Earth's Moon

Two NASA astronauts are preparing for the final spacewalks to upgrade power systems on the space station.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet NEOWISE.

Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean have elevated the risk of fires in the southern Amazon.

A proposed mission called VERITAS seeks to transform our understanding of Venus.

Technicians recently finished applying more than 180 blocks of ablative material to the heat shield for the Orion spacecraft.

The Expedition 63 crew readied a pair of tiny satellites for deployment and finished packing a Russian cargo craft for departure.

A Russian cargo craft is due to depart the space station in the middle of the week after seven months on orbit.

The number of illegal gold mines in the Amazon is increasing so fast that activists have turned to satellite imagery to identify them.

Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken completed half the work to upgrade batteries for one channel on one pair of the station’s solar arrays.

Data from the LRO spacecraft indicates the Moon’s subsurface might be richer in metal than thought.

The next full Moon will be early Sunday morning, July 5, 2020. There also will be a partial penumbral eclipse of the Moon.

NASA's ASTER imaged areas burned by the Bighorn Fire north of Tucson, Arizona, on June 29.

The flight computers and avionics of the Space Launch System rocket’s core stage completed a thorough systems checkout.

Which way the solar wind blows has new importance as NASA again prepares to send astronauts to the Moon.

NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters for as many as six additional flights.

The June dust storm is quite expansive and NASA satellites are providing a look at the massive plume.

As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade.

The crew lightened up on spacewalk preparations and focused its attention on a variety of research hardware.

Didymos B is getting an official name of its own: Dimorphos.

For the first time in its history, NASA has initiated an effort to enable its personnel to fly on future commercial suborbital spaceflights.

A fleet of Earth-observing satellites provides remarkable advances in hurricane forecasting.

Planetary scientist Geronimo Villanueva created the sunset simulations while building a tool for a possible mission to Uranus.

The rocket booster segments that will help power NASA’s first Artemis flight test mission around the Moon arrived at KSC.

While Stargazing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover Spots Earth and Venus.

The water-seeking mobile VIPER robot will help pave the way for astronaut missions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024.