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. What’s Up for October? A Supermoon takes over, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteors ...

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. When you think about national park and public land astronomy programs, you might picture remote locations far from ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. In archival footage of a historic NASA news conference, the mission reveals history-making images of six planets in ...

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. 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. 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. From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern ...

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 ...