The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program mission designed to detect the ...

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection ...

In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in ...

The TESS mission scans a wide swath of the sky, called a sector, for about a month at a time using its four cameras. These ...

NASA Missions Track Record-Breaking Radio Burst from Sun When NASA scientists first observed a particular radio burst from the Sun in August 2025, there was nothing unusual about it. But then the ...

A recently developed ultra-black coating not only efficiently absorbs light, but is also extremely thin and durable, enabling its potential use on starshades that could someday support the imaging of ...

Light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light zips through interstellar space at 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second and 5.88 trillion ...

A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 ...

Amendment 58: F.17 Research Initiation Awards Final Text and Due Date The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Research Initiation Awards (RIA) program aims to broaden the base of institutions ...

The bus structure of NASA’s NEO Surveyor, shown here, underwent a round of testing at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2025. The bus houses the power, propulsion, ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region nicknamed “Crocodile Bridge” on Jezero ...

On Sept. 15, 2017, the Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into Saturn's atmosphere, ending the mission just one month shy of its 20th launch anniversary.