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 ...

The (Proto) Planet: WISPIT 2b The Discovery: Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have ...

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 ...

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. Saturn's spectacle, a Conjunction, and the Autumnal Equinox Saturn shines throughout the month, a conjunction ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research team has been ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. August 11 & 12 – Venus-Jupiter Conjunction – The two brightest planets have a close meetup over several days, ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Different clouds types can have different effects on our weather and climate, which makes identifying cloud types ...

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 ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash on the left – on May 14. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Future space missions could use quantum technologies to help us understand the physical laws that govern the universe ...