This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy, NGC 4694. Most galaxies fall into one of two basic types.

In August 2024, the NASA Science Activation program’s Planetary Resources and Content Heroes (ReaCH) project held a ...

Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis of ...

There’s more to thunderclouds than rain and lightning. Thunderclouds can produce intense bursts of gamma rays.

Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own ...

Setting a fire in space sounds like a bad idea, scientists have been safely creating controlled flames in space for decades.

If you’re thinking of a galaxy, the image in your head is probably the Andromeda Galaxy! Read more about our closest galactic ...

Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver, a spaceflight first. As the spacecraft zipped past our Moon and home planet, ...

Applications Workshop took place December 7–8, 2023 at the California Institute of Technology Keck Institute for Space ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from ...

A.24 Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics (WEATHER) solicits proposals for participation in the North American Upstream ...

Many of the Sun’s nearest neighbors in space are brown dwarfs! But these objects are faint and hard to find, so the smallest ...