Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

More than 30,000 scientists gathered in Washington, D.C. during the second week of December – many to show off the work of NASA’s science volunteers! The American Geophysical Union held its annual ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. A prominent bar of stars stretches across the center ...

NASA-supported scientists have suggested an updated framework for the role of ferns in environmental recovery from disaster. Instead of competing with other organisms, ferns may act as facilitators ...

Orientale Basin and its multiple rings formed about 3.8 billion years ago, at the end of the conjectured Late Heavy Bombardment. None of the rings are the initial crater itself, which would fall ...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be “tipped over,” rotating in an unexpected direction relative to the galaxy ...

Craters are the mark the passing universe leaves on the Moon, a cosmic guestbook. They tell us the history not only of the Moon, but of our solar system. Earth's Moon is covered in craters. Humanity's ...

The South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA) is the Moon’s largest impact feature, named because it spans the territory from the small Aitken crater to the Moon’s south pole, or nearly a quarter of the Moon's ...

Congratulations on finding today's 3.8 digital souvenir sticker. Thank you for joining Parker Solar Probe's journey as it gets closer to the Sun than ever before. Let the world know you’ve solved the ...

The Moon’s craters were among the first things Galileo observed upon turning his telescope on the skies, informing the world that the lunar surface was “full of hollows and protuberances, just like ...

The goals of A.52 Advanced Component Technology (ACT) are to research, develop, and demonstrate component- and subsystem-level technology development that: Enable new or greatly enhance remote sensing ...

Around 4 billion years ago, our young inner solar system underwent a cataclysmic pummeling by asteroids that carved huge basins into Earth’s Moon. That’s the theory of the Late Heavy Bombardment, ...