Satellite Missions/Shuttles

Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter than the Sun! That's how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has seen our neighbor in space for the…

Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel/D. Rutter A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around stars similar to…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Astronomers have uncovered a new way of searching for life in the cosmos. Harsh ultraviolet radiation flares from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life on planets, might help uncover hidden biospheres. Their…

This video illustrates the solar wind. The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission -- MMS -- has spent the past four years using high-resolution instruments to see what no other spacecraft can. Recently, MMS made the first high-resolution…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in…

Brittany Seto '16, who studied computer science at UC Riverside, interned at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where a record number of UCR undergraduates are spending the summerCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech RIVERSIDE, Calif. --…

Credit: Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn In order to do groundbreaking science, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope must first perform an extremely choreographed series of deployments, extensions, and movements that bring the observatory…

Radiation exposure impairs learning and memory, causes anxietyCredit: Acharya et al., eNeuro 2019 Exposure to chronic, low dose radiation -- the conditions present in deep space -- causes neural and behavioral impairments in…

University of Arizona researchers have designed a new kind of telescope that is a cheaper, lighter and more powerful option than creating telescopes using ever-larger mirrors. With a fleet of the newly designed space telescopes, they aim to…

Credit: NASA/GSFC/F. Reddy Summary: To find life on other planets, scientists look for traces of gases produced by living things Some stars may produce these gases in a planet without life The SISTINE sounding…