Perseverance View of the Delta in Jezero Crater: From its landing site, “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” NASA’s Perseverance rover can see a remnant of a…
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Credit: Frank Michaux Teams with Exploration Ground Systems successfully lifted the Orion Spacecraft for the Artemis I mission inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAEstablished…
October 18, 2021 Volcanoes emit sulfur dioxide — a pungent gas that reacts with oxygen and moisture in the air to produce a haze called…
If they exist, alien lifeforms probably won’t look anything like this. Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered, but that doesn’t mean it…
Illustration of NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration communicating with the International Space Station over laser links. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASAEstablished in 1958,…
A full Moon rises over Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park in Santa Clarita, California, on June 24, 2021. Credit: NASA/Preston Dyches The Next Full Moon…
October 12, 1987 October 9, 2021 As temperatures rise on the Tibetan Plateau, lakes are growing larger and deeper. Glaciologists often call the Tibetan Plateau and its…
September 8, 2021 Spencer Gulf in South Australia hosts the world’s largest cuttlefish mass spawning event. Each winter from May to August, thousands of Australian giant…
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a soft gamma-ray survey telescope (0.2-5 MeV) designed to probe the origins of Galactic positrons, uncover the sites…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA Two microphones aboard the six-wheeled spacecraft add a new dimension to…
Is there weather on MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron oxide is prevalent…
The Soyuz MS-18 crew ship with three Russian crew mates is pictured just moments from landing in the steppe of Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA TV Russian…
Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 86, a peculiar pair of interacting galaxies which lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.…
The Ingenuity helicopter made history on April 19, 2021, with the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. How do engineers talk…
The CME associated with the October 9, 2021, M1 flare arrived as anticipated early on October 12, UTC-day. The CME shock front arrived at the…
Believe it or not, observing the Moon is something you can do no matter the weather, time of day, or location! We interpret “observe” very…
October 10, 2021 The pandemic has disrupted global supply chains and markets in ways that have led to backlogs of cargo ships at key ports.…
International Observe the Moon Night is an annual world-wide public engagement program that encourages observation, appreciation, and understanding of our Moon and its connection to…
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen in this 2 minute and 30 second exposure photograph as it…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft deploying its solar arrays. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Where will you be and what will you be up to in…