New data from NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility and the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea help…
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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.
A team of international astronomers, aided by volunteer scientists using the Planethunters.org website, discovered a…
New data from WISE answers several questions about Jovian Trojans, asteroids that orbit the sun…
A powered exoskeleton might help astronauts accomplish superhuman tasks in orbit. NASA’s new X1 robotic…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of Hen 3-1475, a planetary nebula in the…
The combined effort of NASA’s Swift satellite, the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton observatory, and several…
Using Curiosity’s arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument and the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam)…
This Hubble image shows the globular cluster Messier 69, also known as NGC 6637, which…
NASA’s Swift satellite detected high-energy X-rays a few degrees from the center of our galaxy,…
NASA scientists are preparing Curiosity to take its first scoop of soil for analysis, which…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have greatly improved the cosmic distance ladder used to…
650 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, the Helix nebula is putting on a…
First observed by the British astronomer William Herschel on January 14, 1778, and now seen…
While examining two outcrops, called “Hottah” and “Link,” NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence that a…
This new full-color XDF image offers an improved portrait of the deepest-ever view of the…
The Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided evidence that our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in…
Located roughly 70 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Coma Berenices, spiral galaxy…
Vesta, the second most massive asteroid in the Solar System, after the dwarf planet Ceres,…