Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Curiosity was back at work on Monday, ...

Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 As we near the end of our Altadena drill campaign, ...

The solar wind starts its journey at the Sun. It emanates from features on the Sun such as dark and cool regions called coronal holes and active regions, which are characterized by strong magnetic ...

There’s no popping out to the hardware store for a different tool when you’re on the job in space. Engineers, working closely with astronauts as they trained for and worked on Hubble, developed ...

NASA offers a number of opportunities in the Research Opportunities for Space and Earth Science (ROSES) solicitation for support of Open Science projects. Explore the list below of those that are ...

Figure 3. These images of Typhoon Kong-rey observed on October 29, 2024, show microwave data from TROPICS-3 . This storm formed in the Central Pacific Ocean near Guam on October 24, and tracked east, ...

For 540 million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth's magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according to a newly released analysis by NASA scientists. The ...

On most nights, weather permitting, you can spot at least one bright planet in the night sky. While two or three planets are commonly visible in the hours around sunset, occasionally four or five ...

Solar images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory show different features on the Sun, including sunspots in the visible light spectrum. Filaments and prominences can be seen in hydrogen-alpha, ...

Symbols mark the locations of young, low-mass galaxies bursting with new stars when the universe was about 800 million years old. Using a filter sensitive to such galaxies, NASA’s James Webb Space ...

A NASA-sponsored team is creating a new approach to measure magnetic fields by developing a new system that can both take scientific measurements and provide spacecraft attitude control functions.