Tag: NASA
Hubble telescope watches supernova explosion
Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a before-and-after image of a star exploding brightly. With the images one year apa [...]
New York to Los Angeles in 3 hours, is closer
Supersonic commercial travel could soon be coming to the U.S. following a new executive order lifting a 52-year ban on overland commercial supersonic [...]
Earth is drying out at unprecedented rate
The world is losing fresh water at an unprecedented rate, two decades' worth of satellite data has revealed.
Measurements from NASA's twin GRACE s [...]
NASA studies comet 3I/ATLAS as Hubble estimates size
A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the crisp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space [...]
Webb scratches beyond surface of Cat’s Paw
It’s the cat’s meow! To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has [...]
Webb ‘pierces’ through the Bullet Cluster
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster, delivering highly detailed images that show a greater abundance of extrem [...]
Ringed planets, more than mere decoration
Though we think of rings as being decorative elements of a planet, they are active, dynamic structures.
For centuries Saturn was famous as our sol [...]
Webb can see the early universe
When astronomers use a telescope to look farther away, they are also looking back in time.
When we look out into the universe, we see a variety of [...]
Bacteria aligns to magnetic field, needs friends to survive
In her book "Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life's Purpose," the sociologist and life coach Martha Beck describes two differe [...]
Titan Forecast: Partly Cloudy, Methane Showers
Saturn’s moon Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, [...]