Japan plans new atomic regulator by September
First Flight Instrument Delivered For James Webb Space Telescope
The first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA.
Trial by vacuum brings next Galileo satellites closer to launch
The next two Galileo navigation satellites have now endured the harsh vacuum and temperature extremes...
A Trick of Perspective — Chance Alignment Mimics a Cosmic Collision
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a highly detailed image of a pair of overlapping galaxies called NGC 3314...
Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon
Saturn's rings lie in the distance as the Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and its...
Small Planets Don't Need Stars With Heavy Metal Content To Form
The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon.
NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched this morning over the central Pacific, beginning its...
One Ring to Bring Them All: Eclipse Enchants Grand Canyon Audiences
The strange transformation of sunbeams into rings of light after...
