Two holes are left in the Martian surface after NASA’s Perseverance rover used a specialized drill bit to collect the mission’s first samples of regolith…
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Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
This artist’s illustration shows the location and size of a hypothetical cloud of dust surrounding our solar system. Credit: NASA, ESA, Andi James (STScI) Exhaust…
Illustration of NASA’s Orion spacecraft reentering Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA As NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency…
A Barren Boundary: Despite a largely successful harvest overall, some crops along the front line went unharvested. A satellite-based analysis indicates that nearly 27 million…
[embedded content]On flight day 20, Orion captured the crescent Earth in the distance as the spacecraft regained communications with the Deep Space Network following its…
On December 5, 2022, Orion completed the return powered flyby burn, committing the spacecraft to a December 11 splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA…
Wetlands of Adair Bay captured in astronaut photograph from the International Space Station on August 1, 2022. The estuary system marks the transition between the…
The Moon occasionally moves in front of all of the Solar System’s planets, including Mars. Credit: Sergio Scauso What are some skywatching highlights in December…
NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) images of Hawaii on October 29 and November 28, 2022. During Mauna Loa’s first eruption…
NASA spacewalker Josh Cassada rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm carrying the roll-out solar array to its installation site on the Starboard-4 truss segment. Credit: NASA…
Images of Saturn’s moon Titan, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument November 4, 2022. Left: Image using F212N, a 2.12-micron filter sensitive…
Orion’s solar arrays split the difference between Earth and the Moon on flight day 14 of the Artemis I mission in this image captured by…
On flight day 16, a camera mounted on one of Orion’s solar arrays snapped this image of our Moon as the spacecraft prepared to exit…
Artist’s impression of Orion over the Moon. Orion was designed to send astronauts further into space than ever before, beyond the Moon to asteroids and…
Illustration of BioSentinel’s spacecraft flying past the Moon. Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency…
Simulated black hole jets spin and sweep past in this animation. The jets, which contain particles moving near the speed of light, appear in orange,…
The spectral data from SOFIA overlain atop this image of Venus from NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft is what the researchers observed in their study, showing…
On flight day 9, the inside of Orion shows the display of the Callisto payload. Callisto is Lockheed Martin’s technology demonstration in collaboration with Amazon…