NASA’s New Solar Sail Extends Its Booms and Sets Sail

Solar sails are an exciting way to travel through the Solar System because they get their…

235 Years Ago: Herschel Discovers Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

On Aug. 29, 1789, German-born British astronomer William Herschel observed a tiny bright dot orbiting around…

NASA Life Sciences Portal (NLSP)

The NASA Life Sciences Portal (NLSP) is the gateway to discovering and accessing all archive data…

Webb Discovers Six New “Rogue Worlds” that Provide Clues to Star Formation

Rogue Planets, or free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPMOs), are planet-sized objects that either formed in interstellar space…

Astronomers detect extended ionized gas around Messier 77

CHαS spectral imaging of Messier 77. Credit: Melso et al, 2024 Using the Circumgalactic H-alpha Spectrograph…

NASA Awards Intuitive Machines Lunar South Pole Research Delivery

A new set of NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations will arrive at the lunar South…

NASA Leaders Tour Ames Campus, Meet with Employees

NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free, Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails, and Director of Cross-Agency Strategy John…

A NASA Rocket Has Finally Found Earth’s Global Electric Field

Scientists have discovered that Earth has a third field. We all know about the Earth’s magnetic…

Observatory reveals key evidence of cosmic ray acceleration limit in W51 for first time

(a)The UHE gamma-ray emission is clearly observed from the W51 complex, which hosts the supernova remnant…

Saharan Dust in the Wind

The Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of a plume of Saharan dust as winds lofted it over…