Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe.

On a clear night, you might see thousands of stars in the sky. Most of these stars are dozens or hundreds of light years away from us. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a year: ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. What’s Up for October? A Supermoon takes over, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteors ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble — one for the ring and ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This is a collection of NASA science spacecraft and aircraft. The icons are formatted as transparent PNG files for ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Editor’s Note: The article was updated to reflect that the Wolf-Rayet star is located in the constellation Sagitta.

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Watch as NASA-JPL engineers test the Sample Caching System on the Perseverance Mars rover. Described as one of the ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Eclipses occur on our planet when the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up. Exactly how they align determines what kind of ...

This is an artist's impression of a runaway supermassive black hole that was ejected from its host galaxy as a result of a tussle between it and two other black holes. As the black hole plows through ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash near the middle of the image — on June 17, 2025. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light ...