Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA’s shuttle servicing missions
Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here’s a summary of these epic servicing efforts.
Happy Earth Day 2025! Write your name in NASA satellite images and celebrate our planet (video)
Check out this fun way to embrace Earth Day and NASA’s 60 years of planetary observation.
The Sun’s Natural Gravitational Lensing is More Powerful Than You Thought
Let’s turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don’t have to do any work – we just have to be in the right spot.
NASA Wins Six Webby Awards, Six Webby People’s Voice Awards
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA was recognized today by the 29th Annual Webby Awards with six Webby Awards and six Webby People’s Voice…
First Light from NASA’s New PUNCH Mission
Studying the Sun is becoming increasingly important as more and more of our infrastructure moves off the surface and into the realm where coronal mass ejections and the solar wind…
ELVIS in orbit: New 3D microscope arrives at the ISS to study microbes in space
A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station to help study life’s adaptability under extreme conditions using an innovative imaging technique.
Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus
5 Min Read Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus Artist’s illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is eclipsed by Uranus – an…
There’s liquid on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. But something’s missing and scientists are confused
Scientists have long known that Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it’s strangely lacking in river deltas, a new study suggests.
First Results from the Eclipse Soundscapes Project: Webinar on May 7
2 min read First Results from the Eclipse Soundscapes Project: Webinar on May 7 How do the sudden darkness and temperature changes of a solar eclipse impact life on Earth?…
Sunshine on Earth
NASA The Sun’s glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025. The space station…