This illustration, updated in December 2020, depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. With an internal global ocean twice the size of Earth’s oceans combined, Jupiter’s moon…
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Artist’s impression of the internal structure of Mars. Credit: © IPGP / David Ducros Using information obtained from around a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars…
Ribbons of steam and smoke trail space shuttle Atlantis as it nears touchdown on the Shuttle Landing Facility’s Runway 15 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
Perseverance Scouts First Sampling Location: A light-colored “paver stone” like the ones seen in this mosaic will be the likely target for first sampling by…
NASA’s Juno Mission observed pulsating electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in Jupiter’s dawn magnetosphere that periodically expel energetic heavy ions into the atmosphere, producing stunning X-ray…
The robotic arm on NASA’s Perseverance rover reached out to examine rocks in an area on Mars nicknamed the “Cratered Floor Fractured Rough” area in…
[embedded content] On July 20, 2001, two NASA astronauts took the first “steps” out of the International Space Station’s Quest airlock, marking the start of…
Galaxy cluster MACSJ0138.0-2155 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Newman, M. Akhshik, K. Whitaker The center of this image from…
Credit: KBR, Brooks in San Antonio, Texas Safety is paramount for NASA’s quiet supersonic flight team who are making great strides in preparing for future flight testing…
Animation of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the surface of the Moon. Credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter As any seasoned road-tripper knows, to…
A speckle-skinned whale shark swimming through the ocean. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with footage from Alexpunker via Motion Array and Tom Cook. While…
Testing teams can be seen carefully working a critical part of the observatory known as the deployable tower assembly that helps Webb maintain its sub-zero…
This processed image of Io by New Horizons shows the 290-kilometer-high (180-mile-high) plume of the volcano Tvashtar near Io’s north pole. Also visible is the…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Mars 2020 rover studying rocks with its robotic arm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Panelists will discuss the rover’s recently started science campaign and…
Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser) NASA has successfully switched to backup hardware on the Hubble Space Telescope, including powering on the backup payload computer, on July…
While one science instrument mapped the dome of high pressure that settled over the southwestern U.S. in early July, another captured ground surface temperatures. Just…
Engineers prepare NEA Scout for integration and shipping at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Credit: NASA NASA Solar Sail Asteroid Mission Readies…
NASA has identified the possible cause of the payload computer problem that suspended Hubble Space Telescope science operations on June 13. The telescope itself and…
The purple hues in this image show X-ray emissions from Jupiter’s auroras, detected by NASA’s Chandra Space Telescope in 2007. They are overlaid on an…
Created at NASA’s JPL, the open-source flight software called F Prime isn’t just powering humanity’s first interplanetary helicopter; it’s also powering inspiration at multiple universities.…