When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar ...

This free NASA history eBook is a chronicle of humanity's attempts to send robotic travelers beyond Earth orbit—to the Moon, to other planets and their moons, to the Sun, to comets, to minor planets, ...

Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of ...

Breaking Barriers As a woman in science, Nancy Grace Roman was met with skepticism or rejection at nearly every turn. “I was told from the beginning that women could not be scientists,” she often ...

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 ...

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, ...

The star-forming nebula W51 is one of the largest "star factories" in the Milky Way galaxy. "Star factories" like this one can operate for millions of years. The cavernous red region on the right side ...

This is a plot showing the number of ROSES program elements using the DAPR process, organized by ROSES year. The number of DAPR program elements in each ROSES appendix is indicated by the numbers ...

In a landmark study, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor.

These Vo yager mission infographics put solar system distances in perspective. This artist's concept puts solar system distances -- and the travels of NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft -- in perspective.