A solar neighborhood census, thanks to NASA citizen science

To take a census of nearby cosmic objects, sending out a survey won't work. Scientists need to use many telescopes with different specializations to chart what is in the general neighborhood of the ... Read More

NASA's planet-hunter TESS temporarily shuts off

SpaceX launched TESS in 2018 to replace the decommissioned Kepler telescope as NASA's primary planet-hunter. The satellite surveys bright stars for evidence of planetary objects in their orbit with a ... Read More

Most distant spacecraft from Earth sends data to NASA for first time in 5 months

The most distant spacecraft from Earth has resumed sending data after a five-month gap, NASA said Monday. Read More

Extrasolar Planets News

1, 2024 — Up to a certain point, very luminous stars can have a positive effect on the formation of planets ... study's authors, there are ... Newly Discovered Carbon Monoxide-Runaway Gap Can ... Read More

During the awe of totality, scientists studied our planet’s reactions

Such data could help lead to better short-term weather and long-term climate predictions. While gravity waves are among the smallest atmospheric waves that scientists study, their effects can be ... Read More

Meet the North Texas citizen scientists helping NASA study the sun during the total solar eclipse

But rather than watching from her home in Farmer’s ... Science Foundation and NASA. During the eclipse, teams of volunteers along the path of totality will use telescopes to help gather data. Read More

If Alien Life Is Found, How Should Scientists Break the News?

Will the news cause ... up on Earth’s southernmost continent 13,000 years ago. In 1996 a group of scientists—some of whom were affiliated with NASA—claimed in the journal Science that ... Read More

Explore the Universe with the First E-Book from NASA’s Fermi

To commemorate a milestone anniversary for NASA’s Fermi spacecraft, the mission team has published an e-book called “Our High-Energy Universe: 15 Years with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.” ... Read More

NASA looking for ‘citizen scientists’ to photograph solar eclipse to help map the sun

NASA has teamed up with Western Kentucky University to develop an app to track April’s solar eclipse on a cell phone — and they are looking for “citizen scientists” to snap photos of the ... Read More

Solar eclipse science experiments: NASA needs amateur scientists to gather info. How to help

It's also a great chance to advance human knowledge. And you can help ... Ashlee Autore, a NASA Langley data scientist, said in a release. “The power of citizen science is that people make ... Read More

Citizen Science Month and #OneMillionActsOfScience Needs You!

The last full week of Citizen Science Month is jam packed! It’s the week of Earth Day, Arbor Day, Noise Awareness Day, and the City Nature Challenge! Find a project and report your Act of Science here ... Read More