A 22-year-old NASA observatory is slowly falling towards Earth and scientists are trying to save it

For more than two decades, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has acted as one of astronomy's fastest cosmic first ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA’s Bennu samples also held a gum-like material and dust forged in exploding stars

Scientists working with material collected from asteroid Bennu have found a sticky, gum-like organic substance never before ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See a Diamond Planet, an Exploding Star and a Black Hole Up Close in a New Immersive Virtual Reality Experience

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can ...
Scientific American

NASA data reveals weird x-ray changes in the exploded ruins of dead stars

This sparkling galaxy is home to a set of supernova remnants that showed variable brightnesses over 14 years of data ...
Space on MSN

NASA X-ray spacecraft discovers supernova wreckage at the heart of the Milky Way

NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected ...