Animation of the Perseverance Rover driving on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech Collecting samples as it explores an ancient and now-dry river channel is but one goal the…
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A volunteer from NASA’s Artemis Extravehicular Activity training group moves a 30-pound object through a boulder field while in a spacesuit connected to NASA’s Active…
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking in this illustration. Credit: NASA/SpaceX On Tuesday morning, NASAEstablished in 1958, the National…
This artist’s conception shows how double ridges on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may form over shallow, refreezing water pockets within the ice…
Over a 17-year period, an international team of astronomers monitored Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures. They discovered that Neptune’s global temperatures dropped unexpectedly, followed by a dramatic…
The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour carrying four Axiom Mission 1 astronauts approaches the International Space Station on April 9, 2022, less than a day after launching…
Spacewalkers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev configure new robotic arm components on the Nauka multiupurpose laboratory module. Credit: NASA Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev…
This artist’s conception of the Mira star system depicts Mira A (right), a highly evolved red giant star, and Mira B (left), a white dwarf.…
Hubble Space Telescope image of two merging galaxies in the VV689 system — nicknamed the Angel Wing. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Keel, Acknowledgement: J.…
New Horizons mission scientists have determined that cryovolcanic activity most likely created unique structures on Pluto not yet seen anywhere else in the solar system.…
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disc encircling the 20-million-year-old…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts participate in a training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. From left to right: NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 mission…
The fifth Moon landing mission began with the April 16, 1972 launch of Apollo 16. The giant SaturnSaturn is the sixth planet from the sun…
Artist’s illustration of a neutron star binary. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey Double neutron starA neutron star is…
NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity illustration. Credit: NASA/JPL Ingenuity continued its journey towards the river delta at the beginning of this month with Flight 24. This…
Orbiting 500 km above the earth, the Fermi Large Area Telescope collects gamma rays from millisecond pulsars. As these high-energy photons travel across the Milky…
The SpaceX Crew-4 Dragon arrives at Launch Pad 39A hangar. Credit: SpaceX SpaceXCommonly known as SpaceX, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is a private American aerospace…
Mars Perseverance Sol 374 – Front Right Hazard Avoidance Camera: The turret, halfway through sampling the second core from the rock Sid this March. During…
Testing our mega Moon rocket and ground systems … Preparing the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting…
This image of a crater near 37 degrees south latitude on Mars was captured in the middle of winter in Mars’ Southern Hemisphere. Patchy sparkling…