Scientists at NASA Goddard recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been curated in a freezer at NASA Johnson since Apollo 17 astronauts returned them to Earth in December 1972. This research is part of the Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis Program, an effort … | Continue reading
Holoportation is a type of capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted live anywhere in real time. | Continue reading
NASA and its partners at the German Space Agency at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) will conclude the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) mission, after a successful eight years of science. SOFIA will end operations no later than Sept. 30 … | Continue reading
A fuller understanding of magnetic reconnection could enable insights into nuclear fusion and provide better predictions of particle storms from the Sun that can affect Earth-orbiting technology. Now, scientists with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, or MMS, think they’ve … | Continue reading
Eyeing some of the components that enabled the rover to get safely to the Martian surface could provide valuable insights for future missions. | Continue reading
Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA could be formed in a meteorite, this discovery demonstrates that these genetic parts … | Continue reading
First conceived in the 1940s and initially called the Large Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope took decades of planning and research before it launched on April 24, 1990. Since launch, Hubble has overcome its troubled beginnings to perform innumerable science observation … | Continue reading
The fifth Moon landing mission began with the April 16, 1972 launch of Apollo 16. The giant Saturn V rocket lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida... | Continue reading
In Volume 1, Boris Chertok describes his early years as an engineer and the mission to Germany after the end of World War II when the Soviets captured Nazi missile technology and expertise. | Continue reading
What if there was a way to make a telescope 10 times – or even 100 times – bigger than before? | Continue reading
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date. | Continue reading
As NASA makes strides to return humans to the lunar surface under Artemis, the agency announced plans Wednesday to create additional opportunities for commercial companies to develop an astronaut Moon lander. | Continue reading
One of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 has been opened under the careful direction of lunar sample processors and curators in the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. | Continue reading
The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes. | Continue reading
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop arrived at Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday in preparation for a final test before its Artemis I Moon mission. | Continue reading
Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, has passed away. He was 94. | Continue reading
Following the completion of critical mirror alignment steps, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team expects that Webb’s optical performance will be able to meet or exceed the science goals the observatory was built to achieve. | Continue reading
NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at noon EDT Wednesday, March 16, to provide an update on the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror alignment. | Continue reading
NASA thinks 50 years is the right amount of time as it begins tapping into one of the last unopened, Apollo-era lunar samples to learn more about the Moon and prepare for a return to its surface. | Continue reading
Artemis is the name of NASA's program to return astronauts to the lunar surface. We are going forward to the Moon to stay. | Continue reading
Technicians are preparing to connect two major parts of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s Artemis II core stage. On Jan. 30, technicians moved the largest part of the stage, the 130-foot liquid hydrogen tank to the vertical assembly area at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility. | Continue reading
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. | 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
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 NASA-funded ATLAS has reached a new milestone by becoming the first survey capable of searching the entire dark sky every 24 hours for near-Earth objects that could pose a future impact hazard to Earth. | Continue reading
A new gallery of images combining X-ray data from Chandra with those from other telescopes is being released. The objects range from a supernova remnant within the Milky Way to a galaxy cluster millions of light years away. | Continue reading
NASA Provides Updated Plan for International Space Station Transition that details the goals for the next decade of station operations. | Continue reading
Today, Dec. 21st, the Launch Readiness Review has been successfully completed and concluded with the authorization to perform the launch vehicle rollout and the start of the launch chronology. | Continue reading
These blueprints of the James Webb Space Telescope were created as a prop for a video series. | Continue reading
NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is leading development of the lunar drill called TRIDENT, which can core out a hole roughly three feet deep on the lunar surface. | Continue reading
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. | Continue reading
In 50 Years of Solar System Exploration, a diverse array of scholars addresses the science, technology, policy, and politics of planetary exploration. This volume offers a collection of in-depth studies of important projects, decisions, and milestones of this era. | Continue reading
NASA has returned the Hubble Space Telescope to full science operations and is now operating with all four active instruments collecting science. | Continue reading
NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates from a field of more than 12,000 applicants to represent the United States and work for humanity’s benefit in space. | Continue reading
NASA has signed agreements with three U.S. companies to develop designs of space stations and other commercial destinations in space. | Continue reading
Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. | Continue reading
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited Orlando International Airport in Florida Wednesday and met with aviation leaders to discuss implementing aircraft flight scheduling technology developed by the agency that will soon improve dependability for passengers – which is especially … | Continue reading
Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming | Continue reading
On Monday Moscow Standard Time, the International Space Station (ISS) Flight Control team was notified of indications of a satellite breakup that may create sufficient debris to pose a conjunction threat to the station. | 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 behavior of one of nature's humblest creatures is helping astronomers probe the largest structures in the universe. There is an uncanny resemblance between the networks single-cell slime molds create to seek food and the vast cobweb structure of filaments gravity builds to ti … | Continue reading
Team members of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) have filled the spacecraft with fuel, performed many of the final tests, and are running rehearsals as they approach DART’s scheduled launch on Nov. 23. | Continue reading
Landsat 9, a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that launched Sept. 27, 2021, has collected its first light images of Earth. | Continue reading
The first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defense -- the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- is moving from concept development to preliminary design phase, following NASA’s approval on June 23. | Continue reading