Science

NASA’s IBEX Charts 11 Years of Change at Boundary to Interstellar Space

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As the Sun wades through the interstellar medium, it generates a hot, dense wave like the wave at the front of a...

HOPS 383: X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest Days

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X-ray: NASA/CXC/Aix-Marseille University/N. Grosso et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss

A Cosmic Baby Is Discovered, and It's Brilliant

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This illustration shows magnetic field lines protruding from a highly magnetic neutron star, or a dense...

A Super View of a Supergiant

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A Super View of a Supergiant

Future Space Travelers May Follow Cosmic Lighthouses

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An image of NICER on the exterior of the space station with one of the station’s solar panels in the background.

Solar Orbiter makes first close approach to the Sun

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Solar Orbiter reaches first perihelion

ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet

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ExoMars...

NASA's Cold Atom Lab Takes One Giant Leap for Quantum Science

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This animated video shows six finely tuned lasers used inside NASA's Cold Atom Lab to slow down...