Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of ...

Hubble 3D Model Over Earth in NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" Feature Hubble is featured in NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" interactive, which shows where it is currently located in its orbit ...

In the waters off New England, one of Earth’s rarest mammals swims slowly, mouth agape. The North Atlantic right whale filters clouds of tiny reddish zooplankton — called Calanus finmarchicus — from ...

The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Humans and Novae Because they are so bright, novae can be visible to the unaided eye. This means that humans most likely saw novae long before telescopes were invented. From Earth, novae don't look ...

The second rocket mission, led by Samara, will study so-called “black auroras,” where light from an aurora appears to be missing. In the last 25 years, research using the ESA (European Space Agency) ...

The supermassive black hole imaged by the EHT is located in the center of the elliptical galaxy M87, located about 55 million light years from Earth. This image was captured by FORS2 on ESO's Very ...

Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are rare, high-altitude clouds that glow with a blue silvery hue at dusk or dawn when the Sun shines on them from below the horizon. These ice clouds typically ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the ...

Firsts First spacecraft to enter Jupiter's atmosphere Key Dates Oct. 18, 1989: Launch July 13, 1995: Probe was released from the Galileo spacecraft Dec. 7, 1995: Probe penetrated Jupiter's atmosphere ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected for the first time a population of white dwarfs embedded in the hub of our Milky Way galaxy. The Hubble images are the deepest, most detailed study of the ...

If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up ...