As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids ...

On April 6, 2026, shortly before Earth slid behind the Moon from the perspective of Orion, and the spacecraft lost radio ...

Download this year’s Earth Day Poster and see your name in Landsat. With NASA’s “Your Name in Landsat” online interactive, users can type in their name, then view and export the graphic of that name ...

NASA celebrates Hubble’s 36th anniversary with a new image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region it first captured in 1997. The telescope leveraged almost its full operational lifetime to show ...

The planets orbit the Sun in a counterclockwise direction as viewed from above the Sun's north pole, and the planets' orbits all are aligned to what astronomers call the ecliptic plane. Who Was ...

The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth — a so-called super-Earth. Data from a worldwide array of telescopes, including ESO’s planet-hunting HARPS ...

This image of the Neptune system, captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), reveals stunning views of the planet’s rings, which have not been seen with this clarity in more than three decades.

The satellite images used in this interactive are part of Landsat's extensive record, spanning more than 50 years. The Landsat series of Earth-observing satellites are jointly managed by NASA and the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.

As it sped away from Venus, NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this seemingly peaceful view of a planet the size of Earth, wrapped in a dense, global cloud layer. But, contrary to its serene ...

Description This animation of NASA’s Perseverance was created with the Caspian visualization tool using data acquired during an 807-foot (246-meter) drive on… ...

The Moon’s atmosphere contains about one million billion (10 15) times fewer molecules per cubic centimeter than Earth’s does. This is primarily because Earth is more massive (so it has a stronger ...