New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A are being released from NASA’s Chandra X ray Observatory. Each includes X ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. They show dramatic changes in the debris and radiation remaining after the...

   NASA has developed an advanced propulsion technology to facilitate future planetary exploration missions using small spacecraft. Not only will this technology enable new types of planetary science missions, one of NASA’s commercial partners is already preparing to use it for another purpose to...

   While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to search for potential evidence of past life , according to the official...

   ESA’s Mars Express has snapped the telltale traces of spiders scattered across the southern polar region of Mars.

   Planetary nebula are some of nature’s most stunning visual displays. The name is confusing since they’re the remains of stars, not planets. But that doesn’t detract from their status as objects of captivating beauty and intense scientific study.

   SpaceX sent up the th launch from the Space Coast for the year on the evening of April , a mission that also featured the company’s th successful booster recovery.

   While ESA’s satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma rays high energy photons coming from the nearby galaxy M . Only a few hours later, ESA’s XMM Newton X ray space telescope searched for an afterglow from the explosion but found none.

   An international study, led by researchers from Monash University, has revealed crucial insights into black hole dynamics within massive disks at the centers of galaxies.

   A new study, led by the University of Oxford and MIT, has recovered a . billion year old record of Earth’s magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth today. The findings have been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

   The moon’s steadfast illumination of our night sky has been a source of wonder and inspiration for millennia. Since the first satellite images of its surface were taken in the s, our understanding of Earth’s companion through time has developed immeasurably. A complex interplay of cosmic...

   China’s space agency is making final preparations to send a new crew to its space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put people on the moon by .

   Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Wednesday after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon.

   The universe’s early galaxies were less chaotic and developed much faster than previously thought, according to new research looking back more than ten billion years in time. An international team of astronomers led by Durham University, UK, has used the James Webb Space Telescope JWST to find...

   In celebration of the th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope on April , astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula also known as Messier , M, or NGC located, light years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus....

   The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite TESS , scientists discovered thousands of exoplanets, most of which were detected and confirmed using indirect methods.

   Turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. It exists everywhere, from our daily lives to the distant universe, while being labeled as the last great unsolved problem of classical physics by Richard Feynman. Prof. Dr. Huirong Yan and her group from the Institute of Physics and Astronomy at the University...

   NASA recently announced that it is seeking new ways to complete the return to Earth of rock cores drilled by the Perseverance Rover in the Jezero Crater on Mars. This has led to some anxiety among space scientists, who view the Mars Sample Return MSR mission as a cornerstone of plans to explore...

   SpaceX is set to send up the th launch on the Space Coast this year targeting an evening liftoff Tuesday that would see the th booster recovery if successful.

   South Africa’s Karoo region is a vast semi arid area that stretches across four of the country’s provinces. It is sparsely populated and renowned for its wide open spaces.

   Thanks to new sophisticated techniques and state of the art facilities, astronomy has entered a new era in which the depth of the sky can finally be accessed. The ingredients of our cosmic home, the Milky Way galaxy stars, gas, magnetic fields can at long last be mapped in D.

   New research published in Nature showcases new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope JWST that suggest black holes rapidly shut off star formation in massive galaxies by explosively removing large amounts of gas.

   Using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope CFHT , Indian astronomers have performed wide and deep field observations of a polar ring galaxy known as NGC . Results of the observational campaign, published April on the pre print server arXiv, shed more light on the globular cluster system of...

   A small team of planetary scientists from the California Institute of Technology, Université Côte d’Azur and Southwest Research Institute reports possible new evidence of Planet . They have published their paper on the arXiv preprint server, and it has been accepted for publication in The...

   New research from the group of MIT Professor Brett McGuire has revealed the presence of a previously unknown molecule in space. The team’s open access paper, Rotational Spectrum and First Interstellar Detection of Methoxyethanol Using ALMA Observations of NGC I, was published in the April...

   With the naked eye, you can’t see the weather in space, or feel the cosmic rays beaming down to Earth but they can impact critical systems like our climate, computer connectivity, communications and even our health.

   For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager, are the only spacecraft to ever...

   Teams led by Southwest Research Institute successfully executed two experiments by land and air collecting unique solar data from the total eclipse that cast a shadow from Texas to Maine on April, . The Citizen Continental America Telescopic Eclipse CATE experiment engaged more than...

   The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater has scientists scratching their heads.

   Gamma ray bursts GRBs are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a few seconds than the sun will produce over its ten billion year lifetime. These transient phenomena present one of the most challenging puzzles in astrophysics, dating back to their accidental...

   Simulated effects of microgravity significantly affect rhythmicity and sleep in humans, a new study from the University of Surrey finds. Such disturbances could negatively affect the physiology and performance of astronauts in space.