
Bushfires located in southern Western Australia triggered smoke alerts and generated aerosols that were detected by NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite.

Seen here is the Pegaus barge at Conrad Shipyard near Morgan City, Louisiana. NASA astronaut Steve Bowen and NASA representatives…

On Feb. 5. 1971, the Apollo 14 crew landed on the moon. The crew members were Captain Alan Bartlett Shepard,…

NASA Aeronautics is taking off on a journey to jumpstart a new era in aviation. We’re focusing our research in…

Fires in Australia

A festive portrait of our Milky Way galaxy shows a mishmash of gas, charged particles and several types of dust.

A new, dynamic portrait of our Milky Way galaxy shows a frenzy of gas, charged particles and dust.

Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this new all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission…

Matter lying between Earth and the edge of the observable universe is shown in this all-sky map from Planck, a…

Mercury astronauts John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. Grissom and Alan B. Shepard Jr. standing by the Redstone rocket in…