The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to influence its evolution. The ...

After a four-decade run, the massive, waterlogged berg is leaking meltwater and on the verge of disintegrating.

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and ...

This Hubble image captures a jet of gas from a forming star. The bright pink and green patches are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig-Haro (HH) objects.

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has achieved its target orbit, positioning the spacecraft to capture the first repeated observations of the ...

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of ...

NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) reached its destination at Lagrange point 1, or L1, approximately 1 million miles from ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun ...

Award: The Sylvia A. Earle Award for Exploration Excellence, previously known as the Citation of Merit, is an annual award given by the Explorers Club to an ...

F.19 Collaborative Opportunities for Mentorship, Partnership and Academic Success in Science (COMPASS) funds collaborations between NASA Centers and academic ...

This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 6,000 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. When you select a planet’s name, see ...

Send Your Name to Mars is not currently open for reservations. We will reopen reservations closer to a future launch date. If you have already signed up to send your name to Mars on NASA’s next flight ...