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Nearly a decade ago, an explosion on the sun "contained components of three different types of solar eruptions". Studying the eruption could unlock mysteries on how they occur. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...
President Donald Trump’s nominee to run NASA will tell US senators the agency’s priority will be to send US astronauts to Mars, while promoting a thriving space economy in orbit. (Photographer: Kent ...
NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its eyes to space, capturing its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the surrounding solar system. With four satellites now fully activated, scientists ...
Dr. Natasha Latouf, 26, a graduate research fellow and astrophysicist, is the real-life “Legally Blonde.” Despite early doubts about her abilities as a woman in STEM, she persevered, working three ...
NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...
Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...
NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...
Now, a new satellite instrument from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designed to catch those minute shifts. Coined the ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed that the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential ...
The Trump administration’s draft budget plan for fiscal 2026 includes deep cuts to NASA’s science programs as part of an overall 20% reduction in the agency’s annual spending, leaked documents from ...
Unlike terrestrial crops like trees, fruits, vegetables and herbs, seaweed requires no fertilizer, pesticides, freshwater or land to grow.
In response to reports of the Trump administration aiming to slash NASA's 2026 science budget by nearly half, US Planetary ...