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Wolf Cukier, a junior at Scarsdale High School in New York, got a two-month internship with NASA during his junior year. So he went to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.  His first task was to investigate fluctuations in star brightness acquired by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, as part of […]

In a groundbreaking announcement today, NASA has revealed the first-ever images of Venus’ surface taken using visible light. This momentous achievement marks a significant milestone in humanity’s quest to explore and understand our neighboring planet. Venus, often referred to as Earth’s “sister planet,” has long captivated scientists and space enthusiasts alike with its enigmatic atmosphere

Interim NASA chief Sean Duffy will announce the ambitious goal this week, according to Politico. NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the moon. For several years now, the agency has been working to get a 40-kilowatt fission system ready for launch to the moon by the early 2030s. But interim NASA chief Sean Duffy is about

“If we’re going to engage in the race to the moon and the race to Mars, we have to get our act together.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA’s interim administrator says his call for the United States to put a nuclear reactor

From one perspective, the Sun is a benevolent orb of plasma and its warmth makes Earth habitable and has kept if habitable for billions of years, allowing complex things like human beings to evolve. From another perspective, it’s a malevolent orb that sends deadly UV radiation our way, and sometimes erupts and hurls massive blobs

As global warming continues to melt Earth’s glaciers, sea level rise hits all new heights. However, in 2024 a different mechanism caused most of this water volume increase. “The rise we saw in 2024 was higher than we expected,” says NASA oceanographer Josh Willis. “Every year is a little bit different, but what’s clear is that the ocean

You don’t have to know a whole lot about science to know that black holes normally suck things in, not spew things out. But NASA detected something mighty bizarre at the supermassive black hole Markarian 335. Two of NASA’s space telescopes, including the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), amazingly observed a black hole’s corona “launched”

The U.S. Postal Service issued a Priority Mail stamp Jan. 21, 2025, highlighting an image of the spiral galaxy NGC 628 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Greg Breeding, an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, designed the stamp with an image from NASA, ESA, CSA, the Space Telescope Science Institute, researchers Janice Lee