Hubble captures a luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light.

Are you an educator, high school student, community college student, undergraduate student, graduate student, or someone in the early stage of their career looking to do research focused on NASA Earth ...

Leo is a prominent sight for stargazers in April. Its famous sickle, punctuated by the bright star Regulus, draws many a beginning stargazer’s eyes, inviting ...

On April 6, 2026, the crew of Artemis II reached a milestone, traveling farther than any humans in recorded history, as they orbited the far side of the Moon, ...

Download this year’s Earth Day Poster and see your name in Landsat. With NASA’s “Your Name in Landsat” online interactive, users can type in their name, then view and export the graphic of that name ...

The animation above shows the change in global surface temperatures. The period used to calculate the average for comparison is 1951 – 1980. Dark blue shows areas cooler than average. Dark red shows ...

Key Takeaway: Ice sheets, which store large amounts of fresh water on land, are melting as Earth’s air and ocean temperatures warm. Antarctica is losing ice mass at an average rate of about 135 ...

The Moon’s atmosphere contains about one million billion (10 15) times fewer molecules per cubic centimeter than Earth’s does. This is primarily because Earth is more massive (so it has a stronger ...

Part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity, was the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars when it launched in 2011. Curiosity set out to answer the question: Did Mars ever ...

Different colors of light have different wavelengths and energy. (Human eyes detect differences in wavelength and energy as differences in color.) Light toward the red end of the spectrum has longer ...

Kelsey Young, Trevor Graff, and Angela Garcia—are pioneering a new era of mission operations by integrating advanced lunar science directly into Mission Control. Their work will shape how future ...

One Scenario that Led to the Star Betelgeuse's 'Great Dimming' Event This four-panel graphic illustrates how the southern region of the rapidly evolving, bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse may have ...