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Phobos passing across Sun as seen by Perseverance rover on Mars

Googly-eyed potato eclipse filmed by NASA’s Perseverance rover

a man wearing a NASA hat aboard the International Space Station squirts ketchup into his mouth. the ketchup comes out in one long stream

See (and never unsee) a NASA astronaut eating ketchup in space

By Laura Baisas

A technician inspects a prototype LISA telescope.

NASA unveils model of LISA, a satellite array for studying ripples in space-time

Sierra Space TCPS machine

ISS astronauts to test trash compactor that’s basically WALL-E

a close-up of the planet jupiter's great red spot. it is a swirling red storm on the planet's more white and orange surface

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot jiggles like JELL-O

By Laura Baisas

mars the planet

NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s

By Joel S. Levine / The Conversation

Voyager 2 diagram with equipment labeled

NASA shut off a Voyager 2 tool to save power

Lightning strike at night

NASA’s U-2 spy plane found gamma rays in 90% of lightning storms

JUICE image of Earth's radiation belt

NASA captured the clearest ever images of Earth’s radiation belt

Satellite image of Hurricane Helene

What Hurricane Helene looks like from space

A black and white image shows a silvery sheet of material toward the bottom

NASA releases first photo of 860-square-foot solar sail in orbit

Starliner docked with ISS with Earth in background

NASA can explain Starliner’s spooky, pulsing sounds

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams with two astronauts aboard ISS

Starliner astronauts are watering plants and fixing urine pumps on ISS

Close up of pills in blister packs

How will astronauts handle expired drugs on Mars?

NASA VIPER Rover

NASA’s VIPER rover won’t be going to the moon after all

Martian landscape simulation room in CHAPEA Mars Dune Alpha

What it was like to spend a year in NASA’s Mars base simulation

Screenshot from music video for Missy Elliott's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"

NASA beamed Missy Elliott’s ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)’ to her favorite planet

Silhouette of moon

There really are moon lava tunnels—and humans may live in them one day

Starship test launch in 2021

SpaceX’s Starship may mess up the lunar surface

NASA's Orion Capsule is drawn into the well deck of the USS Portland during recovery operations after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, on December 11, 2022. - Orion was launched November 16 on the Artemis rocket for a 25-day mission to the Moon. The main goal of this mission was to test Orion's heat shield -- for the day when it is humans and not test mannequins riding inside. (Photo by Mario Tama / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MARIO TAMA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

How NASA and SpaceX get spacecraft safely back on Earth

By Marcos Fernandez Tous / The Conversation

International Space Station orbiting above Earth

NASA is paying SpaceX to destroy the International Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson is pictured in her spacesuit prior to the start of a science and maintenance spacewalk that ended early after her suit experienced a water leak in the service and cooling umbilical unit.

NASA is having one rough summer

Concept art of asteroid entering planet's atmosphere

What would we do if an asteroid slammed Earth on July 12, 2038?

Artist concept art of Voyager 1

Voyager 1 defies the odds yet again and is back online

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while maneuvering a roll-out solar array toward the International Space Station's truss structure 257 miles above the Pacific Ocean. In the rear, is the SpaceX Dragon crew vehicle that docked to the Harmony module's forward port on March 3 carrying four SpaceX Crew-6 crew members.

‘Check his pulse one more time’: NASA accidentally airs ISS emergency test

Astronaut conducting spacewalk outside ISS

NASA astronauts will scrape microorganisms off ISS during upcoming spacewalk

Starship fourth liftoff

SpaceX’s fourth Starship launches

Boeing Starliner launch

Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission for NASA

Image of June 3, 2024, solar flare

Watch a wild ‘failed eruption’ solar flare

Panels A, B, and C each show stereographic image pairs of the asteroid Dinkinesh taken by the L’LORRI Instrument aboard NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft. The images were taken in the minutes around closest approach on November 1, 2023. The yellow and rose dots indicate the trough and ridge features, respectively. These images have been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast. Panel D shows a side view of Dinkinesh and its satellite Selam taken a few minutes after closest approach.

The odd moon orbiting a ‘Dinky’ asteroid is actually two moons fused together

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of ESA’s ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin.

Europe’s first Mars rover will use nuclear-powered heaters

NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel

NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel

By Briley Lewis

Concept art of lunar base with floating train path alongside astronauts

Wild NASA proposal envisions magnetic hover trains on the moon

a small asteroid orbits around a larger one

‘Lucy’s baby’ asteroid is only about 2 to 3 million years old

By Laura Baisas

Artist rendering of exoplanet WASP-43b

JWST measures ‘Hot Jupiter,’ a distant exoplanet hot enough to forge iron

Image of sun highlighting four solar events

Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA

ACS3 solar sail concept art above Earth

NASA will unfurl a 860-square-foot solar sail from within a microwave-sized cube

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Voyager 1 traveling through interstellar space–or the space between stars.

Greetings, Earth! NASA can understand Voyager 1 again

By Laura Baisas

an artist's illustration of a lava lake on one of jupiter's moons. it is primarily black as the magma has cooled with orange lava encircling it

Smooth lava lake on Jupiter’s moon sizzles in NASA aerial animations

By Laura Baisas

a galaxy that looks like an hourglass pinched at the center with a shining protostar

Plunge into an immersive IMAX movie featuring the James Webb Space Telescope

By Laura Baisas

NASA wants to measure moonquakes with laser-powered fiber optic cables

Astronaut Andreas Mogensen aboard the ISS

Let this astronaut show you around the International Space Station

Toyota concept art for lunar RV

Japan and NASA plan a historic lunar RV roadtrip together

NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicle concept art

It’s on! Three finalists will design a lunar rover for Artemis

Buzz Aldrin on the moon next to American flag.

NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon

the ring of the sun during a solar eclipse

How to photograph solar eclipse: The only guide you need

By Stan Horaczek

2017 Total Solar Eclipse timelapse

How to photograph the eclipse, according to NASA

Timelapse of total solar eclipse showcasing Baily's beads

NASA needs your smartphone during April’s solar eclipse

A circular asteroid with a smaller rock orbiting it. The asteroid Dimorphos was captured by NASA’s DART mission just two seconds before the spacecraft struck its surface on September 26, 2022.

NASA’s asteroid blaster turned a space rock into an ‘oblong watermelon’

By Laura Baisas

NASA astronaut Scott Tingle is pictured during a 2018 spacewalk to swap out a degraded robotic hand on the Canadarm2.

‘Space headaches’ could be a real pain for astronauts

By Laura Baisas

NASA astronaut training

NASA’s astronaut applications are open again. Do you have what it takes?

M74 aka the Phantom Galaxy shown in a combined optical/mid-infrared image, featuring data from both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. It is one of the celestial objects featured

Listen to three breathtaking NASA images

By Laura Baisas

Odie the lunar lander is not dead yet

Odie the lunar lander is not dead yet

Tiger walking across snow

NASA and Google Earth Engine team up with researchers to help save tigers

Colorful cricket on green leaf

NASA wants you to record crickets during April’s solar eclipse

A combination of a Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1987A and the compact argon source. The faint blue source in the center is the emission from the compact source detected with the James Webb Space Telescope. Outside this is the stellar debris, which contains most of the mass. The inner bright “string of pearls” is the gas from the outer layers of the star that was expelled about 20,000 years before the final explosion. The fast debris is now colliding with the ring, explaining the bright spots. Outside of the inner ring are two outer rings, presumably produced by the same process as forming the inner ring. The bright stars to the left and right of the inner ring are unrelated to the supernova.

JWST detects evidence of a neutron star in fiery supernova remains

By Laura Baisas

Odysseus passes over the near side of the moon. The photo was taken while the spacecraft was orbiting the moon.

‘Odie’ makes space history with successful moon landing

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of NASA Mars habitat

How to apply for NASA’s next Mars habitat simulation

A graphic rendering of an asteroid in space, with a close up on where water molecules are on the surface.

Water molecules detected on the surface of an asteroid in space for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Surgeon using spaceMIRA remote surgery tool on ISS

First remote, zero-gravity surgery performed on the ISS from Earth (on rubber)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida a

‘Odie’ is en route for its potentially historic moon landing

By Laura Baisas

Phobos creating partial solar eclipse on Mars, image taken by Perseverance rover

A Martian solar eclipse turns the sun into a giant googly eye

Galaxy AM 1054-325 has been distorted into an S-shape from a normal pancake-like spiral shape by the gravitational pull of a neighboring galaxy, seen in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. A consequence of this is that newborn clusters of stars form along a stretched-out tidal tail for thousands of light-years, resembling a string of pearls. They form when knots of gas gravitationally collapse to create about one million newborn stars per cluster.

NASA’s Hubble space telescope reveals a galactic ‘string of pearls’

By Laura Baisas

NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Fire and smoke are below the spacecraft as it lifts off from the launch pad.

NASA’s PACE satellite takes off to monitor phytoplankton—from space

By Laura Baisas