June 2, 2020 Get set for strawberry moon: NASA’s top tips for June skywatchers The next full moon, known as the strawberry moon, will light up the sky this week. Here are NASA’s top tips for June skywatchers.
June 1, 2020 Mysterious interstellar 'Oumuamua could be made of something almost unheard of in science The mystery surrounding the interstellar object 'Oumumua seemingly gets weirder by the day.
May 29, 2020 Mysterious 'active' object in Jupiter's orbit isn't so mysterious at all After originally believing the "continuously active" object in Jupiter's orbit was the first-known "Trojan asteroid" like it, scientists have issued a correction and it's just a regular comet.
May 29, 2020 Mysterious 'Fermi Bubbles' may be the result of black hole indigestion 6 million years ago The center of the Milky Way is a puzzle of invisible, interconnected blobs. There are swooping tendrils of energy visible only in radio wavelengths, hourglass-shaped scars of X-ray light and — towering over it all — the mysterious Fermi Bubbles.
May 27, 2020 'Ring of fire' galaxy discovered 11B light-years from Earth Researchers have discovered a galaxy roughly the size of our Milky Way that's being described as a “cosmic ring of fire.”
May 26, 2020 Mysterious 'continuously active' object discovered in Jupiter's orbit A mysterious 'continuously active' object known as a "Trojan asteroid" has been discovered in Jupiter's orbit, making it the first known object like it.
May 21, 2020 Massive, rotating disk galaxy from the early universe discovered A massive, rotating disk galaxy from the early universe has been discovered by an international team of astronomers.
May 13, 2020 Amateur astronomer used NASA satellite data to discover new comet An amateur astronomer has used data from NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite to discover a new comet that will be visible in late May and early June.
May 7, 2020 Black hole, 1,000 light-years from Earth, discovered Researchers have discovered a black hole 1,000 light-years from Earth, the closest one known so far.
May 5, 2020 Was Mars once 'blue'? Meteorite discovery sheds light on red planet’s early history Scientists have discovered 4-billion-year-old organic molecules containing nitrogen in a Martian meteorite, shedding new light on the red planet’s early history.