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The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for…
The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official…
The IAU (International Astronomical Union), a global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson,…
Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the Solar System. Near its poles, these shimmering lights offer a…
Rocky material that impacted Mars lies scattered in giant lumps throughout the planet’s mantle, offering clues about Mars’ interior and…
Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of…
Asteroid Bennu, sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020, is a mixture of dust that formed in our solar system,…
On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space.…
The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source…
Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward. On…
The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode…
An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that…
The graininess and horizontal lines seen in this JunoCam image show evidence that the camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission suffered…
Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances…
Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the…
Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center What sparked your interest in video production, and what drew you to NASA? …
When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain.…
Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on…
Headed for Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft did some sightseeing, using a flyby of Mars to calibrate its infrared imaging…
JunoCam captured this view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the…
New data from the agency’s Jovian orbiter sheds light on the fierce winds and cyclones of the gas giant’s northern…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close…
The spacecraft was making its 71st close approach to Jupiter when it unexpectedly entered into a precautionary status. Data received…
The six-wheeled explorer recently captured several Red Planet mini-twisters spinning on the rim of Jezero Crater. A Martian dust devil…
Although NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a…
NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These asteroids are remnants of…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between…
The orbiter bound for Jupiter’s moon Europa will investigate whether the moon is habitable, but it first will get the…
That’s a great question. And it’s a question that NASA will seek to answer with the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Europa…
The spacecraft’s star trackers help engineers orient the orbiter throughout its long journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Three months…
With help from AI, scientists discovered a fresh crater made by an impact that shook material as deep as the…
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by…
Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the…
NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on science results from NASA’s…
Known as flow formations, these channels could be etched on bodies that would seem inhospitable to liquid because they are…
New images taken from space show how dust on and around InSight is changing over time — information that can…
From sending crew members to the International Space Station to launching a spacecraft to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to determine…
A new study points to why, and how, Io became the most volcanic body in the solar system. Scientists with…
Scientists find that cometary dust affects interpretation of spacecraft measurements, reopening the case for comets like 67P as potential sources…
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA’s New Frontiers…
Headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just three months…
One year ago today, the future of space communications arrived at Earth as a beam of light from a NASA…
Matthew Kowalewski describes himself as “curious about too many things,” but that curiosity comes in handy when engineering instrumentation scheduled…
NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA’s…
As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for…
NASA Science Activation’s Solar System Treks collaborated with Astrobiology SciComm Guild SMEs to create enhancements to the Europa Trek portal.
NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an…
Find details about the launch sequences for the orbiter, which is targeting an Oct. 14 liftoff on its mission to…
With a spacecraft launching soon, the mission will try to answer the question of whether there are ingredients suitable for…
Nota del editor: Este comunicado se actualizó el 12 de octubre de 2024 para reflejar una nueva fecha de lanzamiento…