The NASA Science Activation program’s Place-Based Learning to Advance Connections, Education, and Stewardship (PLACES) ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy, NGC 4694. Most galaxies fall into one of two basic types.

The NASA Planetary Exploration Science Technology Office (PESTO) invites its awardees and members of the public to ...

Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis of ...

Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own ...

There’s more to thunderclouds than rain and lightning. Thunderclouds can produce intense bursts of gamma rays.

In August 2024, the NASA Science Activation program’s Planetary Resources and Content Heroes (ReaCH) project held a ...

Setting a fire in space sounds like a bad idea, scientists have been safely creating controlled flames in space for decades.

If you’re thinking of a galaxy, the image in your head is probably the Andromeda Galaxy! Read more about our closest galactic ...

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: ...

Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver, a spaceflight first. As the spacecraft zipped past our Moon and home planet, ...

A decade ago, on Sept. 21, 2014, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, ...