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Astronomers have spotted a young galaxy far, far away that is loaded with ancient stardust from some of the earliest stars in the universe.  The dusty galaxy, named A2744_YD4, is the youngest and most remote galaxy ever observed by the European Southern Observatory’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.  You see a video of A2744_YD4 […]

The International Space Station (ISS) will soon host the coldest spot in the entire universe, if everything goes according to plan.  This August, NASA plans to launch to the ISS an experiment that will freeze atoms to only 1 billionth of a degree above absolute zero — more than 100 million times colder than the […]

<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31.5″> Shiny Space Threads Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Metallic garments and sparkly moon boots dominated the runway during Chanel’s show at Paris Fashion Week. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31.5″> The Man Behind the Rocket Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Chanel’s designer and creative director Karl Lagerfeld made an appearance on the Launchpad No. 5 runway during […]

Blue Origin’s first assembled BE-4, the engine that will power the company’s huge New Glenn rocket, is rolled across the factory floor. Blue Origin has revealed the first assembled engine that will power the spaceflight company’s next-generation megarocket. On Monday (March 6), Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos posted on Twitter two photos of the first […]

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos poses in front of his rocket. WASHINGTON — OneWeb has signed on as Blue Origin’s second customer for its New Glenn orbital launch vehicle , both companies announced March 8. In a tweet this morning, Blue Origin Founder Jeff Bezos said OneWeb has reserved five launches using the rocket, bringing to […]

A group photo featuring some of NASA’s female astronauts adorns the agency’s Twitter page today (March 8), in celebration of International Women’s Day. America’s space agency is celebrating International Women’s Day (March 8) and Women’s History Month in multiple ways.  At the top of NASA’s Twitter page today is a group photograph of 17 women […]

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. Pluto’s “demotion” to a dwarf planet back in 2006 is still a touchy subject, even among scientists. When you account for the fact that astronomers, who study stars and black holes, were the ones who decided on the definition […]

A new animated movie created by student filmmakers shows the journey of an adorable little photon who is sent on a long journey as part of a NASA science mission.  The star of the new animated short is Pho the Photon, a particle of light who wears goggles and propels himself forward by moving his […]

A map showing the subsidence of the San Joaquin Valley in California. The more yellow the color, the larger the sinking of the land. Some areas around Corcoran have subsided by nearly 2 feet (60 centimeters) in little more than a year. A new map made with satellite radar data shows the sinking of California’s […]

The JPSS-2 satellite, built by Orbital ATK, will launch on an Atlas 5 in the summer of 2021. WASHINGTON — NASA awarded a contract to United Launch Alliance March 3 for the launch of the second in a series of next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellites. The contract for the launch of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) […]