Spacecraft from NASA and other organizations captured rich imagery of our solar system in 2024, including views of Mars, Io, ...

See the year’s most striking images from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, NASA’s Mars rover and the best sky watching on offer ...

From record launch rates, to new astronaut missions and science - 2025 promises to be a year like no other in space exploration.

Indeed, NASA ... Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorer spacecraft, or ESCAPADE-- an unmanned mission to study how the solar wind interacts with Mars' magnetic environment. The latter project ...

The mission is part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA, which is Japan's NASA counterpart) "Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration" project ... year-long jet of plasma ...

Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia are using advanced simulations to study electron behavior in electric propulsion ...

Scientists have made groundbreaking progress in understanding the dazzling auroras that light up the night sky. Using NASA’s KiNET-X experiment, researchers simulated auroral conditions by releasing ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory has captured vast plasma jets from a supermassive ... In previous studies, NASA has spotted a series of 'jet knots' within Centaurus A's massive plumes.

THE plasma jet is a convenient tool for the production of high temperatures (8,000°–15,000° K). It has been shown, in these laboratories, that the thermal decomposition of coal in a pure argon ...

It's called Centaurus A, and huge jets of plasma shooting from its central supermassive ... The full Chandra image, with C4 circled in yellow. (NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Bogensberger et al.) ...