Inside Dark, Polar Moon Craters, Water Not as Invincible as Expected, Scientists Argue

Despite temperature that dips to -388 degrees Fahrenheit (-233 Celsius) and can presumably keep frost locked…

NASA Delivers Hardware for ESA Dark Energy Mission

Set to launch in 2022, the Euclid mission will probe some of the biggest questions in…

Tracking Smoke From Fires to Improve Air Quality Forecasting

NASA and NOAA kicked off a months-long airborne investigation into the life cycles of smoke from…

Goddard X-Ray Technology Opens New Frontiers In Space And Here On Earth

NASA has selected a breakthrough X-ray technology with diverse applications as the 2019 Government Invention of…

Hubble Spots a Stunning Spiral

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. One of the key galaxy types we see in…

NASA’s Webb Telescope Shines with American Ingenuity

Sending humans to the Moon is similar to building the worlds most complex and powerful space…

Earth's Shining Upper Atmosphere — From the Apollo Era to the Present

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts stood on the Moon and took a picture of Earth like…

LRO Camera Simulates View from Lunar Module

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) simulated what Neil Armstrong saw in those final minutes as he…

Alaska Still Reeling From Incessant Wildfires

Alaska is still setting the pace in the U.S. with the most wildfires and the largest…

A Few Things Artemis Will Teach Us About Living and Working on the Moon

Here are a few things we’ll learn by spending time on the Moon’s surface. …