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Back to Article List A big-time asteroid impact in an already-cold climate is one way to create a snowball Earth. A rendering of a Snowball Earth. Credit: NASA Scientists think Earth may have undergone at least two extreme freeze events throughout its history,...
When doing the marketing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA and the other telescope contributors liked to point out how it would open up the early universe to scrutiny. They weren’t exaggerating, and now scientific studies are starting to...
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Like some hobbits, a wee Martian helicopter received a special honor.The final resting place of NASA's Ingenuity, grounded after its last flight on Jan. 18, now has a new name bestowed from fans of fantasy."The Ingenuity team has nicknamed the spot where the...
Back to Article List The asteroid that recently shot through the sky over Berlin turns out to have left some very interesting pieces behind. A meteorite fragment from asteroid 2024 BX1. Credit: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin/ Laura Kranich The asteroid 2024 BX1’s...
On January 21st, 2024, a meter-sized asteroid (2024 BX1) entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over Berlin at 12:33 am UTC (07:45 pm EST; 04:33 pm PST). Before it reached Earth, 2024 BX1 was a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) with an orbit that suggests it was part...
This wide view from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captures an algae bloom around the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or click on the circles to learn more. Algae in the South Atlantic often...
Like much of the world, NASA watched the second test flight of SpaceX's huge Starship rocket closely — and we can now see what the agency saw.That flight lifted off on Nov. 18, 2023, sending the two-stage Starship aloft from Starbase, SpaceX's site on Texas'...
Back to Article List NGC 4753’s unique shape is thought to be the aftermath of a galaxy merger more than a billion years ago. NGC 4753's twisting features. (Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: J. Miller (International...
Supernova are a fascinating phenomenon and have taught us much about the evolution of stars. The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman telescope will be hunting the elusive combination of supernovae in a gravitational lens system. With its observing field 200 times that...