To protect Artemis II Astronauts, NASA experts keep their eyes on the sun

As four astronauts travel around the moon on NASA's Artemis II mission, they will venture beyond Earth's protective magnetic ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT tech helps NASA astronaut photograph the cosmos

RIT photographer creates a star tracker camera mount to assist NASA astronaut Don Pettit with his space photography on the ...
Science Daily

NASA launches twin spacecraft to solve the mystery of Mars’ lost atmosphere

Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much ...
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum Welcomes James Webb Space Telescope’s Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe to Collection

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

Satellite spies an erupting volcano | Space photo of the day for March 13, 2026

A new NASA satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen from ...
CNET

A 1,300-Pound NASA Satellite Just Made a Fiery Return to Earth

All things that go up must eventually come down. NASA says that its Van Allen Probe A satellite has fallen precipitously back to Earth after a 14-year journey through space. The probe reentered the ...

NASA's tiny spacecraft sends first exoplanet images

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most ...