Artemis II is the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface. Credit:…
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The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its…
NASA successfully conducted a 10-minute hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine on March 21, surpassing the required power levels and duration for SLS missions,…
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Astronomers think most occur when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear…
This illustration shows what the hot rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b could look like based on this work. TRAPPIST-1 b, the innermost of seven known planets…
Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and…
A still image of the full disk of the Moon as it appeared on February 17, 2022. The region of the SOFIA observations is shown…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth with a sample it collected…
This view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during the mission’s close flyby on September 29,…
This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds identified by the James Webb Space Telescope in the atmosphere of exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The planet is about…
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.…
Artist’s impression of the Moon-forming event. Numerous moon formation theories have been suggested by researchers. Nonetheless, the most widely-accepted explanation, backed by the available evidence,…
An artist’s concept of the completed design of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER. VIPER will get a close-up view of the location…
Illustration of SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. NASA’s…
Rendering of Firefly’s Blue Ghost transfer vehicle deploying the European Space Agency’s Lunar Pathfinder satellite to lunar orbit. ESA’s Lunar Pathfinder is designed and developed…
Artemis II is the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface. Credit:…
Credit: Axiom Space When astronauts return to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years as part of NASAEstablished in 1958, the National…
Artist’s Impression of Dragonfly on Titan’s surface. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected two pairs of supermassive black holes on collision courses in dwarf galaxies, which is the first evidence of such…
SpaceX’s 27th commercial resupply mission docked to the Harmony module’s space-facing port at 7:31 a.m. EDT today as the station was flying 261 miles over…