This image based on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows the face of the Moon we see from Earth. The more we learn…
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(Click image for full view.) NASA’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument imaged areas burned by the Bighorn Fire north of Tucson,…
Exploration Ground System teams are processing the Artemis I booster segments and preparing to stack them with forward and aft assemblies at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
This illustration shows how planet KELT-9 b sees its host star. Over the course of a single orbit, the planet twice experiences cycles of heating…
Galaxy NGC 2775 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team. Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla). The…
The Deep Space Atomic Clock may change the way spacecraft navigate in space. Descendants of the technology demonstration could be a key component of a…
ESA, NASA and JAXA have worked closely together to combine a wealth of data from Earth-observing satellites from the three space agencies to monitor the…
June 24, 2020 Moving at eight kilometers (five miles) per second, the International Space Station (ISS) circles our planet every 90 minutes. In a 24-hour…
As NASA prepares for our return to the Moon, innumerable activities to equip, shelter, and otherwise support future astronauts are underway. These astronauts will be…
In this artist’s concept, a SPARROW robot uses steam propulsion to hop away from its lander home base to explore an icy moon’s surface. Credit:…
The 4,000th comet discovered by ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s SOHO observatory is seen here in an image from the spacecraft alongside SOHO’s 3,999th…
This artist’s concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes that may…
June 22, 2020 The 2019-20 winter in Europe was the warmest on record, with little snow. The spring was also drier and warmer than normal,…
An image of NICER on the exterior of the space station with one of the station’s solar panels in the background. Credit: NASA For centuries,…
Artist’s impression of the Rosalind Franklin Rover on Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab NASA has stepped closer to allowing remote onboard computers to direct the search…
The CEERS Survey researchers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the Extended Groth Strip in infrared light. Their observations employ three of…
[embedded content] Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you can see in the animation above, a Uranian sunset…
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bighorn Fire on June 22,…
This composite image is made from 151 individual SDO frames. They span the full ten-year run of the time lapse and a few notable events…
March 19 – June 20, 2020 Eastern Siberia is famous for some of the coldest wintertime temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere. But in 2020, it…