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In one of the biggest surprises of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged,…
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A NASA-sponsored team has developed electronics that can operate reliably in the harsh radiation and temperature conditions found on distant…
New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September…
Results from the solar-powered spacecraft provide a new measurement of the thickness of the ice shell encasing the Jovian moon’s ocean. Data…
Trained on data from NASA’s exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced algorithm to validate new…
In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific…
A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is launching to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and their stars.
A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a vast water…
Editor’s note, Dec. 11, 2025: This story was updated to include an additional partner’s research and related release. Astronomers have…
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system…
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in…
This article was updated to include the full range of dates from the SOHO image. Lee esta historia en español…
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…
Employee Spotlight: Edmonia Caldwell Edmonia Caldwell despised sitting through her thermodynamics courses, but both Xavier University and Georgia Institute of…
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…