On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection ...

In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the first to make studying the galactic bulge a part of its core science ...

The TESS mission scans a wide swath of the sky, called a sector, for about a month at a time using its four cameras. These ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of a rock nicknamed “Atacama” on May 6, ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on March 11, 2026, the 1,797th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, during the rover’s deepest push west ...

The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized, transparent, and repeatable process for assessing the quality of ...

A aircraft completed a series of flights on April 29 over Central California to contribute new data to improve the accuracy ...

The International Gemini Observatory consists of twin 8.1-meter diameter optical/infrared telescopes located on two of the best observing sites on the planet. From their locations on Maunakea in Hawai ...

Light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light zips through interstellar space at 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second and 5.88 trillion ...

Amendment 58: F.17 Research Initiation Awards Final Text and Due Date The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Research Initiation Awards (RIA) program aims to broaden the base of institutions ...

Eye Safety During a Total Solar Eclipse Except during the brief total phase of a total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely blocks the Sun’s bright face, it is not safe to look directly at the Sun ...