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Artist's illustration of 2024 PT5.

Earth welcomes temporary new moon

Oct 2, 2024 Scientists say the traveling companion will only stick around for a few weeks.
This image provided by NASA shows an enhanced color view of Pluto’s big moon Charon captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, July 14, 2015.

NASA's Webb telescope detects traces of carbon dioxide on the surface of Pluto's largest moon

Oct 1, 2024 The latest detection is key to studying how Charon and other icy objects in the Kuiper Belt came to be.
An aerial view of Kitt Peak National Observatory. From February 2022.

Kitt Peak celebrates 60 years of public tours

Sep 23, 2024 Public telescopes reopen after COVID, fires caused closures on the mountain.
Fisherman on Venice Pier taking a photograph of the Supermoon blue blood moon with partial lunar eclipse, Venice, Florida taken on January 31, 2018.

A celestial trifecta: What to know about Tuesday’s lunar eclipse

Sep 17, 2024 Stargazers will be in for another celestial treat Tuesday night as three cosmic events will occur at the same time during the full moon.
Illustration of the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn.

Cassini orbited Saturn 20 years ago this summer

Aug 28, 2024 The robotic explorer made historic discoveries about the ringed planet and its moons.

Remembering the historic Rosetta space flight to a comet 10 years ago

Jul 26, 2024 The European-built robotic explorer orbited and landed on the chunk of ice and rock in 2014.
Images show the size difference between a supermoon (at left) and a mini-moon.

Lunar surface science literally hit-or-miss in 2024

Jul 14, 2024 But scientists expect more high profile attempts to land on the moon later this year.
The first CHAPEA mission crew members who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission pose for a photograph taken on June 25, 2024.

Volunteers who lived in a NASA-created Mars replica for over a year have emerged

Jul 7, 2024 Participants entered the 3D-printed Mars replica on June 25, 2023, as part of a NASA experiment to observe how humans would fare living on the Red Planet.
New observations of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter have revealed that the planet’s atmosphere above and around the infamous storm is surprisingly interesting and active. This graphic shows the region observed by Webb — first its location on a NIRCam image of the whole planet (left), and the region itself (right), imaged by Webb’s Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec).

New findings about Jupiter revolve around Great Red Spot

Jul 1, 2024 Data from James Webb Space Telescope adds to giant planet's mystery.
Artist's rendering of a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star.

James Webb Space Telescope looks at planet-forming process

Jun 10, 2024 The stellar observatory continues to help scientists develop theories about the universe.
Large Binocular Telescope atop Mt. Graham.

UA telescope grabs ground-breaking images of Jupiter's volcanic moon

Jun 5, 2024 The photos are the best Earth-based pictures to reveal lava flows on Io.
The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit in 1999, just after a servicing mission by astronauts.

Hubble will change how it points, but NASA says 'great science' will continue

Jun 5, 2024 Officials say they are shifting into a new way of pointing the telescope in order to work around a piece of hardware that’s become intolerably glitchy.
The creation of a lunar time zone would require international agreements.

NASA has been asked to create a time zone for the moon. Here's how it would work

Apr 15, 2024 As the world prepares for a new space race, the Biden Administration is calling on NASA to create a moon-based time standard.
A group of three watch the solar eclipse in Tucson, Ariz., on Monday, April 8, on the University of Arizona campus mall.

Sun, moon, and spectacle: Thousands flock to UA mall for solar eclipse

Apr 8, 2024 The last total solar eclipse that could be seen in the United States was in 2017.
12P/Pons–Brooks is a Halley-type periodic comet with an orbital period of 71 years. It was discovered in 1812 and later recovered during passages in 1883 and 1954. It is expected to brighten to an apparent magnitude of 4.5 (visible to the naked eye) during its upcoming passage in April 2024.

The 'devil comet' is visible in the night sky, and is sticking around for the eclipse

Mar 19, 2024 A rarely-seen comet with a reputation for colorful flare-ups is once again visible from Earth.
Astronaut Tom Stafford (left) and cosmonaut Alexey Leonov shake hands after the first docking of U.S. and Soviet spacecraft in 1975.

NASA astronaut Tom Stafford, famed for U.S.-Soviet orbital handshake, has died at 93

Mar 18, 2024 Stafford, who flew in space four times including a trip to orbit the moon and then a historic rendezvous with Soviet cosmonauts, passed away on Monday.

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