3D animation showing the Hubble Space Telescope over the Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen) Far above rain clouds, light pollution, and…
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Illustration of the Lucy spacecraft near a large asteroid with Jupiter visible in the distant background. Credit: Southwest Research Institute Gathering near Las Vegas recently,…
[embedded content] This is the beginning of the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab With Webb’s first major structural deployments completed and the observatory’s Deployable Tower Assembly extended, we are…
Webb’s orbit is around L2—a point of gravitational balance on the other side of Earth from the Sun—but it does not reside exactly at the…
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…
[embedded content] Although the chance of an asteroid impacting Earth is small, even a relatively small asteroid of about 500 feet (about 150 meters) across…
Artist’s impression of the TIMED spacecraft in orbit, scanning Earth. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Launched in 2001, NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and…
Ozone 101 is the first in a series of explainer videos outlining the fundamentals of popular Earth science topics. Let’s back up to the basics…
Illustration of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 (STPSat-6) with the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload communicating data over infrared links.…
LCRD will relay data between the International Space Station and the ground. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6891. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Hajian (University of Waterloo), H. Bond (Pennsylvania State University), and B. Balick (University of…
North of Norway over the Norwegian and Greenland Seas, a magnetic bubble known as the cusp surrounds Earth and dips inward. Some air in the…
A close up of a solar eruption, including a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, and a solar energetic particle event. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space…
On the left is a view of Europa taken on March 2, 1979, by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Next is a color image of Europa…
Credit: NASA, ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing; Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large…
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Bally (University of Colorado at Boulder); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust…
Hubble captured a bright jet from a newly forming star in this image of the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977). Credit: NASA, ESA, and J.…
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Tan (Chalmers University of Technology); Processing; Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) The Prawn Nebula is a massive stellar nursery…
On October 13, 2021, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter slewed to allow LRO Camera (LROC) to acquire this magnificent view revealing Saturn and its rings. Credit:…