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New science from Jupiter
When the Juno spacecraft recently flew over the poles of Jupiter, researchers were astonished. This 5-minute video from NASA explores the latest discoveries.
May 7, 2018
Hear the Milky Way Blues
Listen to the sound of our galaxy rotating. The variation of musical pitches portrays the motion of gas as it orbits around the center of our galaxy.
May 6, 2018
Insight Mars is on its way
The Insight Mars lander is due to set down on Mars' surface in November, 2018.
May 5, 2018
Wall-E and Eva are going to Mars, too
Riding along with the InSight Mars mission, the 2 briefcase-sized CubeSats are designed to demonstrate nearly real-time communications between worlds.
May 4, 2018
Does Stephen Hawking’s final theory tame the multiverse?
"I have never been a fan of the multiverse. If the scale of different universes in the multiverse is large or infinite the theory can’t be tested."
May 2, 2018
Gaia sees LMC stars as galactic fingerprint
It resembles a fingerprint, doesn't it? But it's really a galaxy, rotating. This image is from ESA's Gaia space observatory. It shows the rotation of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
May 2, 2018
Watch SpaceX Dragon depart from ISS May 2
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, May 2. NASA TV will provide live coverage of Dragon's departure starting at 10 a.m. EDT (14:00 UTC).
May 1, 2018
New Shepard has successful 8th test flight
Blue Origin's suborbital rocket New Shepard made its 8th test flight on April 29, going up from the company's launch site in West Texas. Watch mission highlights here.
April 30, 2018
Take a virtual tour of 6 exoplanets
The virtual exoplanet tour has a cool 360-degree visual display. Since launching in late 2017, it's had over a million YouTube views. Check it out here.
April 29, 2018
Unseen siblings for Milky Way’s supermassive black hole?
Our Milky Way galaxy is known to have a supermassive black hole at its heart. Could more supermassive black holes be lurking unseen at our galaxy's outskirts?
April 27, 2018
