Hubble Finds Best Evidence for Elusive Mid-Sized Black Hole
Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class…
#NASAatHome – Let NASA Bring the Universe to Your Home
NASA’s new Internet and social media special, NASA at Home, will show and engage you in the agency’s discoveries, research,…
Star Survives Close Call with a Black Hole
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black…
Hubble Spots Stretching Spiral
This sparkling spiral galaxy looks almost stretched across the sky in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.…
This Week in NASA History: Apollo 16 Launches – April 16, 1972
This week in 1972, Apollo 16 launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Apollo 16 was the second of three science-oriented…
30 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope
On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery. Here, Hubble…
Hubble Hooks a One-Arm Galaxy
NGC 4618 was discovered on April 9, 1787, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel, who also discovered Uranus in 1781.…
NASA’s Webb Telescope to Unravel Riddles of a Stellar Nursery
A bustling stellar nursery in the picturesque Orion Nebula will be a subject of study for NASA’s James Webb Space…
NASA Data Aids Ozone Hole’s Journey to Recovery
On Sept. 16, 1987, policymakers and scientists from around the world gathered at the International Civil Aviation Organization’s headquarters in…
Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data
A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in…
Piece Together The Universe With NASA
Time travel into deep space with the officially licensed NASA jigsaw. The awe-inspiring puzzles uses amazing and inspiring imagery from…
Hubble Makes Surprising Find in Early Universe
New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early…
The Space In-between: Aurora Australis
Like a wisp of electric green smoke, the aurora australis seemingly intersects with the Earth’s airglow as the International Space…
NASA Moving Forward to Enable a Low-Earth Orbit Economy
One year ago, NASA announced the agency is opening the space station for business, enabling commercial and marketing opportunities on…
NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World
Measurements from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment…