As a writer for the NASA Web site’s students’ and educators’ pages, Heather Smith has written quite a few stories about students and teachers flying experiments on NASA’s reduced-gravity aircraft. Now ...

The translunar injection burn not only sets the Artemis II astronauts on the path to the Moon, it also puts the crew in a ...

UNITED STATES, — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the world's largest and most powerful space telescope, and Friday marked the second anniversary of the telescope's science operations. Since its ...

NIRCam highlights the stars within both galaxies and reveals the connection between them: a transparent, white bridge of stars and gas pulled from both galaxies during their passage. MIRI data, ...

MAVEN was conducting routine operations, passing behind Mars in its normal orbit, when the communication failure occurred. It’s not uncommon for spacecraft to lose contact when they pass behind a ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is continuing its critical mission to explore the Martian surface, with its recent study of dormant megaripples providing exciting new insights into the Red Planet’s ...