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NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will collect the first samples from another planet.
The Extraordinary Sample-Gathering System of Perseverance Rover
The three NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station rang the NASDAQ opening bell Tuesday morning.
Space Station Crew Opens U.S. Market
A new visualization allows you to experience 500 years of cosmic evolution around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
A New Galactic Center Adventure in Virtual Reality
About 3.5 million years ago, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy unleashed an enormous burst of energy.
Intense Flash From Milky Way's Black Hole Illuminates Gas Outside Our Galaxy
Seven of the regions that dominate global ice mass losses are melting at an accelerated rate, a new study shows.
Ice Melt Linked to Accelerated Regional Freshwater Depletion
A pair of astronomers time traveled through archives of old data to unlock a mystery surrounding a bright, lensed, heavily obscured quasar.
Astronomers Revisit First ‘Einstein Ring' In Archival Data
The International Space Station has two new NASA astronauts after the SpaceX Crew Dragon arrived on Sunday.
Crew Dragon Astronauts Get Used to Space Station
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley have joined the International Space Station's Expedition 63 crew.
NASA's First Commercial Crew Astronauts Join Expedition 63
For the first time, NASA astronauts launched from U.S. soil in a commercially built and operated spacecraft.
NASA, SpaceX Launch First Astronauts From U.S. Soil Since 2011
A new NASA-funded study suggests that most of the lithium in our solar system came from bright stellar explosions called classical novae.
Lithium Comes From Exploding Stars
On May 29, 2020, a family of sunspots sported the biggest solar flare since October 2017.
New Sunspots Potentially Herald Increased Solar Activity
Swirling galaxy NGC 3895 would not look out of place on a coffee made by a starry-eyed barista.
Hubble Grabs a Stellar Latte
