As NASA and its partners prepare to send astronauts back to the Moon, we must address the potential dangers caused by space weather, which can damage spacecraft and cause physical harm to unprotected ...

Type your name and see it spelled out in stunning Landsat satellite imagery. Explore Earth from space, letter by letter, with NASA and USGS Landsat images.

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Have you ever wondered how many stars you can see at night? From a perfect dark sky location, free from any light pollution, a person with excellent vision may observe a few thousand stars in the sky ...

Lighter colors represent higher elevation in this image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 mission. The oval indicates the landing ellipse, where the rover will be ...

Cassini’s T-126 is the 12tth and final close flyby of Titan marks the end of Cassini’s Ring-Grazing Orbits and sets the stage for the mission’s Grand Finale.

It takes a lot of work to make space missions happen. Hundreds or even thousands of experts work as a team to put together the spacecraft. Then it has to be ...

Distance The physical distance from Earth to the astronomical object. Distances within our solar system are usually measured in Astronomical Units (AU). Distances between stars are usually measured in ...

This video zooms into the core of a rich star-birth region called the Lagoon Nebula, located in the constellation Sagittarius in the direction of our Milky Way galaxy’s central bulge. The Hubble Space ...

Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) stand next to Europa Clipper's wide-angle camera (WAC) — one of the two camera’s in the ...