Asteroid Bennu’s most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71 ft (21.7 m) from…
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NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is the United States government agency responsible for civilian space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research. Founded in 1958, NASA leads groundbreaking missions that study Earth, the Moon, Mars, and beyond—deploying spacecraft, satellites, and telescopes such as the Hubble and James Webb to explore the cosmos. The agency pioneers human spaceflight through programs like Artemis, which aims to return astronauts to the Moon and pave the way for Mars exploration. NASA’s research also advances climate science, planetary geology, astrophysics, and cutting-edge technologies that benefit life on Earth and deepen humanity’s understanding of the universe.
Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines,…
A recent study supported in part by the NASA Astrobiology Program provides new data on…
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, studies the universe with infrared light. That’s a…
https://youtu.be/j46CGlwGXks This video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some…
Fifteen months after the successful landing of the NASA InSight mission on Mars, first scientific…
NASA chose seventh-grader from Virginia as winner of the agency’s “Name the Rover” essay contest.…
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 3887, seen here as viewed by the Wide Field Camera…
NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. Yesterday, the…
To go along with the stunning 1.8-billion-pixel image, a new video offers a sweeping view…
About every four years, NASA accepts applications for a new class of astronauts. We in…
For the first time in more than four years, NASA began accepting applications Monday for…
[Editor’s Note: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was officially renamed the Nancy Grace…
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made…
This image of an archetypal spiral galaxy was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.…
A batch of new papers summarizes the lander’s findings above and below the surface of…
On February 6, 2020, weather stations recorded the hottest temperature on record for Antarctica. Thermometers…
This Hubble image shows two galaxies locked in a fateful embrace. Caldwell 60 (NGC 4038)…