Space

NASA continues to collaborate with global communities to solve complex challenges through crowdsourcing with a series of 25 new NASA Open Innovation Service (NOIS) contracts managed by the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The contract aims to empower NASA’s...

When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex worlds and an active atmosphere on Pluto. Those snapshots redefined our understanding of the...

Every day, Earth faces a relentless attack from the Sun. A usually steady rain of tiny but fierce particles known as the solar wind can sometimes be interrupted by much bigger blasts, just like the one shown at the...

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak.On April 15, 2025, Espenak announced on his Facebook page that he had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, his health was declining rapidly, and...

There might be an upside to the loss of coral reefs. Their decline would mean oceans can absorb up...

Written by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion LaboratoryEarth planning date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025We came in early this morning and learned that part of Tuesday’s plan didn’t execute on Mars due to a temporary issue with...

President Donald Trump walks onstage to speak to a crowd at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission on May 30, 2020. The mission was the first crewed launch of the SpaceX...

Week in images: 26-30 May 2025 Discover our week through the lens Source link

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the Milky Way galaxy — and it's certainly none of...