“We didn’t know what it was at first,” Greene said in a statement released by NASA’s Earth Observatory this week, along with ...
A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...
On Saturday (March 29), SpaceX posted photos on X of the Fram2 mission's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule rolling out ...
To kick off Randolph College’s annual science festival "SciFest," NASA planetary protection engineer Moogega Cooper urged attendees to persevere, stay curious and question rules in their own lives.
The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...
The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...
But Curiosity wasn't the only one with a geological mystery. At the same time, roughly 2,300 miles away on the other side of ...
We usually think of NASA scientists as working specifically on projects to be launched into space, but they also carry out ...
The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.
To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it. A spacecraft now under construction at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in may be our best hope. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a ...
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...