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Hubble's uncovers ultra-massive white dwarf star formed from a merger with another star. They may be more common than previously suspected..
This Hubble image features a portion of the star-forming region called the Tarantula Nebula located about 160,000 light-years away.
The supermassive black hole imaged by the EHT is located in the center of the elliptical galaxy M87, located about 55 million light years from Earth. This image was captured by FORS2 on ESO's Very ...
On July 16, 2025, more than 400 public library staff from across the United States joined a powerful webinar, Serving Neurodiverse Library Patrons and Colleagues, hosted by two NASA Science Activation ...
Different clouds types can have different effects on our weather and climate, which makes identifying cloud types important – but learning to identify cloud types can be tricky! Educational games make ...
Venus-Jupiter Conjunction and Meteor Mojo Jupiter and Venus shine brightly in the mornings as they appear to graze each other in the sky on the 11th and 12th. The Perseids are washed out by the Moon.
As NASA and its partners prepare to send astronauts back to the Moon, we must address the potential dangers caused by space weather, which can damage spacecraft and cause physical harm to unprotected ...
On October 4–5, 2025, NASA—along with 14 international space agency partners—invites scientists, engineers, coders, designers, storytellers, and space enthusiasts of all kinds to take part in the 2025 ...
A Q&A with the lead U.S. scientist of the mission, which will track changes in everything from wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ...
Chandrayaan-1, the first Indian deep space mission, was launched to orbit the Moon and to dispatch an impactor to the surface. Scientific goals included the study of the chemical, mineralogical and ...
By Alan Buis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, not the least of which were a series of devastating fires around the globe that bear the fingerprints ...
Earth’s magnetosphere shields us from harmful energy from the Sun and deep space. Take a deep dive to the center of our world to learn more about its causes, effects, variations, and how scientists ...