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Chris Kraft, the flight director who created the concept of NASA's Mission Control, died Monday, July 22. He was 95.

The forecast for the next solar cycle says it will be the weakest of the last 200 years.

The mystery of why Earth has so much water, allowing our “blue marble” to support an astounding array of life, is clearer with new research into comets.

Our solar system is a stormy place. Join us on a tour of storms.

Next week at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference, NASA’s PDCO and other U.S. agencies and space science institutions, along with international partners, will participate in a “tabletop exercise” that will play out a realistic—but fictional—scenario for an asteroid on an impact trajectory with Earth.

As we celebrate Earth Day 2019, here are 10 views of our home world — as it can only be seen from the distance of deep space.

Mientras celebramos el Día de la Tierra de 2019, mostramos 10 imágenes de nuestro planeta como solo se le puede ver desde la distancia del espacio profundo.

Scientists have found evidence that Mercury’s inner core is indeed solid and that it is very nearly the same size as Earth’s inner core.

This site is among seven NASA sites nominated this year for a Webby. People's Voice voting is underway.

From precision GPS to batteries for one of the world’s first commercial all-electric airplanes, NASA technology turns up in nearly every corner of modern life.

​On Dec. 18, 2018, a large "fireball" — the term used for exceptionally bright meteors that are visible over a wide area — exploded about 16 miles (26 kilometers) above the Bering Sea.

Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it’s often in rings.

Whether you're doing it for the nerd cred or the pie, this week on #10Things, we've got all the ways you can celebrate #PiDay with NASA.

En la vasta expansión de nuestro sistema solar hay un lugar que, de cierto modo, conocemos incluso mejor que algunas partes de la Tierra. Es una roca que gira y que siempre está presente en nuestras vidas: nuestro satélite natural, la Luna.

NASA invites you to take a behind-the-scenes look at how the agency explores outer space with a new monthly series that premieres this week.

Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results of the new study offer clues to how life started on Earth and where else in the cosmos we might find it.

Scientists have synthesized a molecular system that, like DNA, can store and transmit information. This suggests there could be a genetic system for life that may be possible on other worlds.

Scientists may have discovered the oldest Earth rock ever—on the Moon. A lunar sample returned by the Apollo 14 astronauts may contain a bit of Earth from about 4 billion years ago.

In studying Mars, NASA's InSight will reveal what makes one planet more or less suitable for life than another.

November 16 marks the premiere of a unique film and musical experience inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope’s famous Deep Field image

Planetary scientists study volcanoes in Iceland to better understand Earth and other planets.

From deep below the soil at Earth’s polar regions to Pluto’s frozen heart, ice exists all over the solar system...and beyond.

Quite a few candles have been lit since NASA was born on Oct. 1, 1958. Here’s a quick look back at some highlights from six decades of exploration—and a glimpse of what’s ahead.

Tools that can quickly reveal a terrain’s chemistry and form will help astronauts explore new worlds.

Did somebody say space laser? NASA is set to launch ICESat-2, our most advanced laser instrument of its kind, into orbit around Earth on Sept. 15.