Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is the next NASA astrophysics flagship mission, to follow the James Webb Space Telescope. A NASA telescope that will
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Earth’s atmosphere extends well beyond the lunar orbit – almost twice the distance to the Moon. The outermost part of our planet’s atmosphere
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured the sharpest possible pictures of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule – the farthest object ever explored.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Curiosity rover is busy making new discoveries on Mars. The rover has been climbing Mount Sharp since 2014 and recently reached a
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists claim to have solved a longstanding mystery as to how cosmic dust, the building blocks of stars and planets, forms across the
MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers now think that Neptune’s tiniest moon, Hippocamp, was chipped off a larger moon, Proteus, by a cosmic collision billions of years ago. The moon was uncovered
MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have spent decades looking for something that sounds like it would be hard to miss: about a third of the “normal” matter in the Universe. Now,
MessageToEagle.com – Beginning today, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will provide daily weather reports for Mars, courtesy of the red planet’s newest robotic resident, InSight. “The InSight lander is close to the
MessageToEagle.com – An international team of more than 200 astronomers from 18 countries including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has published a
MessageToEagle.com – A San Diego State University astrophysicist has helped discover evidence of a gigantic remnant surrounding an exploding star—a shell of material so huge, it must have been
MessageToEagle.com – After almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the groundwork for NASA’s return to the Red Planet, NASA’s Opportunity rover mission has ended.
MessageToEagle.com – A new study suggests that must be an underground source of heat for liquid water to exist underneath the Martian polar ice cap, which is one kilometer-and-a-half thick. “We
MessageToEagle.com – The Earth’s magnetic shield booms like a drum when it is hit by strong impulses, according to new research from Queen Mary University of London. As an
MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s 4-year-old atmosphere-sniffing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission is embarking on a new campaign today to tighten its orbit around Mars. The operation will reduce
MessageToEagle.com – Using ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprints of sodium chloride (NaCl) – commonly known as salt – in the dusty disk
MessageToEagle.com – After exploring Mars’ Vera Rubin Ridge for more than a year, NASA’s Curiosity rover recently moved on. But a new 360-video lets the public visit Curiosity’s final
MessageToEagle.com – An evocative new image sequence from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule—the target of its New
MessageToEagle.com – It has long been suspected that Andromeda will one day collide with the Milky Way, completely reshaping our cosmic neighborhood. ESA’s Gaia satellite has now looked beyond
MessageToEagle.com – A new mysterious dark storm on Neptune (right) and provided a fresh look at a long-lived storm circling around the north polar region on Uranus (left) was
MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, astronomers discovered a proof of the existence of major impacts, as has apparently occurred in the Kepler 107 system. The central star, Kepler
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – After a two-year voyage, the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission arrived at Bennu, an asteroid the size of the pyramid at Giza, in
MessageToEagle.com – Our Milky Way galaxy’s disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly ‘warped’ and twisted far away from the Milky Way’s center,
MessageToEagle.com – The composition of the universe—the elements that are the building blocks for every bit of matter—is ever-changing and ever-evolving, “The universe went through some very interesting changes,
MessageToEagle.com – Based on non-science engineering data from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, researchers have measured the density of rock layers in 96-mile-wide Gale Crater. The findings show that the
MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard, only 30 million light-years away. An international team of astronomers recently used
