Hubble captures a luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light.

Leo is a prominent sight for stargazers in April. Its famous sickle, punctuated by the bright star Regulus, draws many a beginning stargazer’s eyes, inviting ...

NASA has selected 10 participating scientists to help shape a science plan for astronauts to complete on the lunar surface under the Artemis program – ...

The animation above shows the change in global surface temperatures. The period used to calculate the average for comparison is 1951 – 1980. Dark blue shows areas cooler than average. Dark red shows ...

Different colors of light have different wavelengths and energy. (Human eyes detect differences in wavelength and energy as differences in color.) Light toward the red end of the spectrum has longer ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012 inside Gale Crater, which lies on the boundary between Mars' cratered southern highlands and its smooth, northern plains. Follow Curiosity’s ...

The Moon’s atmosphere contains about one million billion (10 15) times fewer molecules per cubic centimeter than Earth’s does. This is primarily because Earth is more massive (so it has a stronger ...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet ...

Kelsey Young, Trevor Graff, and Angela Garcia—are pioneering a new era of mission operations by integrating advanced lunar ...

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier has been in the spotlight in recent years, as scientists have undertaken a multi-part international project to study the vast glacier from all angles. The urgency stems ...

In many parts of the U.S. East Coast, rising seas driven by melting ice and the thermal expansion of warming water is only part of what threatens coastal areas. The land is also sinking. This geologic ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million miles per hour as it traverses to the edge of interstellar space bathing ...