Astronomers found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles per hour — so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and the Moon in just 6 minutes. The discovery was made using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). Pulsars are superdense, ...
NASA’s first rover mission to Mars, the Pathfinder, imaged an extraterrestrial marine spillover landscape 22 years ago, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis Rodriguez. The landing site is on the spillway of an ancient sea that experienced catastrophic floods released from the planet’s subsurface and its sediments. This could ...
Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies. They were first discovered in 1784 by William Herschel and were originally classified as a single irregular galaxy because of their odd shape. However, we now know that NGC 6052 actually consists of two galaxies that are in the process of ...
NASA’s Hubble telescope recently captured a series of images of Neptune and Uranus that show two huge storms on the icy planets. Images were taken during the telescope’s routine annual weather monitoring schedule. The storms on both planets were concentrated in the northern regions. NASA’s Hubble Telescope captures planetary storms The storm identified on Neptune ...
What’s the coldest place you can think of? Temperatures on a winter day in Antarctica dip as low as −120ºF (−85ºC). On the dark side of the Moon, they hit −280ºF (−173ºC). But inside NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory on the International Space Station, scientists are creating something even colder. The Cold Atom Lab (CAL) is ...
Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a new world, a planet roughly twice the size of Earth located within its star’s habitable zone, the range of orbital distances where liquid water may exist on the planet’s surface. The new world, known as K2-288Bb, could be rocky or could be a gas-rich ...
NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 11 billion miles (about 17.7 billion kilometers) from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from the Earth to the ...
Mars is our closest interstellar neighbor, and the red planet is currently in the middle of massive dust storms that have been circling it for the past couple of weeks. While these present an awesome opportunity for scientists to study the unique weather patterns of Mars, they could spell disaster for the two rovers that ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence of ancient organic material preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the search for current life on the Red Planet. While not necessarily evidence of life itself, these findings are ...
An international team of astronomers is releasing the most comprehensive, high-resolution ultraviolet light survey of nearby star-forming galaxies by capitalizing on the unparalleled sharpness and spectral range of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The researchers combined new Hubble observations with archival Hubble images for 50 star-forming spiral and dwarf galaxies in the local universe, offering a ...
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