Article Published by: bbc.com To understand the SAA, you must first understand the Van Allen radiation belts. These are two doughnut-shaped areas of charged particles that surround the Earth and are held in place by its magnetic field. “The Sun puts out a huge amount of...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov An SUV-size space rock flew past our planet over the weekend and was detected by a NASA-funded asteroid survey as it departed. Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov Distant cosmic objects such as planets, galaxies, and nebulae are sometimes referred to by the scientific community with unofficial nicknames. As the scientific community works to identify and address systemic discrimination and inequality in all aspects of the field, it has become...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov Mars is an obvious source of inspiration for science fiction stories. It is familiar and well-studied, yet different and far enough away to compel otherworldly adventures. NASA has its sights on the Red Planet for many of the same reasons. Robots, including the...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. Jackson started her NASA career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s...
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Article Published by: forbes.com The next solstice comes this Saturday morning, depending on your time zone, and will be followed less than 24 hours later by a special celestial treat in the form of a partial, annular solar eclipse. This type of eclipse will see the new...
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Article Published by: cnn.com Tom Cruise wants to fly into outer space in the name of filmmaking, and NASA says it's happening. The head of NASA confirmed Tuesday that the space agency is working with actor Tom Cruise to make a movie on the International Space Station....
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Article Published by: space.com Thank your lucky stars that the sun is pretty weird, as scientists have learned by comparing its activity with that of similar stars. In new research, astronomers compared the brightness of our sun over time with data gathered on other stars by NASA's...
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Article published by: sciencedaily.com Since its discovery in 2017, an air of mystery has surrounded the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, an elongated, cigar-shaped body named 'Oumuamua (Hawaiian for "a messenger from afar arriving first"). How was it formed, and where did it...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that passed too close. Weighing in at about 50,000 times...
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