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The next full Moon will be on Tuesday night, April 7.

Why does the Moon look so big when it's rising or setting? The Moon illusion is the name for this trick our brains play on us.

Fun — and even educational — NASA activities to do at home.

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.

The next full Moon, a "supermoon," will be on Monday, March 9, appearing full from early Sunday morning into early Wednesday morning.

The Voyager imaging team asked for the photo to show Earth’s vulnerability — to illustrate how small, fragile and irreplaceable it is on a cosmic scale.

Surrounded by California desert, NASA officials broke ground Tuesday, Feb. 11, on a new antenna for communicating with the agency's farthest-flung robotic spacecraft.

After setting a record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman, NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday.

Recently, A NASA scientist analyzed the age of the Yarrabubba meteor crater in Australia and found it to be 2.229 billion years old, making it now the oldest crater currently known.

Scientists have presented new images of the ionosphere, the dynamic region where Earth’s atmosphere meets space.

Everything you need to know about the Ionosphere, the boundary between Earth's lower atmosphere — where we live and breathe — and the vacuum of space.

Valles Marineris is often called the "Grand Canyon of Mars," but does it compare to Earth's own Grand Canyon?

The next full Moon will be on Sunday afternoon, October 13, 2019, The Moon will appear full for about three days centered on this time, from Saturday morning to Tuesday morning.

Here are 10 of our favorite ways to observe the Moon.

One of the strangest things in the cosmos might be – us. Among the thousands of planets confirmed to be in orbit around other stars, we’ve found nothing quite like our home planet.

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.