Space

In honor of America’s historic 250th anniversary, NASA announced on Friday MAX POWER, a public exposition of American air and space innovation, …

Explanation: Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth’s skies from a radiant in …

NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace innovation that …

Explanation: On August 12, the Moon’s shadow reached out to touch our fair planet. Beginning in the Arctic Ocean, it swept along …

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Topline In the wake of photos of the 2026 total solar eclipse from the path of totality through Greenland, Iceland and Spain …

Explanation: On August 12th, 2026, the Moon totally eclipsed the Sun and cast its shadow across Siberia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and Portugal. Today’s image features two total solar eclipses viewed …

The first photos from today’s total solar eclipse are here, and they’re spectacular. Captured Wednesday (Aug. 12) by NASA scientists during a …

“When we see something very red in the universe, we often assume that it is surrounded by dust, like soot or ash,” …

Topline Want to livestream today’s total solar eclipse? On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, the moon’s shadow will sweep across the Arctic and …

This article is for students grades 5-8. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory. The telescope will scan large …

As NASA prepares to return astronauts to the lunar surface for longer stays and increasingly complex operations, building the Moon Base will require new ideas, advanced technologies, and expertise across many fields.  During …

Topline Skywatchers across the U.S. and Canada have two celestial events to catch within 24 hours. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, a partial …

As NASA+ continues its expansion across multiple streaming platforms to bring space closer to home, NASA announced Monday programming is next heading …

For space fans and skywatchers alike, Wednesday Aug. 12 is destined to be a date for the history books. For those in …

Topline The Perseid meteor shower, one of the year’s celestial highlights, reaches its peak this week beneath perfectly dark skies, promising one …

Explanation: There are more than half a million galaxies in the central panel of this image from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. This is the COSMOS field, …

quick facts What it is: Saguaro, a lower-redshift spiral galaxy Where it is: About 10 billion light-years away in the constellation Ursa …

Topline A total solar eclipse will sweep across the Arctic and parts of Europe on Wednesday, Aug. 12, while observers in Europe …

IGARSS 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #100) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, AUGUST …

Millions of people across Europe and North America will witness a solar eclipse on Wednesday, Aug. 12, but the event will vary …

Explanation: Which of these is not a comet? You guessed it – the one on the right is a globular star cluster. …

Smart mobility AI technologies, from factory floors to in-vehicle tech to physical AI on the street, is the automobile industry and its …

Before astronauts return to the Moon’s surface through NASA’s Artemis program, the hardware they depend on must first prove it can survive the unforgiving …

In the dead of night on Wednesday (Aug. 5), part of a defunct SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at more than …

New images captured by the world’s most powerful solar telescope have revealed something that was hiding in plain sight on the sun …

A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for …

Every total solar eclipse travels from west to east, because the moon and Earth move in the same direction — counterclockwise, or …

Topline SpaceX’s stock once again took a hit on Wednesday after the rocket maker posted its first-ever earnings report, which seemingly spooked …

Explanation: Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings looping forwards …