NASA is preparing to launch a mission designed to provide a unique, inside-out view of the ring current. Called STORIE (Storm ...

What causes a solar storm? The Sun creates a tangled mess of magnetic fields — kind of like a disheveled head of hair after a fitful night of sleep. These magnetic fields get twisted up as the Sun ...

This year's Perseids will be slightly impacted by a 53% waxing Moon, but the Moon will set right as the Perseids begin to peak! This means that if you are in an area free from light pollution and ...

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 ...

Images of the trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) Pluto [left] and Arrokoth [right], the primary flyby targets of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 and 2019. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is ...

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not ...

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 ...

The Earth’s climate is a solar powered system. Globally, over the course of the year, the Earth system—land surfaces, oceans, and atmosphere—absorbs an average of about 240 watts of solar power per ...

The May 2024 solar storm created two new temporary belts of high-energy particles surrounding Earth. The findings are particularly important for spacecraft launching into geostationary orbits, which ...

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 ...

Page One | Page Two | Page Three This image shows the first Deep Space Network (DSN) antenna installed at the Canberra, Australia site, looking down along the polar bearing, which is the axis of the ...