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 ...

Though the universe may seem a strange place, it is not a distant one. Wherever you are right now, outer space is only 62 miles (100 kilometers) away. Day or night, whether you’re indoors or outdoors, ...

Nicky Notes To the NASA Science Community – <br>As the nation’s leader in Earth and space science, NASA Science operates within the broader context of the federal government and its priorities. As ...

Most lunar exosphere science relies on data collected at a distance, but humans have also set up experiments on the ground. When the crews of Apollo 12, 14, and 15 lifted off from the Moon, they left ...

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, ...

Long before our Sun and Earth ever existed, a Jupiter-sized planet formed around a sun-like star. Now, 13 billion years later, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has precisely measured the mass of this ...

Basics of Spaceflight: Glossary Use your browser's "FIND" capability to locate a word right away on this page.You should also have a good English dictionary at hand. Additional resources are the ...

The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 4:25 a.m. ET on Wednesday, May 14. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares ...

The planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like Earth's terra firma. The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the ...

For the first time, researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. All the frozen water ...