In the search for life beyond Earth, icy ocean moons like Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are promising possibilities that...
Astrophysicists have performed a powerful new analysis that places the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of...
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the iconic “Pillars of Creation,” huge structures of gas and dust teeming with stars,...
The discovery of a so-called monster black hole that has about 12 times the mass of the sun is detailed...
NASA hit a bullseye in late September with DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which flew a spacecraft straight at...
Southwest Research Institute scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn’s rings from the Cassini mission. The compilation, published...
Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter—mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only...
Imagine taking a star twice the mass of the sun and crushing it to the size of Manhattan. The result...
Through the clever use of two types of telescopes, a team of researchers has produced stunning images of clusters of...
A scaled-down version of the aerobot that could one day take to the Venusian skies successfully completed two Nevada test...
In the early-morning hours of today, 14 October 2022, astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile operated by NSF’s...
Mission engineers will track NASA’s Lucy spacecraft nonstop as it prepares to swoop near Earth on Oct. 16 to use...
