmosphere and a closer relationship to Venus.Credit: PHL, University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo Long before the hunt began to find Earth lookalikes around other stars, one planet in the solar system […]
This photograph of Halley’s Comet was taken Jan. 13, 1986, by James W. Young, resident astronomer of JPL’s Table Mountain Observatory in the San Bernardino Mountains, using a 24-inch reflective telescope. Debris from Halley’s Comet produces the Eta Aquarids meteor shower each May. Credit: NASA/JPLCredit: NASA/JPL When asked to name a comet, most people will […]
DARPA is an agency of the U.S. military that tests and develops new technologies. To source
A young star in Orion’s dusty nebula roughly 1,400 light-years away has erupted after munching down gas and dust. To source
Over 400,000 volunteer citizen scientists have helped to identify over 2 million new celestial objects and five new supernovas in a wealth of data collected by the SkyMapper telescope. To source
This week, NASA and the space science community celebrated 25 years since the launch and deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, an instrument with one of the greatest redemption stories in science history. To source