The atomic nucleus is a busy place. Its constituent protons and neutrons occasionally collide, and briefly fly apart with high...
Engineers have repaired an issue affecting data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. Earlier this year, the probe’s attitude articulation and...
Finding water on the moon could be easier with a Goddard technology that uses an effect called quantum tunneling to...
For the first time, astronomers have found unambiguous evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet (a planet...
“To see a world in a grain of sand,” the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an...
NASA this week shared an audio clip on social media that allows you to “hear” a black hole. No surprise,...
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of...
It’s been 50 years since humans last visited the Moon, and even robotic missions have been few and far between....
The latest images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are stunners. Captured on July 27, the infrared...
Astronomers frequently observe carbon monoxide in planetary nurseries. The compound is ultra-bright and extremely common in protoplanetary disks—regions of dust...
The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped...
A newly discovered impact crater below the seafloor hints at the possibility that more than one asteroid hit Earth during...
