A comet from another star system is putting on a show that looks uncannily like a heartbeat, with bright jets of gas and dust ...

Landing on the Moon has always looked calm from a distance. A slow descent, a gentle touch, then stillness. But that calm ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission is being held up as a test case for a new era of cheaper planetary science, one where small ...

Holidays in Space is back at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. New this year is a NASA-themed holiday drone show.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot” features. Researchers say a sample ...

WASHINGTON -- NASA released extremely detailed, high definition video showing the surface of the moon. The video comes from data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. It recreates ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- A new visualization from NASA shows how the smoke plume from the Australian wildfires has traveled across the globe over the past several weeks. The visualization from the Earth ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you've ever joked that your neighbor's Christmas lights are bright enough to be seen from space, it turns out you're right! On Tuesday, NASA took the stage in San Francisco ...

A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted for the first time in 12,000 years on Sunday, November 23, sending a plume of ash nine miles into the air. Satellite imagery taken by NASA shows Ethiopia’s Afar ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover recently captured a sweeping panorama of Mars’ Gale Crater under exceptionally favorable viewing conditions, offering one of the clearest looks yet at the vast Martian basin.

A rock found on Mars contains substances that could have been produced by ancient microbes that were once alive, NASA said Wednesday. The NASA rover Perseverance found the rock, named “Cheyava Falls,” ...

A long time ago, life left microscopic signatures on Mars — or did it? That's the question NASA scientists have worked for years to answer. On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a ...