As NASA prepares to send a probe to Psyche 16—a metallic asteroid orbiting the Sun approximately 371 million miles from Earth—the space agency continues to find ways to ramp up public interest in the ...

NASA's Juno probe has flown closer to Jupiter and its largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades — and the images it beamed back of the gas giant and its icy orb are ...

NASA's Terra satellite obtained visible imagery as Tropical Storm Delta made landfall in Louisiana and moved northeastward soaking the U.S. southeast and Mid-Atlantic states. NASA Satellite View: ...

NASA has released a cinematic animation showing some of the key moments from the upcoming Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. Mars Sample Return: Bringing Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth The complex ...

NASA is getting closer to conducting its first crewed lunar missions in 50 years as part of the Artemis program, but first it has to test the spaceflight hardware supporting the endeavor. To share the ...

A capsule carrying Perseverance will plunge through Mars's atmosphere (left) and a jetpack will fly the rover to a safe landing spot (right). NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

The speed of light, just shy of 300 million meters per second, is the theoretical speed limit of the universe. Compared to anything we encounter on a daily basis, light travels so fast that it appears ...

NASA has just released a new animation showcasing the mind-boggling scale of supermassive black holes. These cosmic monsters are known to be lurking at the centers of many large galaxies, including ...

NASA’s next Mars rover, the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory, will soon embark on a quantum leap in humankind’s scientific exploration of the Martian surface. To get a birds eye understanding of ...

NASA's Aqua satellite obtained visible imagery as Tropical Storm Hanna formed in the Gulf of Mexico and continued to organize. A new animation from NASA shows how Hanna developed and intensified as it ...

On Thursday, NASA's newest interplanetary robot will attempt a heart-pounding feat: landing on Mars. If it reaches Martian ground in one piece, the Perseverance rover will then set about exploring an ...