NASA is preparing to launch a mission designed to provide a unique, inside-out view of the ring current. Called STORIE (Storm ...

As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids ...

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not ...

On April 6, 2026, shortly before Earth slid behind the Moon from the perspective of Orion, and the spacecraft lost radio ...

This year's Perseids will be slightly impacted by a 53% waxing Moon, but the Moon will set right as the Perseids begin to peak! This means that if you are in an area free from light pollution and ...

These meteors are fast, racing into Earth’s atmosphere at about 40 miles per second. And because they’re moving so quickly, they can leave behind glowing trails that linger for a moment after the ...

NASA celebrates Hubble’s 36th anniversary with a new image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region it first captured in 1997. The telescope leveraged almost its full operational lifetime to show ...

The May 2024 solar storm created two new temporary belts of high-energy particles surrounding Earth. The findings are particularly important for spacecraft launching into geostationary orbits, which ...

Images of the trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) Pluto [left] and Arrokoth [right], the primary flyby targets of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 and 2019. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – seen as the bright flash on the far right – on May 13, 2025. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that ...

Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum ...

NASA Heliophysics Spacecraft Witness Comet’s Demise On April 4, comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) plunged toward the Sun — flying about twice as far from our star as the Moon is from Earth. Comet watchers held ...