Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA recently demonstrated an Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) thruster at full…
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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.
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…
[Editor’s Note: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was officially renamed the Nancy Grace…
As any geologist worth his or her salt will tell you, there are rocks, and…
Researchers supported in part by the NASA Astrobiology Program have discovered a ring of material…
Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry…
A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude…
The pair of strange, luminescent creatures at play in this image are actually galaxies —…
Scientists with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover have discovered what may be one of the best…
In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt…