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The Grand Finale
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August 31, 2018
Cassini's final moments.
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One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of t...
One Image, One Million Galaxies
Sending the first Artemis mission to the Moon in preparation for human missions, landing a new rover on Mars, and launching the James Webb Space Telescope into space, expanding our ability to see d...
NASA in 2021
January 2021 skywatching highlights: Begin the new year with "perihelion," then catch a glimpse of elusive Uranus and Mercury later in the month.
What's Up: January 2021 [Video]
One key activity for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will be to collect samples of Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). The samples will be collected and brought to Earth by a future mi...
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Equipped with Ultra-Clean Sample Tubes
After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. But, to reach the surface of the Red Planet, it has to survive the harrowi...
Perseverance Arrives at Mars: Feb. 18, 2021 (Mission Trailer)
In these coloring pages you’ve traveled our universe and explored what’s inside of it! From Earth’s Moon to the many moons of Jupiter, and from Mars to Jupiter to planets outside our solar system, ...
Color Your Universe - Your Universe Revealed
All of NASA’s science missions are driven by powerful questions to help us better understand our planet, our solar system, and beyond. What vibrant colors will you bring to these scenes of explorat...
Color Your Universe Week 6
All of NASA’s science missions are driven by powerful questions to help us better understand our planet, our solar system, and beyond. What vibrant colors will you bring to these scenes of explorat...
Color Your Universe Week 5
December 2, 2020, marked the 25th anniversary of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO – a joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA. Since its launch on that date, the mission ...
Decades of Sun from SOHO
December 2020 skywatching highlights: Catch some Geminid meteors, then see Jupiter and Saturn get their closest in decades on the December solstice.
What's Up: December 2020 [Video]
On February 24, 1987, observers in the southern hemisphere saw a new object in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. This was one of the brightest supernova explosi...
Supernova 1987A Sonification
All of NASA’s science missions are driven by powerful questions to help us better understand our planet, our solar system, and beyond. What vibrant colors will you bring to these scenes of explorat...
Color Your Universe Week 4
The U.S.-European oceanographic satellite Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich launched to Earth's orbit on Nov. 21, 2020, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. During a five-and-a-half-year prime mission, it wi...
Launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite
While the real OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is working to bring a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth, you can take your own pocket spacecraft for an adventure right here at home.
#MyOSIRISREx Pocket Spacecraft
This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2021, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour.
Moon Phases 2021 – Northern Hemisphere
All of NASA’s science missions are driven by powerful questions to help us better understand our planet, our solar system, and beyond. What vibrant colors will you bring to these scenes of explorat...
Color Your Universe Week 3
Sound waves from the nascent universe, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), left their imprint on the cosmos by influencing galaxy distribution. Researchers have explored this imprint back t...
Echoes of the Universe's Creation
All of NASA’s science missions are driven by powerful questions to help us better understand our planet, our solar system, and beyond. What vibrant colors will you bring to these scenes of explorat...
Color Your Universe Week 2
A coloring and activity booklet featuring past, present, and future rovers across the solar system. Grab your coloring tools & let's see what you create!
Rovers of the Solar System
To prepare the new Perseverance rover for its big day on Mars, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission team conducted a wide array of tests to ensure a successful entry, descent, and landing at the Red Planet.
Preparing to Land Perseverance
All of NASA’s science missions are driven by powerful questions to help us better understand our planet, our solar system, and beyond. What vibrant colors will you bring to these scenes of explorat...
Color Your Universe Week 1
NASA’s Dawn: Highlighting Bright Areas of Ceres
NASA's Dawn: Highlighting Bright Areas of Ceres
November 2020 skywatching highlights: Look for the Pleiades, the Moon with Jupiter and Saturn, and Earthshine illuminating the Moon.
What's Up: November 2020 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Listen to our playlist filled with new “moans” and “whistles” from our universe that would scare the most ghoulish of creatures.
Sinister Sounds of the Solar System
Happy Halloween, space explorers. Perhaps you could carve a few moments out of your busy schedule to join me for a haunted hayride to some of the more disturbing destinations of your sinister littl...
Haunted Hayride through the Sinister Solar System
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NASA and Poland have agreed to cooperate on a NASA heliophysics mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP).
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