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Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...
What is the Solar System truly like? In this video, we take a closer look at real images captured by NASA and other space agencies, showcasing our planets and the vast beauty of the Milky Way without ...
NASA's James Webb Super Telescope found something intriguing when studying exoplanets: rain. But not the kind of rain it ...
Another NASA-funded tech demo named Athena EPIC was also aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Led by NASA's Langley Research Center, ...
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the very first solid particles forming around a baby sun-like star, HOPS-315, over 1,300 light-years away. Using Nasa’s James Webb Telescope and ALMA in ...
Almost everything you could want to know about Jupiter's biggest moon, Ganymede.
The same charged particles from the Sun’s atmosphere responsible for the northern lights can also damage Earth’s electrical and communications systems.
Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, ...
Scientists in india have created a wind-solar system in a tree shape, which combines wind turbines and a PV system with ...
At high doses, cosmic rays can tear through DNA molecules and damage biological tissue. Prolonged exposure to cosmic ...
SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the ...
U-M astronomy is helping understand this fast, old and large comet that was born outside our galactic neighborhood This diagram shows the trajectory ...