Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

More than 30,000 scientists gathered in Washington, D.C. during the second week of December – many to show off the work of NASA’s science volunteers! The American Geophysical Union held its annual ...

Congratulations on finding today's 3.8 digital souvenir sticker. Thank you for joining Parker Solar Probe's journey as it gets closer to the Sun than ever before. Let the world know you’ve solved the ...

Congratulations on finding today's 3.8 digital souvenir sticker. Thank you for joining Parker Solar Probe's journey as it gets closer to the Sun than ever before. Let the world know you’ve solved the ...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be “tipped over,” rotating in an unexpected direction relative to the galaxy ...

Orientale Basin and its multiple rings formed about 3.8 billion years ago, at the end of the conjectured Late Heavy Bombardment. None of the rings are the initial crater itself, which would fall ...

The South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA) is the Moon’s largest impact feature, named because it spans the territory from the small Aitken crater to the Moon’s south pole, or nearly a quarter of the Moon's ...

Craters are the mark the passing universe leaves on the Moon, a cosmic guestbook. They tell us the history not only of the Moon, but of our solar system. Earth's Moon is covered in craters. Humanity's ...

The Moon’s craters were among the first things Galileo observed upon turning his telescope on the skies, informing the world that the lunar surface was “full of hollows and protuberances, just like ...

Around 4 billion years ago, our young inner solar system underwent a cataclysmic pummeling by asteroids that carved huge basins into Earth’s Moon. That’s the theory of the Late Heavy Bombardment, ...

F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) solicits proposals for graduate student-designed and performed research projects relevant to NASA’s Science Mission ...

Mars scientists have recently marked a new year on the Red Planet, a milestone that occurs every 687 days. Because the Martian new year coincides with spring in the planet’s northern hemisphere, it’s ...