When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar ...

Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of ...

This free NASA history eBook is a chronicle of humanity's attempts to send robotic travelers beyond Earth orbit—to the Moon, to other planets and their moons, to the Sun, to comets, to minor planets, ...

On May 10, 2024, the first G5 or “severe” geomagnetic storm in over two decades hit Earth. The event did not cause any catastrophic damages, but it did produce surprising effects on Earth. The storm, ...

Surprisingly, this one million-solar-mass black hole doesn’t reside exactly in the center of the host galaxy, where supermassive black holes are typically found, and actively gobble up surrounding ...

In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made history, revealing a breathtaking view of a region now nicknamed the Cosmic Cliffs. This glittering landscape, captured in incredible detail, is ...

In a recent study, NASA-supported researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they were a multi-cellular organism. The organisms in the study are ...

2. Earth's “Time Capsule” on the Moon The face of the Moon preserves nearly every crater in its history. Earth, with its surface constantly churned and reshaped by plate tectonics, erosion and other ...

Watch how astronomers used data from NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) to study a mysterious cosmic phenomenon called a quasi-periodic eruption, or QPE. NASA’s Goddard Space ...

As the world looks for sustainable solutions, a system tapping into NASA satellite data for water management has passed a critical test. Called OpenET, the system uses an ensemble of six ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope downloadable e-book, Black Holes: Into the Vortex is the sixth edition in the Hubble Focus series, which explores cosmic topics that have been transformed by Hubble’s ...

Some of the most dramatic events in the universe occur when certain stars die — and explode catastrophically in the process. Such explosions, known as supernovae, mainly occur in a couple of ways. In ...