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A New Partnership to Power The Lunar Gateway on This Week @NASA
A key milestone for our lunar Gateway, “rolling out” for a critical Orion safety test, and a chance to send your name to Mars … a few of the stories to tell ...
Gravity Assist Podcast
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and…
Hubble Spies Curious Galaxy Moving a Little Closer
This Hubble image stars Messier 90, a beautiful spiral galaxy located roughly 60 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation of Virgo (the Virgin). The galaxy is part of the Virgo…
Space to Ground: The ABC's of DNA: 05/24/2019
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Got a question or comment? Use #AskNASA to talk to u...
Extraordinary Materials: Developed for Space, Useful for Just About Everything on Earth
Did you know technologies developed for space show up all over Earth? Our Technology Transfer Program has one major goal: bring our technology down to Earth. We patent space innovations developed…
Glint of the Irrawaddy Delta
Sunlight traces the mouth of one of Asia’s great rivers—a major artery for commercial and sediment transport.
New Studies Increase Confidence in Measure of Earth's Temperature
The first assessment of statistical uncertainty in the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) index shows that recent surface warming trends are significantly larger than the uncertainty in the…
NASA Awards Artemis Contract for Lunar Gateway Power, Propulsion
In one of the first steps of the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration plans, NASA announced on Thursday the selection of Maxar Technologies, formerly SSL, in Westminster, Colorado, to develop and…
Experience the Orion Ascent Abort 2 Test
Social media users are invited to register to attend the Orion Ascent Abort 2 Test from Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Waxing Crescent Moon Above Earth's Limb
The waxing crescent moon is photographed just above Earth's limb.
NASA Invites Public to Help Asteroid Mission Choose Sample Site
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu would like extra pairs of eyes to help choose its sample collection site on the asteroid – and to look for anything else that might be scientifically…
10+ Things: Tour of Storms Across the Solar System
Our solar system is a stormy place. Join us on a tour of storms.
Send Your Name to Mars: Mars 2020
Send Your Name to Mars. View and share your Boarding Pass. See your Frequent Flyer points: go.nasa.gov/Mars2020Pass
Kennel
[Skip to Content] Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex offers a free on-site pet kennel for visitors. Complimentary water and food bowls are available in this climate controlled facility, as well as…
NASA is Going Green, in Space
NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, or GPIM, will prove a sustainable and efficient approach to spaceflight.
Big City Life Awaits Drones in Final Year of NASA Research
The city landscape holds unique challenges for flying drones, and NASA is taking these on in the final year of its research into drone traffic management.
Seasonal Monsoon Rains Block Key Ocean Current
A major ocean current connecting the Pacific and Indian oceans slows dramatically during northwest Asia Monsoon season. Now, scientists have figured out why.
New Horizons Team Publishes First Kuiper Belt Flyby Science Results
NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69.
NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection of a planetary magnetic that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation.
NASA and Virgin Orbit 3D Print, Test Rocket Combustion Chamber
Marshall and other NASA field centers are partnering with commercial provider Virgin Orbit to test an innovative, 3D printed rocket part that could aid development of future vehicles carrying science…
50 Years Ago: Apollo 10 to Sort Out the Unknowns
As Commander Thomas P. Stafford stated during a preflight press conference, Apollo 10 was planned to “sort out all the unknowns” to make the Moon landing possible.