These images and videos show technicians at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, March 17, 2025, moving the completed launch vehicle stage adapter for Artemis III from Building 4649 to Building 4708 where it will remain until it is time to ship the hardware to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cone-shaped [...]
The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission pictured aboard the International Space Station. From left to right: JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.Credit: NASA Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 during a news conference beginning at 10:40 a.m. [...]
Portrait of Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Credit: NASA On Monday, NASA announced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is set to leave the agency on Friday, Aug. 1. As center director of Goddard, a role she has held since April [...]
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023. A technique called annealing was used to help repair radiation damage to [...]
Photo of the Day Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula visible toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). At 5,700 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula [...]
Explore This Section Science Earth Science GLOBE-Trotting Science Lands… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science 2 min read GLOBE-Trotting Science Lands in Chesapeake with NASA eClips On June 16-17, 2025, 50 students at Camp Young in Chesapeake, Virginia traded their usual summer routines for [...]
City lights sparkle across the southern United States in this photograph from the International Space Station is it orbited into a sunrise 260 miles above Florida. In the right foreground, is a set of the orbital outpost’s main solar arrays augmented by a smaller set of roll out solar arrays.NASA The Expedition 73 crew kicked [...]
On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn’s shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings, and, in the background, our home planet, Earth.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI On July 19, 2013, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft had a rare opportunity to image Saturn and, far [...]
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Information provided by the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission (NISAR) will help to protect and inform communities around the world. The data will aid in managing agricultural fields, monitoring volcanoes, and tracking land-based ice including glaciers.NASA/JPL-Caltech Data from NISAR will map changes to Earth’s [...]
2 min read Bring NASA Science into Your Library! Calling all librarians! NASA sponsors dozens of research projects that need help from you and the people in your community. These projects invite everyone who’s interested to collaborate with scientists, investigating mysteries from how star systems form to how our planet sustains life. You can [...]
