As NASA continues preparations for the summer 2020 Florida launch of its Mars 2020 rover,…
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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.
Mapping the bonds and vibrational modes of molecules containing sulfur isotopes is helping to shed…
Fifty years ago today, during their second moonwalk, Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. and Alan Bean…
Earth’s climate is changing, and the study of oceans is vital to understanding the effects…
The International Space Station is a stepping stone for NASA’s Artemis program that will land…
Each second, 1.5 million tons of solar material shoot off of the Sun and out…
A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels…
A little robotic explorer will be rolling into Antarctica this month to perform a gymnastic…
Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA recently demonstrated an Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) thruster at full…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the most…
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first close-up images of Europa, one of…
Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars…
Starting around approximately 1200 – 1808 UTC (7:00 am – 1:38 pm ET) November 11,…
An international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites. The new discovery adds…
“They’re out there,” goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be…
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions,…
The first map showing the global geology of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has been completed…
For this Picture of the Week, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eye…