NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Tracks Fire and Smoke from Two Continents

On Sept. 13, 2019, data from NASA/NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite’s OMPS instrument revealed aerosols and smoke…

NASA’s WFIRST Will Help Uncover Universe’s Fate

NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope will launch in the will explore how dark energy has…

NASA Funds CubeSat Pathfinder Mission to Unique Lunar Orbit

NASA has awarded a $13.7 million contract to Advanced Space of Boulder, Colorado, to develop and…

Hubble Glimpses Faint Galaxy

This Hubble image focuses on an object named UGC 695, which is located 30 million light-years…

NASA's Mars 2020 Comes Full Circle

Aiming to pinpoint the Martian vehicle’s center of gravity, engineers took NASA’s 2,300-pound Mars…

Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor

Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) has excited the astronomical community because it appears to have…

NASA Licenses Cybersecurity Technology to Equator Corporation

A Washington, D.C.-based company, Equator Corporation, licensed a unique, patented NASA cybersecurity technology this year. …

PIA23436: A Storm of Change

           Target: Jupiter Mission:  Juno Instrument:  JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Björn Jónsson, ©…

Saturn's Rings Shine in Hubble's Latest Portrait

Saturn is so beautiful that astronomers cannot resist using the Hubble Space Telescope to take yearly…

Mae Jemison Trains for Her Space Shuttle Flight

Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, participated in crew egress training for Space Shuttle…