NASA/Nichole Ayers The aurora australis arcs above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above in between Australia and
NASA/Nichole Ayers The aurora australis arcs above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above in between Australia and
6 Min Read NASA’s TRACERS Studies Explosive Process in Earth’s Magnetic Shield High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful
Astronomers have, for the first time, caught the moment when planets began to form around a distant star. Using the ALMA telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope,
Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a planetary system that could one day resemble the solar system. The discovery offers scientists a proxy to study how our home planetary system
An artist’s concept of the Starlab commercial space station. Starlab As NASA continues its transition toward a commercial low Earth orbit marketplace, an agency-supported commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system’s lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get their name from their orbits. These dwarf planets orbit the sun
Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has just been discovered. Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have
View of Earth as seen by ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station’s “window to the world.”
3 min read NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers Doing NASA Science brings many rewards. But can taking part in NASA citizen science help your
The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions require




