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Asteroids
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jupiter
Lucy
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
Trojan Asteroids
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NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
Posted February 27, 2025
Biological & Physical Sciences
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
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Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals?
Posted January 29, 2025
2024 Solar Eclipse
Citizen Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Solar Eclipses
The Sun
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On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse swept across North America, from the western shores of Mexico, through the United States, and into northeastern Canada. For the eclipse, NASA helped fund numerous research projects and called upon citizen scientists in support of NASA’s goal to understand how our home planet is affected by the […]
Posted December 10, 2024
Ocean Worlds
Planetary Science
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
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Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs of life and potentially habitable bodies in our solar system and beyond. The prime destinations for such exploration are bodies containing liquid water, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Posted December 3, 2024
Exoplanets
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
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By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these form. Key Facts An international team of scientists used the NASA space telescope, TESS […]
Posted November 26, 2024
Comets
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer)
Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
Stars
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)
The Sun
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Venus
Volcanoes
Wind Mission
With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar system. However, the fleet’s constant watch and often-unique perspectives sometimes create opportunities to make discoveries that no one expected, helping us to solve mysteries about of the solar system and beyond.
Posted November 20, 2024
Physical Sciences
Physical Sciences Program
Science & Research
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Since its ​launch​​​ in 2014, ​the ​Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) ​system ​has served as NASA’s online repository for physical science data.
Posted October 24, 2024
Astrobiology
Europa
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The following expedition marks the third installment of NASA Astrobiology’s fieldwork series, the newly rebranded Our Alien Earth, streaming on NASA+.
Posted August 24, 2024
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