The Moon serves as a background for the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
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Illustration of an Artemis astronaut on the Moon. Credit: NASA Upgrade work continues outside the space station … An updated strategy for landing Artemis astronauts…
This animation shows the radar pulse from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite’s altimeter bouncing off the sea surface in order to measure the height of…
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan preparing to collect samples 73001 and 73002 on the Moon in 1972. Gene Cernan collected the sample from a landslip…
This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary,…
Pictured from left, are the Soyuz MS-19 crew ship and the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module with the Prichal docking module attached. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in…
The SPHEREx mission will have some similarities with the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory…
Electrons in Earth’s radiation belts, show as yellow and red cross-sections, typically spiral back and forth, bouncing between the Poles. However, disturbances to the belts…
In this illustration, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking. Credit: NASA/SpaceX NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Like a time capsule that was sealed for posterity, one of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo…
This image visualizes wintertime sea ice change in the Arctic using data provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water “SHIZUKU”…
Astronauts Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer are pictured replacing an external high-definition camera during a 6-hour 54-minute spacewalk today. Credit: NASA TV Expedition 66 Flight…
The sunrise casts a golden glow on the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
As NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National…
In this illustration, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Perseverance is adding a pop of…
NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere during the spacecraft’s 39th close flyby of the planet on January 12, 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS,…
Spacewalkers Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer will exit the station for a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
March 11, 2022. (Click image for high-resolution, wide-field view.) Two eye-catching cloud types—flower-shaped actinoform and spiraling von Kármán vortices—popped up off the coast of Chile…
What do planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, look like? A variety of possibilities are shown in this illustration. Scientists discovered the first exoplanets…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman After meeting the major milestone of aligning the telescope to NIRCam,…