Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot
With more than one million views at present, this video of CARL SAGAN's eloquent, poetic meditation on 'the…
A ‘Lost Galaxy’ Found, Sun Science Stamps Arrive
A galaxy far, far away, thought 'lost,' has been discovered via the Hubble Telescope. And the Postal Service…
NASA to Advance Unique 3D Printed Sensor Technology
Awarded a $2 million technology development award, NASA technologist MAHMOODA SULTANA and her team are developing technology that…
An Atmosphere Around the Moon?
Water on the Moon? New research suggests billions of years ago the Moon had an atmosphere composed primarily…
Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole
‘If future observations confirm this team’s findings, this would be the first birth of a black hole ever…
NASA’s Fermi Discovers the Most Extreme Blazars Yet
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions…
Saturn’s Rings in Daylight, On the Night Side
A spectacular view of Saturn's rings as photographed from the planet's nightside by the Cassini spacecraft on the…
Investigating Stellar Shrapnel
Thousands of years ago, 160 light years away from Earth, a star exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel across the…
First Global Topographic Model of Mercury
NASA’s MESSENGER mission has unveiled the first global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail…
Hubble Sees a Supermassive, Super-hungry Galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has located spiral galaxy NGC 4845, more than 65 million light-years away in…