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Looking for biosignatures across the solar system requires looking for asymmetry. Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, are famously either left-handed (L) or right-handed (D). We know abiotic processes (i.e. tho...

Using observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft, an international team led by Shandong University shows that Jupiter's magnetodisk is a rippling structure that rotates with the planet, contrary to what scientists ...

Astrophysicists think that hypernovae are the most powerful stellar explosions in the Universe. They're the most explosive type of core-collapse supernova. But the evidence for them is not voluminous, and new researc...

NASA engineer and astronaut Christina Koch will serve as the agencys acting deputy chief engineer beginning on Sunday, Nov. 1, following the retirement of Katherine Van Hooser, who will conclude more than 35 years of dis...

The sophomore season of "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" will warp back to the small screen in March 2027 when the limited series returns for its final season on Paramount+.

This iconic spaceship will now live long and prosper in its brand-new Star Trek Tour home.

The location of Earth's geographic poles has changed several times over the past 320 million years in a process known as true polar wander.

Description This infographic illustrates the distances driven by various rovers on the surface of Earths Moon and Mars. Of the vehicles shown, the NASA Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity are still operational and mov...

Description Members of NASAs Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agencys Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a certificate from Guinness World Records marking the rover distanc...

Description Rover tracks and a rocky Martian landscape are shown in this image captured by one of thenavigation cameras (navcams)aboard NASAs Perseverance Mars rover on Oct. 11, 2026, the 2,006th Martian day, or sol, of ...

Three NASA-supported small spacecraft, along with many commercial payloads, are shown before being encapsulated in a SpaceX Falcon 9 ahead of launch on Oct. 1, 2026. The ASCENT Propulsion Dual Mode CubeSat, the Supernova...

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Description A lunar lander from Voyager Technologies completed nearly three months of environmental testing at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in late September 2026. The tests demonstrate that the...

The SpaceX cargo launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday morning (Oct. 13) created a dazzling display seen up and down the US East Coast.

Reentry provider Varda Space Industries is currently flying two spacecraft in Earth orbit and has eight more missions planned in the next year.

In just one more month, the European Space Agencys Hera mission will make history. Moving at 12 kilometers per second versus Earth, the mission is about to rendezvous with the binary Dimorphos-Didymos asteroid pair. NASA...

For more information, contact Joel W. Sills, Langley Research Center, [email protected] Download the PDF version Complex mode shapes can emerge in a linear structure even when overall damping is low. This behavior ca...

A commercial lander that will be at the forefront of NASA's efforts to establish a moon base, humanity's first lunar outpost, has passed a series of critical tests at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...

Real-life astronaut and science communicator Emily Calandrelli will make a guest appearance in the upcoming episode of Disney Jr.'s animated "Marvel's Iron Man and his Awesome Friends" on Oct. 14.

Real-life astronaut and science communicator Emily Calandrelli will make a guest appearance in the upcoming episode of Disney Jr.'s animated "Marvel's Iron Man and his Awesome Friends" on Oct. 14.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has broken the record for the farthest distance driven on a world beyond Earth, passing its smaller cousin Opportunity.

Auroras paint the International Space Station purple in new iPhone photo from orbit.