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An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping apart a star.

The Defense Innovation Unit plans to select companies to field and operate spacecraft before transferring them to government control within three years The post Pentagon seeks commercially built GEO spy satellites appear...

"This data provides us with rare insight into how galaxies were transformed in the early universe."

Sam Rockwell rocks as a mad time traveler saving the world from a rogue AI in Gore Verbinski's new film "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die."

The CSDA Program has added imagery from Vantor to its Satellite Data Explorer (SDX) data access and discovery tool.

The CSDA Programs Data Acquisition Request System lets authorized users submit proposals for yet-to-be-collected data from CSDAs commercial partners.

The CSDA Programannounced eight new agreements that will give users more access to multispectral and synthetic aperture radar data.

Looking at Chlorophyll from Space By Compton Jim Tucker NASA scientists are able to study plants from space, but this wasnt always the case. I love using satellite data to study the Earth, says Dr. Compton Jim Tucker. Wh...

By Denise Lineberry On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth...

By John Mather The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous orbit 900 km up. Our team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Ball Aerospace...

By Laura Rocchio On July 23, 1972 the first civilian satellite designed to image Earths land surfaces was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. On board the satellite, originally named the Earth Resource...

By Marcia J. Rieke The development of infrared detector arrays is intertwined with my experiences working on NASA projects. As an astronomer at a university, my interactions with NASA all start with a proposal in respons...

Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star.

Just a few hundred light-years from Earth, the famous variable star Mira A is huffing and puffing its outer layers to space. Its most recent mass-loss event ejected more material at higher velocity than in past events. A...

As NASA continues preparations for the Artemis II test flight, the agency will provide coverage Thursday, Feb. 19, of its next wet dress rehearsal, a fueling test of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, and hold a news ...

If a pair of black holes coalesce into one, much of that vast energy can be released in a few seconds.

Commodity Classic, February 25 - 27, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #3481) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 4:30 - 4:50 PMNASA: Your Space and Sci...

Fishing boats illuminate the Arabian Sea along Indias west coast with green lights designed to attract squid, shrimp, sardines, and mackerel in this nighttime photograph from the International Space Station, orbiting 259...

Description These images were part of the first successful use of anew technology called Mars Global Localization, developed at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Using its navigation cameras, NASAs Perseverance captured a...

Description Using its navigation cameras, NASAs Perseverance Mars rover captured the five stereo pairs of images that make up this panorama on Feb. 2, 2026, the 1,762nd day, or sol, of the mission. A new technology calle...

There is no GPS at the Red Planet, but a new technology called Mars Global Localization lets Perseverance determine precisely where it is - without human help. Imagine youre all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgivi...

Theres been plenty in the news about 3I/ATLAS over the course of the past 8 months. Our third confirmed interstellar visitor went behind the Sun during its closest approach, but reemerged in December with plenty of eyes ...