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NASA Observes Earth Day With Downloadable Art
To honor the day's 50th anniversary, NASA's JPL has unveiled posters in which our home planet is the star.
California Nebula Stars in Final Mosaic by NASA's Spitzer
The image composite is just one of hundreds that the infrared observatory produced during its 16 years in space.
Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' 20: Mysterious black holes
In this episode of Life's Little Mysteries, we'll take a closer look at black holes, the mysterious cosmic objects that have a gravitational pull so strong that not even light...
International Dark Sky Week 2020 starts Sunday — here's how to celebrate online
Celebrate International Dark Sky Week from anywhere, with sessions streaming online starting Sunday (April 19).
NASA sets launch date for SpaceX U.S. manned mission to space station
NASA on Friday set a launch date of May 27 for its first astronaut mission from U.S. soil in nearly ten years.
Bob Saget to launch 'Here for You' podcast Monday
"Fuller House" star Bob Saget will host "Bob Saget's Here for You," a new podcast featuring celebrity guests John Stamos, Tiffany Haddish, John Mayer and Macaulay Culkin.
Watch: GOT7 shares monograph teaser for 'Dye' EP
K-pop group GOT7 released a video for its forthcoming EP, "Dye," featuring behind-the-scenes footage of a photoshoot.
NASA announces first SpaceX crewed flight for May 27
NASA announced on Friday that a SpaceX rocket will send two American astronauts to the International Space Station in May, the first manned US spaceflight in nearly a decade.
SpaceX, NASA target May 27 for 1st Crew Dragon test flight with astronauts
SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for the first launch of American astronauts into orbit from U.S. soil in nine years. They'll fly on a Crew Dragon space capsule.
New 'Space Fan' Lego minifigure sports her own NASA model rocket
Ever since Lego released spacesuit-clad minifigures in 1978, many Lego fans have been space fans and vice-versa. Now, the two fandoms have been captured in one new collectible minifigure.
NASA sets May 27 date for historic first SpaceX launch with crew aboard
NASA has set May 27 for SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule to launch astronauts from Florida -- the first such launch from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program ended in...
Impacts on asteroids produce regolith, erase small craters
Impact cratering both produces new regolith and causes seismic events that can degrade and erase small craters on the surface of asteroids, a paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist...
What was it like to work on Apollo 13? Mission engineers to recall the hair-raising flight in webcast today.
Fifty years after Apollo 13, you can hear NASA's Apollo engineers discussing live what it was really like to work at the agency during one of its most hair-raising missions.
Dystopian fiction has always been real for Ray Bradbury prize winner Marlon James
Marlon James, whose novel "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" pioneered queer fantasy, thanks Mary Shelley and "Moby Dick" for predicting our current crisis.
Rocket-Borne Telescope Detects Super-Fine Strands on the Sun
Portal origin URL: Rocket-Borne Telescope Detects Super-Fine Strands on the SunPortal origin nid: 459979Published: Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 13:57Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The High-Resolution Coronal Imager captured the highest-resolution...
Video: Views of Earth from BepiColombo's flyby
A compilation of about 200 images collected by the joint European-Japanese mission BepiColombo during its first—and only—flyby of Earth on 10 April 2020, a manoeuvre needed to adjust its trajectory...
ESA helps analyze untouched Moon rocks
Almost 50 years after the Apollo missions returned lunar material to Earth, ESA experts are helping to uncover the secrets of two previously unopened samples to learn more about ancient...
Jean-Marie Luton, 1942-2020
Jean-Marie Luton passed away on 16 April 2020 at the age of 77. He was ESA’s fourth Director General, serving from 1990 to 1997. A French aerospace engineer, he held...
Ailing Intelsat satellite begins new life in orbit after historic servicing mission success
The first commercial satellite servicing mission has been declared a success after the Intelsat 901 (IS-901) satellite returned to work with help from Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Vehicle 1 (MEV-1).
Fragmentation of comet ATLAS observed on the first crowd-sourced pictures from citizen astronomers
A group of citizen astronomers scattered all over the world has just demonstrated how a network of digital Unistellar eVscopes can work together to deliver the first-of-its-kind crowd-generated images of...
Dust devils may roam hydrocarbon dunes on Saturn's moon Titan
Meteorological conditions on Saturn's large moon Titan, the strange, distant world that may be the most Earth-like in the solar system, appear conducive to the formation of dust devils, according...
Astronomers spot star dancing around black hole according to Einstein's theory
Astronomers in Chile using one of the world's largest telescopes have found a star "dancing" around a black hole in the Milky Way just as Albert Einstein might have predicted...
In photos: Astronauts return to Earth from International Space Station
NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka landed in Kazakhstan on April 17, 2020, returning from months working aboard the International Space Station. The travelers...
Astronauts return from months in space to Earth changed by pandemic
Two astronauts and a cosmonaut landed on Earth at 1:16 a.m. EDT Friday, completing their mission aboard the International Space Station.
ESA helps analyse untouched Moon rocks
Almost 50 years after the Apollo missions returned lunar material to Earth, ESA experts are helping to uncover the secrets of two previously unopened samples to learn more about ancient...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aces asteroid-sampling dress rehearsal
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is getting ready to scoop a sample of asteroid Bennu, has successfully completed a partial dress rehearsal for its historic trip to the asteroid's surface.
Astronomers spot quasar with the most powerful winds ever seen
Scientists took a second look at a strange object and spotted the most powerful winds ever seen gusting off of a special flavor of black hole called a quasar.
A weird stellar explosion may have caused the brightest supernova yet seen
The brightest supernova ever seen may be the first known example of a rare type of stellar explosion. The supernova, spotted in 2016 in a galaxy about 4.6 billion light-years away, radiated...