Photo of the Day Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster M15. The central ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy, and continues to orbit the Milky Way's center. M15, one of about 150 globular clusters remaining, is noted for being easily [...]
Explore This Section Science Science Activation PLANETS Units Have Landed –… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science 4 min read PLANETS Units Have Landed – Free NASA-Funded Out-of-School Time Resources Constructing a three dimensional topographic map from the Remote Sensing Science Pathway. The NASA [...]
NASA/Kim Shiflett In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space [...]
Soyuz MS-28 crew members (from left) Chris Williams from NASA and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, both from Roscosmos.GCTC One NASA astronaut and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan counting down to a lift off on Thanksgiving Day to the International Space Station to begin an eight-month microgravity research mission. The [...]
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Reid Wiseman finds a little peace and quiet in the station’s Destiny lab.NASA The Lifetime Surveillance of Astronaut Health (LSAH) program collects, analyzes, and interprets medical, physiological, hazard exposure, and environmental data for the purpose of maintaining astronaut health and safety as well as [...]
Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA & GLOBE Connect People,… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science 4 min read NASA & GLOBE Connect People, Land, and Space The GLOBE Land Cover satellite comparison table is generated weekly for every GLOBE Land Cover observation. [...]
Photo of the Day What did Comet Lemmon look like when it was at its best? One example is pictured here, featuring three celestial spectacles all at different distances. The closest spectacle is the snowcapped Meili Mountains, part of the Himalayas in China. The middle marvel is Comet Lemmon near its picturesque best early [...]
A yellow-green airglow blankets Earth’s horizon beneath a star-filled sky in this long-exposure photograph taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 265 miles above the cloudy Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile.NASA High intensity exercising and droplets teeming with particles were the main research topics aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. [...]
NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has made another set of critical strides toward launch. This fall, the outer portion passed two tests — a shake test and an intense sound blast — to ensure its successful launch. The inner portion of the observatory underwent a major 65-day thermal vacuum test, showing [...]
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology) Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula, in this image released on Oct. 26, 2025. NIRCam is Webb’s primary near-infrared imager, providing high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy for a wide variety of investigations. [...]
