NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection of a planetary magnetic that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation. | Continue reading
NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69. | Continue reading
James Webb Space Telescope: The Epic Exploration Journey Already in the Making | Continue reading
NASA's official insignia is a familiar sight, but what does it mean? From the wing of the space shuttle to the top of the NASA homepage, the agency's official insignia is probably its best-known symbol. | Continue reading
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, causing the brittle surface crust to break as the Moon shrinks, forming faults where one section of crust is pushed up over a neighboring part. A new analysis gives the first evidence that these faults are still active and likely produ … | Continue reading
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe's earliest galaxies were brighter than expected. | Continue reading
Human-generated greenhouse gases and atmospheric particles were affecting global drought risk as far back as the early 20th century, according to a study | Continue reading
NASA and Blue Origin Help Classrooms and Researchers Reach Space | Continue reading
NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) investigators have determined the technical root cause for the Taurus XL launch failures of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory missions in 2009 and 2011, respectively: faulty materials provided by aluminum manufacturer, Sapa Prof … | Continue reading
The universe is getting bigger every second — but how fast? Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they have crossed an important threshold in revealing a discrepancy between the two key techniques for measuring the universe's expansion rate. | Continue reading
Some galaxies, nebulas and star clusters are visible with backyard telescopes, binoculars or the unaided eye. Explore a new Hubble gallery of such objects from the popular Messier catalog and learn how you can view these objects yourself! | Continue reading
NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely “marsquake.” | Continue reading
During the spacecraft's last look at Titan, scientists gathered data that reveal what fills the moon's northern lakes — and how deep they are. | Continue reading
A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers. | Continue reading
Streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor, according to researchers using data from NASA’s LADEE spacecraft. The findings will help scientists understand the history of lunar water. | Continue reading
Results from NASA’s landmark Twins Study, which took place from 2015-2016, were published Thursday in Science. The integrated paper — encompassing work from 10 research teams — reveals some interesting, surprising and reassuring data about how one human body adapted to — and reco … | Continue reading
NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a techniqu … | Continue reading
50 Years Ago: NASA Names Apollo 12 Crew | Continue reading
Smart spacesuits and solar surfing may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but they are just two of the technology concepts NASA has selected for further research as part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. | Continue reading
tempA black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). | Continue reading
The president directed NASA to land American astronauts on the Moon by 2024, and the agency has committed to accelerating humanity’s return to the Moon by all means necessary. | Continue reading
NASA has successfully tested an advanced air-to-air photographic technology in flight, capturing the first-ever images of the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic aircraft in flight. | Continue reading
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. | Continue reading
The 2019 Arctic sea ice maximum extent ties with 2007's for seventh lowest in the satellite record, continuing the long-term decline of the Arctic sea ice pack. | Continue reading
Astronomers have found a runaway pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour — so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and the Moon in just 6 minutes. | Continue reading
How 11 Deaf Men Shaped NASA's Human Spaceflight Program | Continue reading
As the next major step to return astronauts to the Moon under Space Policy Directive-1, NASA announced plans on Dec. 13 (FBO Link) to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems for astronauts to explore the lunar surface. | Continue reading
This image taken on Sept. 25, 2018 by NASA’s Kepler space telescope is the final record of Kepler’s full field of view before the depletion of fuel permanently ended the work of this historic planet-hunting spacecraft. | Continue reading
In 1995, the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (NASA/SP-6105) was initially published to bring the fundamental concepts and techniques of systems engineering to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) personnel in a way that recognized the nature of NASA systems … | Continue reading
A NASA-led study has found a giant, growing cavern under Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier — just one of multiple mechanisms that are rapidly melting this enormous mass of ice. | Continue reading
Engineers at JPL have begun transmitting a new set of commands to Opportunity in an attempt to compel the Mars rover to contact Earth. | Continue reading
Launching soon for the International Space Station will be a technology module called Raven. Raven is an important step in NASA's development of "autopilot" capabilities in space. | Continue reading
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has helped scientists get a better idea of the size of 'Oumuamua — the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system. | Continue reading
The largest piece of structural test hardware for America’s new deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, was loaded into Test Stand 4693 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama Jan. 14, 2019. | Continue reading
New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006 and conducted a six-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015, culminating with Pluto closest approach on July 14, 2015. | Continue reading
A 'real-time data translator' machine converted a Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of paper. Too anxious to wait for the official processed image, employees from the Voyager Telecommunications Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, attached these … | Continue reading
Look closely, and you can make out the lander's solar panels. | Continue reading
NASA welcomed a new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, deputy administrator, Jim Morhard, and chief financial officer, Jeff DeWit, in 2018. Their focus is on firmly establishing the groundwork to send Americans back to the Moon sustainably, with plans to use the agency’s lunar exper … | Continue reading
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study. | Continue reading
A winged spacecraft will soon take off with four NASA-supported technology experiments onboard. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo will separate from the WhiteKnightTwo twin-fuselage carrier aircraft and continue its rocket-powered test flight. | Continue reading
Recently analyzed data from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has revealed water locked inside the clays that make up its scientific target, the asteroid Bennu. | Continue reading
For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun. | Continue reading
The Arctic sea ice cover has been on a steep decline for the past decades. But new NASA research has found that increases in seasonal winter Arctic ice growth may have helped prevent an even more rapid rate of decline. | Continue reading
NASA invites media to its headquarters in Washington for the announcement of new Moon partnerships with American companies at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 29. | 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
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On Nov. 26, NASA's InSight spacecraft will blaze through the Martian atmosphere and set a lander gently on the surface in less time than it takes to cook a hard-boiled egg. | Continue reading