What’s that bright object in the night sky? Here’s a guide
Long and sparkly, the winter night sky is a spectacle — inviting us to wrap up, go outside and gaze up at planets, stars, airplanes, a sudden meteor and the …
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Experience NASA and space with your own eyes at Oakland’s Chabot Space and Science Center
The sheer beauty of space first struck Ben Burress as a child gazing up at stars, planets and galaxies through the Chabot Observatory telescopes in the 1970s. Decades later, that …
NASA Ames builds the future. What’s next?
Make American airplanes the best and fastest in the world. When a 16-foot wind tunnel was erected in Sunnyvale in the early days of World War II, that was the …
Webb Finds That Many Old, Distant Galaxies Look Like Surfboards
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin), Micaela Bagley (UT Austin), Rebecca Larson (UT Austin) While the James Webb Space Telescope has been busy helping scientists solve some …
Astronaut Steve Smith’s time in space has shaped the course of his existence
Many kids dream of becoming an astronaut. San Jose’s Steve Smith remembers scrawling his space exploration fantasies in crayon, too — but his dreams came true. Smith flew four space …
A complete celestial calendar for 2024
The sky is nature’s canvas, and every year, an array of astronomical phenomena paints the heavens with otherworldly sights guaranteed to fill us with awe. From new moons to lunar …
Japan becomes fifth country on Earth to land on the moon
By Mari Yamaguchi | Associated Press TOKYO — Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecrafts without astronauts successfully made a soft …
The race for the moon – podcast | News
Robin McKie is the science editor of the Observer. Over the last 42 years, he’s covered everything from advances in genetics and new discoveries in physics to the urgent scientific …
Webb Answers One of the Early Universe’s Biggest Questions
This image shows the galaxy EGSY8p7, a bright galaxy in the early Universe. This galaxy emits light and excited hydrogen atoms, known as Lyman-α emission, among other things. This galaxy …
Stunning Supernova Remnant Leaves Beautiful Echoes in Space
“This image features a relatively small galaxy known as UGC 5189A, which is located about 150 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy was observed by Hubble to …