This Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 6000 has a glowing yellow center and glittering blue outskirts, colors that reflect the galaxies stars.

F.9 The Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) aims to incubate citizen science projects as they are being conceived or during critical transitions, ...

The world standard of mass is the kilogram, whose definition is based on the mass of a metal cylinder kept in France. Previously, the standard was based upon the mass of one cubic centimeter of water ...

This artist's conception shows a young, hypothetical planet around a cool star. A soupy mix of potentially life-forming chemicals can be seen pooling around the base of the jagged rocks. Observations ...

This map shows the path of the 2017 total solar eclipse, crossing from Oregon to South Carolina, and the 2024 total solar eclipse, crossing from Mexico into Texas, up to Maine, and exiting over Canada ...

Each of Webb’s four instruments is like a Swiss army knife of more specialized components, with multiple ways of observing (observing modes). Although some instruments are more suitable than others ...

The story of oceans is the story of life. Life as we know it requires three ingredients: energy, organic molecules, and liquid water. Our search for life beyond Earth is, in part, a search for planets ...

A new, improved portrait of Hubble's deepest-ever view of the universe, called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, looks far away and back in time to reveal faint galaxies at one ten-billionth the ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million miles per hour as it traverses to the edge of interstellar space bathing ...

NGC 3147 is a spiral galaxy 130 million light-years away from Earth. Hubble’s clear view of the cosmos enables it to capture details like the clusters of young blue stars, pinkish nebulae and lanes of ...

If we pack more gunpowder into the cannon, the next time it's fired, the cannonball goes faster and farther away from the mountain, meanwhile falling to Earth at the same rate as it did before. The ...

Small cyclical variations in the shape of Earth's orbit, its wobble and the angle its axis is tilted play key roles in influencing Earth's climate over timespans of tens of thousands to hundreds of ...