NASA Gears Up for Weekend Launch Carrying Missions to Study the Milky Way and Sun
A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.
Astronaut’s Remarkable Image Captures Milky Way Beyond Earth’s Horizon
The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
Image: The Milky Way on the horizon
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...
Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
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An Astronaut Just Captured a Jaw-Dropping Photo of Earth and the Milky Way from Space
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...
NASA astronaut captures most stunning view of Milky Way on Earth's horizon from space
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking image of the Milky Way from the International Space Station, offering a ...
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NASA supercomputer finds Milky Way-like spiral at solar system’s edge
The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.
NASA’s next big mission: A cutting-edge telescope is launching soon — Here’s what SPHEREx will explore
SPHEREx, NASA's latest space telescope, was initially set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in late February. But the ...
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NASA's Hubble provides bird's-eye view of Andromeda galaxy's ecosystem
Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't ...
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New NASA Space Telescope Will See the Universe in 102 Colors
NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals a Never-Ending Cosmic Firestorm at the Center of the Milky Way
Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...