Astronomers on Thursday revealed a secret about the cosmic web. For the very first time, they successfully captured the elusive glow of this colossal structure, often regarded as the universe’s largest interconnected network. This cosmic web consists of intricate filaments that serve as cosmic highways, connecting galaxies spanning the vast...
The first-ever original sample collected from any asteroid by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has completed its extraordinary journey. 70% of the sample will be preserved for future scientists not yet born, according to OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission press kit. It touched down in the Utah desert on Sunday (Sept. 24)...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has captured an unusual galactic pair known as Arp 107.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission successfully delivered a capsule containing rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sunday, landing in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT).
Today, on September 24, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is on the verge of achieving a historic milestone in space exploration by delivering the first-ever pristine asteroid sample to Earth. Coverage of this extraordinary moment is being streamed live on NASA’s YouTube channel, starting at 10 a.m. EDT.
Launched on September 8, 2016, the spacecraft is on its way to deliver its samples to Earth, with the anticipated arrival date set for September 24.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected the source of carbon dioxide on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, located 390.4 million miles away from Earth. The presence of essential elements like carbon on the moon’s surface was uncertain until now. Astronomers used data from the Webb Space Telescope to...
NASA’s latest lunar images, featured in National Geographic Magazine’s special space issue and created from data captured by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and the ShadowCam instrument on Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), illuminates the lunar south pole’s unprecedented beauty.
A massive solar eruption occurred on September 16 and surged forth from the sun’s fiery surface, propelling a scorching coronal mass ejection (CME) in the direction of our home planet.
The distance to NGC 3156 is approximately 72.67 million light-years from us. With an apparent magnitude of 12.30 in the V-band and 13.07 in the B-band, NGC 3156 may not be among the brightest gems in the night sky, but its allure lies in its unique characteristics.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most advanced space-observing machine to date, has once again provided us with a stunning image of a young star, known as Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), emitting supersonic jets of matter.
However, even when clouds obscure the view, the unusual daytime darkness associated with eclipses will delight not only human observers but also the co-dwellers of this natural world. Birds seek their roosts, bees return to their hives, and even turtles emerge from their aquatic abodes in response to this transient celestial phenomenon.
NASA’s UFO research team published its independent report on Thursday, September 14th. The report has ruled out any extraterrestrial involvement in the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings, underlining the imperative for thorough scientific examination.
K2-18 b, which orbits a cool dwarf star called K2-18, has long been a subject of scientific curiosity due to its location within the habitable zone of its host star. The habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks zone, is a region where conditions may be just right for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface – a key ingredient for the development of life as we know it.
In an image recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, a globular cluster named Terzan 12 takes center stage, located 15,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius within our Milky Way galaxy.