This composite image of the Manatee Nebula captures the jet emanating from SS 433, a black hole devouring material embedded in the supernova remnant that…
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NASA’s Artemis II mission is advancing with the final preparations of the SLS rocket at Kennedy Space Center. The Orion stage adapter, a key component…
Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, haunted skies over the island of Kvaløya, near Tromsø Norway on December 13, 2009. This 30-second long exposure records their…
Technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have completed a major portion of a weld confidence article for the advanced upper stage of…
Solar eclipses come in three varieties: total, annular, and partial. Their appearance depends on the relative positions and distances of the Earth, Moon, and Sun.…
NASA’s New Horizons mission will continue, emphasizing heliophysics data collection beginning in 2025. Potential future flybys of the Kuiper Belt are also under consideration. Institutions…
This illustration shows NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) in powered flight. The MAV will carry tubes containing Martian rock and soil samples into orbit around…
The annular total solar eclipse on October 14, 2023, will span from the U.S. to Brazil. For best views, be in the path of annularity…
The March 21 hot fire test of the RS-25 certification engine marked the fourth in a series aimed at validating new engine production by Aerojet…
This animation shows a subset of the Large Area Telescope gamma-ray records now available for more than 1,500 objects in a new, continually updated repository.…
This artist’s rendering shows an aerial view of the liftoff of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. This Block 1 crew configuration of the rocket…
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test on November 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at…
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will launch with Orion atop it from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s modernized spaceport at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…
RS-25 rocket engine. Engine 2057 is slated for the Artemis III, the third flight of NASA’s Space Launch System. Credit: NASA On Earth, many cars…
Composite images of the Cas A supernova remnant, a structure resulting from the explosion of a star in the Cassiopeia constellation. The blues represent data…
GOES 17 Geostationary Lightning Mapper detection of the August 13, 2022, fireball over northern Utah. Credit: NOAA On Saturday morning, a brilliant meteor flew through…
NASA engineers successfully completed a subscale solid rocket motor test on June 1, 2022, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Space…
Michael Zanetti, a NASA planetary scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, hikes the Cinder cone in Potrillo volcanic field in New…
Under Artemis, NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the…
Illustration of NASA’s NEA Scout with the solar sail deployed as it flies by its asteroid destination. Credit: NASA NEA Scout will visit an asteroid…