Here is a view of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with brightness adjusted separately for Earth and the moon to show details on both bodies. To source
This NASA graphic displays all of the astronomical light sources included in the new NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, an online catalog of more than 100,000 galaxies. One of the most basic questions in astronomy is how far away something is. Now, a new catalog of objects will help scientists answer that question for tens of thousands […]
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NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station during the STS-126 space shuttle mission in 2008. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson are venturing outside the International Space Station today (Jan. 6) to upgrade the orbital outpost’s electrical power system. Kimbrough and Whitson departed through NASA’s Quest airlock shortly after […]
The ladders and blackboards seen in this still from the new movie “Hidden Figures” are among several subtle nods, or Easter eggs, to NASA’s early space race history. The 20th Century Fox film “Hidden Figures” tells the untold story of the African-American women who worked for NASA as “human computers” in the early days of […]
Lunar dust particles can travel across vast regions of the moon via static electricity. A new study may explain how dust particles on the moon “levitate” just above the surface, even though there is no wind or flowing water on the moon to kick-up the material. In a recent laboratory study, researchers found that micron-size […]
SpaceX now has an FAA license for seven Falcon 9 launches of Iridium spacecraft from this launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. GRAPEVINE, Texas — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a launch license to SpaceX for the upcoming return to flight of its Falcon 9, although its planned launch […]
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough (left in red stripe) and Peggy Whitson work retrieve adapter plates outside the International Space Station during a Jan. 6, 2017 spacewalk to upgrade the orbiting laboratory’s power system. Two NASA astronauts breezed through a spacewalk at the International Space Station today (Jan. 6) while performing upgrades to the outpost’s power […]
The bladed terrain of Pluto’s Tartarus Dorsa region, imaged by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015. Pluto’s strange “snakeskin” terrain has an Earthly counterpart, a new study suggests. The “scales” of this alien landscape, which were first spotted by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its epic Pluto […]
An artist’s illustration of a pulsar, a fast-spinning neutron star that fires off powerful beacons of light. Scientists have found two strange pulsars that seem to perform a “cosmic vanishing act.” GRAPEVINE, Texas — Two weird pulsars serve as extremely powerful and accurate cosmic clocks — some of the time. Pulsars are extremely dense neutron […]
Astronomers have discovered what happens when the eruption from a supermassive black hole is swept up by the collision and merger of two galaxy clusters. To source