The star WISPIT 2 was first observed using VLT-SPHERE (Very Large Telescope - Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch), a ground-based telescope in northern Chile operated by the ...

A supermoon takes over the sky, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteor shower shines bright.

Since we all have a relationship with the Sun, it is important to learn about how it impacts our lives. NASA’s Heliophysics ...

F.10 Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) solicits development and flight of a science-driven suite of instruments and ...

NASA is targeting a summer 2026 launch for its SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission. The heliophysics mission will launch as a ...

Many of the coronagraphs being studied and developed for space-based exoplanet detection rely on microelectromechanical system (MEMS) deformable mirrors (DM) ...

Part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity, was the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars when it launched in 2011. Curiosity set out to answer the question: Did Mars ever ...

Identification and characterization of nearby habitable exoplanets has been identified by the Astro2010 Decadal survey as the most important science frontier ...

Joe A. Adam of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presented the topic titled “ Surface Science in Microgravity – Fluid Geometry in the Ring-Sheared Drop ,” presented to a broad audience from academia ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colorful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most ...