Science

One Year, 2 Trips Around Sun for NASA's Parker Solar Probe

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Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument saw the solar wind streaming past during the spacecraft's first solar encounter in November 2018....

NASA Selects Final Four Site Candidates for Asteroid Sample Return

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Pictured are the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu selected by NASA’s...

Hubble Catches 2 Galaxies at Play

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Hubble Catches 2 Galaxies at Play.

Evidence found for cloaked black hole in early universe

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Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed what may be the most distant shrouded black hole, which may have...

NASA Gauges Plant Stress in Costa Rican Drought

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The ECOSTRESS image shows plant stress in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica (in red on inset map) a few...

The Mystery of the Shrinking Storm

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Jupiter.

NASA's Spitzer Spies a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy

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Galaxy NGC 5866 lies 44 million light-years from Earth and has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years - a little more...

ALMA Dives into Black Hole’s ‘Sphere of Influence’

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ALMA has made the most precise measurements of cold gas swirling around a supermassive black hole -- the cosmic behemoth at the center of...