A new study using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has seen a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper decline over the past 40 million years. Andromeda, a spiral galaxy comparable in size to our Milky Way, is close enough to be seen with the naked
Concluding an eight-month scientific mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew made their safe, parachute-assisted landing at 5:27 am CDT (3:27 pm Kazakhstan time), southeast of Dzhezkazgan, after leaving the space station at 2:03 am, aboard
From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a photo July 18, 2026, while holding a cake to celebrate their recent arrival at the International Space Station. The trio arrived at the space station on July 14, 2026, after launch from the Baikonur
NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday that they recently agreed to conduct second-stage hot-fire tests for the company’s New Glenn rocket at the B-2 test bed at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The addendum to a reimbursable Space Act Agreement signed earlier this month highlights NASA’s commitment to working together
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a spiral galaxy battling titanic forces appearing on galactic scales in space. This is NGC 4654, an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). It is classified as “intermediate” because its overall shape falls between spiral galaxies that have a bar in their
Historically, Castle Valley in central Utah has been a coal center, with active mining operations on the slopes of the Wasatch Plateau to the west since the late 19th century. A different energy development came to the region in June 2026, when a large solar and battery storage plant came online in the sunny valley