NASA’s Artemis missions, aimed at extending lunar exploration, face new challenges with larger landers that pose greater operational risks. These missions must navigate complex lunar…
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Supercomputer simulations suggest that Saturn’s rings might have originated from a massive collision between two icy moons during the age of dinosaurs. Collaborative research by…
A still image of the full disk of the Moon as it appeared on February 17, 2022. The region of the SOFIA observations is shown…
An illustration of Mons Mouton, a mesa-like lunar mountain that towers above the landscape carved by craters near the Moon’s South Pole. Credits: NASA/Science Visualization…
Animation of Astrobees on the space station. Credit: NASA Three years ago, a pair of robots were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) to…
An illustration of a Gemini spacecraft in flight, showing a cutaway view. Credit: NASA The Gemini III mission carried two remarkable firsts: an astronaut’s smuggled…
U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, left, and Joe Sacco, NASA’s acting director of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC), tour the largest…
Webb Space Telescope Provides New Tools To Search for the Building Blocks of Life on Distant Planets
Webb Space Telescope Provides New Tools To Search for the Building Blocks of Life on Distant Planets
This artist’s conception shows the fully unfolded James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator How NASA in Silicon Valley Will…
VIPER’s wheel maneuvers over a rock during endurance testing for the rover’s wheels. To make the test as realistic as possible, the team used rare…
The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft taxies past Hangar One after landing at Moffett Federal Airfield. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Don Richey Crews transported the heat…
A mosaic image of the south pole of the Moon. Henson crater is located just south of de Gerlache crater, seen here to the left…
A self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity rover taken on Sol 2082 (June 15, 2018). A Martian dust storm has reduced sunlight and visibility at the rover’s…
Noctilucent or “night shining” clouds forming in the mesosphere as seen from the International Space Station on May 29, 2016. These clouds form between 47…
Sub-mesoscale ocean dynamics, like eddies and small currents, are responsible for the swirling pattern of these phytoplankton blooms (shown in green and light blue) in…
Illustration of the galaxy called CQ4479. The extremely active black hole at the galaxy’s center is consuming material so fast that the material is glowing…
Astronaut Scott Kelly is working with the Microgravity Sciences Glovebox during a Rodent Research session with Bone Densitometer. Credit: NASA Living in space isn’t easy.…
This illustration depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Since astronomers confirmed…
Pluto as seen from data taken by New Horizon’s flyby in 2015 of the dwarf planet, with a close-up view of the Pigafetta Montes mountain…
Illustration of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the surface of the Moon. Credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh…
Graphic depiction of Myco-architecture off planet: growing surface structures at destination. Credit: L. Rothschild Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets…