NESSI views the galaxy in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. By Elizabeth Landau...
Space Exploration
Explore the history of space exploration and the technologies that carried robotic missions and human crews beyond Earth.
The maps of the Moon that were created at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory have long since...
A fundamental decision that led to the successful lunar landings came largely as a result of one...
We’re not exactly sure what the universe was up to in the first few nano-moments into the...
Apollo 8 was the moment that humanity realized a dream conceived in our cultural imagination over two...
U.S. space exploration inspired a generation of students and innovators, but NASA’s role has diminished, and the...
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
In the space beyond Earth’s atmosphere, countries are focusing on nationalist pursuits and ignoring the consequences for...
It has been 10 years since Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the commercial space age. What hurdles must...
Is there hope humanity will once again push beyond Earth? By Ryan P. Smith Few moments in...
Artist depiction of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. By Mopic/shutterstock.com An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer...
It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars – spinning neutron stars that emit short,...
A new approach to dating the birth of our solar system could help find other similar systems. Flickr/Dmitry...
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft...
By Dr. Martin Rees / 03.14.2018 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics University of Cambridge Soon after...
NASA By Paul Gilster / 04.08.2016 The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless,...
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ. / Photo by...
Huge ice sheets discovered on Mars could mean human exploration of the planet is closer than scientists...
Image from NASA By Azriel ReShel / 11.09.2017 All photos credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Witness the Beauty of...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
An illustration of Cassini diving between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Dr. Tanya Hill /...
Footage from the Apollo 11 moonwalk that was partially restored in 2009. / NASA 07.20.2017 July 1969....
The James Webb Space Telescope is pushed into the clean room of Building 32. Building 32 houses...
Saturn and its rings backlit by the sun, which is blocked by the planet in this view....
Look ma, no gravity! / NASA By Andy Tay / 03.09.2017 PhD Candidate in Bioengineering University of...
Astronomers have made the most detailed observation yet of an ultra-fast wind emanating from a Black Hole...
Artist’s impression of what the view might be like from the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. NASA/JPL-Caltech...
Tiny CubeSats are ready to be our eyes in the skies. Earth Background: NASA; HARP Spacecraft: SDL;...
“We leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all...
NGC 1448, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus hidden by gas and dust, is seen in...