Nearly four decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400…
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On the Road Again… – NASA
A drone camera captures NASA’s mobile launcher 1 atop the agency’s crawler-transporter 2 moving from Launch…
NASA Michoud Gets a Rare Visitor
The Oort Cloud comet, called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, passes over Southeast Louisiana near New Orleans, home…
Imagining the Future – NASA
An unidentified illustration of NASA’s space shuttle. The space shuttle fleet flew 135 missions and helped…
Europa Clipper Begins Journey to Jupiter’s Icy Moon
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A…
Ancient Comet Makes Appearance – NASA
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was about 44 million miles away from Earth in this photograph from…
Ring Around the Mountain – NASA
On New Zealand’s North Island, a conical snow-capped volcano ringed by dark green forest rises above…
Lead Astromaterial Curation Engineer Salvador Martinez III
“It took years but it felt like all of the sudden, I was here and everything,…
NASA’s Earth Information Center at the Smithsonian
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Sant Director, Kirk Johnson, preview…
Instructions for Aliens – NASA
Flying aboard Voyagers 1 and 2 are identical “golden” records, carrying the story of Earth far…