Missions

Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Missions
Students from the Creative Learning Academy in Pensacola, Florida, will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The space-to-Earth call will air live at 9:30 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 15. Watch the NASA+ streaming service at no cost on demand. The briefing also will air live […]
Posted November 13, 2023
Artemis
Artemis Accords
Missions
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in a signing ceremony Thursday with Bulgaria’s Milena Stoycheva, minister of innovation and growth, as her country became the 32nd nation to sign the Artemis Accords.
Posted November 9, 2023
Missions
Artemis
Media accreditation is open for the first United States commercial robotic flight to the Moon’s surface as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis program.
Posted November 3, 2023
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
This vibrant Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 1566, sometimes informally referred to as the ‘Spanish Dancer Galaxy’. Like the subject of another recent image, NGC 1566 is a weakly-barred or intermediate spiral galaxy. This means that it does not have a clearly present or a clearly absent bar-shaped structure at its […]
Posted November 3, 2023
General
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Exoplanet Detection Methods
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanet Exploration Program
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Kepler / K2
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
The Universe
A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope: Each one is bathed in more radiant heat from their host star per area than any planet in our solar system. Also unlike any of our immediate neighbors, all seven planets in this system, named […]
Posted November 2, 2023
Ozone Layer
Aura
Earth
General
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
NOAA-20 (JPSS-1)
Suomi NPP (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify the ranking of the 2023 ozone hole.  It is the 12th largest single-day hole on record, and the 16th largest when averaged from Sept. 7 to Oct. 13. The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based […]
Posted November 1, 2023
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the interacting galaxy pair known as Arp-Madore 2339-661.
Posted October 27, 2023
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Earth-like Exoplanets
Exoplanet Detection Methods
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Gas Giant Exoplanets
General
Gravitational Microlensing
Kepler / K2
Missions
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
Neutron Stars
Science & Research
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
Super-Earth Exoplanets
Terrestrial Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Kuiper Belt
The Milky Way
The Solar System
The Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of stars in search of tell-tale flickers that betray the presence of planets, distant stars, small icy objects that haunt the outskirts of our solar system, isolated […]
Posted October 24, 2023
Dragonfly
Langley Research Center
Missions
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Saturn
Saturn Moons
Science Mission Directorate
Dragonfly Team Utilizes Unique NASA Facilities to Shape Its Innovative Titan-bound Rotorcraft  With its dense atmosphere and low gravity, Saturn’s moon Titan is a great place to fly.  But well before NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander soars through Titan’s skies, researchers on Earth – led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in La
Posted October 23, 2023
Humans in Space
In-flight Education Downlinks
International Space Station (ISS)
Learning Resources
Missions
Students from Baldwin Union Free School District in Baldwin, New York, will have an opportunity this week to hear from an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 27, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
Posted October 23, 2023
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