The star WISPIT 2 was first observed using VLT-SPHERE (Very Large Telescope - Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch), a ground-based telescope in northern Chile operated by the ...

A supermoon takes over the sky, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteor shower shines bright.

Since we all have a relationship with the Sun, it is important to learn about how it impacts our lives. NASA’s Heliophysics ...

Joe A. Adam of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presented the topic titled “ Surface Science in Microgravity – Fluid Geometry in the Ring-Sheared Drop ,” presented to a broad audience from academia ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. When you think about national park and public land astronomy programs, you might picture remote locations far from ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The NASA Community College Network (NCCN) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) have teamed up to provide an ...

Missions to the Moon and Mars pose nutritional challenges for astronauts, but volunteers from NASA’s Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups ...

NASA and SpaceX are now targeting 7:30 a.m. EDT, Wednesday Sept. 24 for the launch of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather missions on a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Except during the brief total phase of a total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely blocks the Sun’s bright face, ...

Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University Perseverance accomplished something unusual this week: abrading two dramatically different rocks within the ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as ...