The most luminous galaxy ever discovered is cannibalizing not one, not two, but at least three smaller galaxies, which could explain its extreme brightness. | Continue reading
After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. | Continue reading
On Oct. 3, NASA's Mars 2020 mission management and members of its Entry, Descent, and Landing team met at JPL in Pasadena, California, and determined that the strengthened ASPIRE parachute had passed its tests and was ready for its Martian debut. | Continue reading
Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun's surface on Oct. 29, 2018, at about 1:04 p.m. EDT, as calculated by the Parker Solar Probe team. | Continue reading
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running aerial survey of polar ice, carried a flight over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on Oct. 16, 2018. During the flight, IceBridge senior support scientist Jeremy Harbeck spotted two rectangular icebergs floating among sea ice just off o … | Continue reading
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Astronomers will use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to measure a black hole’s mass. | Continue reading
A mixed-reality software that allows scientists and engineers to virtually walk on Mars has received NASA's 2018 Software of the Year Award. | Continue reading
The cause of Chandra's safe mode on October 10 has now been understood and the Operations team has successfully returned the spacecraft to its normal pointing mode. | Continue reading
The cause of the safe mode transition is currently under investigation. | Continue reading
NASA continues to work toward resuming science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope after the spacecraft entered safe mode due to a failed gyroscope (gyro) on Friday, Oct. 5. | Continue reading
Winners of the Project Mars International Film and Art Competition have been selected from more than 570 entries received that visualize NASA’s work to expand the frontier of deep space exploration. | Continue reading
Scientists studying what amounts to a computer-simulated 'pulsar in a box' are uncovering particle behaviors that may help explain how neutron stars emit gamma-ray and radio pulses with ultraprecise timing. | Continue reading
An instrument onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy detected atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time since the last observation 40 years ago. | Continue reading
This book is a chronicle of our attempts to send these robotic travelers beyond Earth orbit, to the Moon, to other planets and their moons, to the Sun, to comets, to minor planets, to dwarf planets, and ultimately beyond the solar system. | Continue reading
This 3-D visualization of Hurricane Maria reveals the processes inside the 2017 storm that would fuel its intensification from a category 1 to 5 storm within 24 hours. | Continue reading
In December of 2017, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-1, in which the president directed NASA “to lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to brin … | Continue reading
NASA’s Kepler team has received data showing that the spacecraft’s ability to point precisely has degraded. In order to preserve high-value science data collected during its latest observation campaign, the Kepler team has placed the spacecraft in a stable, no-fuel-use sleep mode … | Continue reading
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected dust storms on Saturn's largest moon, making Titan the third Solar System body where such storms have been observed. | Continue reading
The explosion of the Chelyabinsk meteor in February 2013 injected hundreds of tons of dust high in the atmosphere. NASA satellite and model data show the dust snaking around the entire northern hemisphere in just four days. | Continue reading
An unusual infrared light emission from a nearby neutron star detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could indicate new features never before seen. | Continue reading
This essay first appeared in 2003 in NASA's Astrobiology magazine. | Continue reading
On Sept. 9, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory saw two lunar transits over the course of just six hours. | Continue reading
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and SpaceX are finalizing plans for launch day operations as they prepare for the company’s first flight test with astronauts on board. | Continue reading
NASA’s Lunar Outpost will Extend Human Presence in Deep Space | Continue reading
Clearing skies allow Opportunity rover engineers to plan for the future. | Continue reading
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter. | Continue reading
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This dramatic image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the planetary nebula NGC 3918. | Continue reading
Astronomers have just assembled one of the most comprehensive portraits yet of the universe’s evolutionary history. | Continue reading
This summer, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than any mission before it. Cutting-edge technology and engineering will help it beat the heat. | Continue reading
The first test flights for new spacecraft designed by commercial companies in collaboration with NASA to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station from the United States are known as Demo-1 for SpaceX and Orbital Flight Test for Boeing. | Continue reading
Transforming the inhospitable Martian environment into a place astronauts could explore without life support is not possible without technology well beyond today’s capabilities because Mars does not retain enough accessible carbon dioxide that could be put back into the atmospher … | Continue reading
We celebrate NASA’s first 60 years of achievement | Continue reading
The International Space Station is officially home to the coolest experiment in space: NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory is now producing clouds of ultracold atoms. | Continue reading
Interning at NASA puts students at the center of innovation and discovery. For two students at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, this meant having the incredible opportunity to not only leave their mark on one of NASA’s most unique testing facilities, bu … | Continue reading
NASA's collaboration with The University of Texas at Dallas has been completed to convert 19,000 hours of Apollo-era audio recordings to current digital formats. | Continue reading
NASA and partner Bradley University of Peoria, Illinois, have selected the top five teams to share a $100,000 prize in the latest stage of the agency’s 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge competition. | Continue reading
In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 — and it seems to be smiling. | Continue reading
To celebrate NASA’s 60th anniversary, the National Symphony Orchestra presented a performance of Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” accompanied by a video of the Moon. | Continue reading
Using two powerful space telescopes astronomers made the most precise measurements to date of the universe’s expansion rate. | Continue reading
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Scientists have always wondered how Uranus got tilted so much that it spins on its side, and now research on the planet’s early formation gives us new insight. | Continue reading
NASA brings you images, videos and features from the unique perspective of America's space agency. Get updates on missions, watch NASA TV, read blogs, view the latest discoveries, and more. | Continue reading