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  • NASA Wins Six Webby Awards, Six Webby People’s Voice Awards
    22 April 2025, 9:13 pm
    NASA was recognized today by the 29th Annual Webby Awards with six Webby Awards and six Webby People’s Voice Awards, the latter of which are awarded by the voting public. The Webbys honors excellence in eight major media types: websites and mobile sites; video and film; advertising, media and public relations; apps and software; social; podcasts; artificial intelligence, […]

  • Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus
    22 April 2025, 8:50 pm
    When a planet’s orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it’s more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It’s an opportunity for NASA to improve its understanding of that planet’s atmosphere and rings. Planetary scientists call it a stellar occultation and that’s exactly what happened with Uranus on April 7. […]

  • First Results from the Eclipse Soundscapes Project: Webinar on May 7
    22 April 2025, 6:52 pm
    How do the sudden darkness and temperature changes of a solar eclipse impact life on Earth? The Eclipse Soundscapes project invited you to document changes in the environment during the week of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, using your own senses or an audiomoth sound recorder.  Thanks to your participation, the Eclipse Soundscapes […]

  • Sunshine on Earth
    22 April 2025, 6:26 pm
    The Sun’s glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025. The space station serves as a unique platform for observing Earth with both hands-on and automated equipment. Station crew members have produced hundreds of thousands of images, recording phenomena […]

  • Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System
    22 April 2025, 5:04 pm
    Our solar system has eight planets, and five officially recognized dwarf planets. Which planet is biggest? Which is smallest? What is the order of the planets as we move out from the Sun? This is a simple guide to the sizes of planets based on the equatorial diameter – or width – at the equator […]

  • Animal That Once Lived With Dinosaurs Helps Keep NASA Kennedy In Balance
    22 April 2025, 4:03 pm
    They’re known as “living fossils”. For over 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have been an ecologically vital part of our planet. They’re one of the few surviving species on Earth dating back to the dinosaurs. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is one of more than 1,500 types […]

  • Entrepreneurs Challenge Winner PRISM is Using AI to Enable Insights from Geospatial Data
    22 April 2025, 3:00 pm
    NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to invite small business start-ups to showcase innovative ideas and technologies with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals. To potentially leverage external funding sources for the development of innovative technologies of interest to NASA, SMD involved the venture capital community in Entrepreneurs Challenge […]

  • NASA Tests Ultralight Antennas to Benefit Future National Airspace
    22 April 2025, 2:14 pm
    NASA engineers are using one of the world’s lightest solid materials to construct an antenna that could be embedded into the skin of an aircraft, creating a more aerodynamic and reliable communication solution for drones and other future air transportation options.  Developed by NASA, this ultra-lightweight aerogel antenna is designed to enable satellite communications where […]

  • NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell
    21 April 2025, 11:16 pm
    Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and operates NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission to explore […]

  • NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson
    21 April 2025, 7:56 pm
    In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million years ago. The spacecraft has begun returning images that were collected as it flew approximately 600 miles (960 km) from the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The asteroid was […]

NASA Image of the Day

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  • Sunshine on Earth
    22 April 2025, 6:28 pm
    The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025.

  • Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star
    21 April 2025, 7:41 pm
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as intricate clumps of dust. It’s also easier to see holes punched through the bright pink central region.

  • Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula
    18 April 2025, 9:32 pm
    This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 light-years distant from Earth, this dusty sculpture is refreshed with the use of new processing techniques.

  • Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off
    17 April 2025, 10:27 pm
    The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The seven-member crew lifted off at 8:59 a.m. ET, April 12, 1985.

  • Scrub Jay at the Vehicle Assembly Building
    16 April 2025, 11:08 pm
    A scrub jay perches on a branch near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2020.

  • Testing NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
    15 April 2025, 6:08 pm
    On March 18, 2025, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for thermal vacuum testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF), which simulates the harsh conditions of space.

  • Sculpted by Luminous Stars
    14 April 2025, 8:23 pm
    This new image showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have released images of NGC 346 previously, this image includes new data and is the first to combine Hubble observations made at infrared, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths into an intricately detailed view of this vibrant star-forming factory.

  • Apollo 13 Launch: 55 Years Ago
    11 April 2025, 5:59 pm
    NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launch aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 11, 1970.

  • Linear Sand Dunes in the Great Sandy Desert
    10 April 2025, 5:49 pm
    In northwest Australia, the Great Sandy Desert holds great geological interest as a zone of active sand dune movement. While a variety of dune forms appear across the region, this astronaut photograph features numerous linear dunes (about 25 meters high) separated in a roughly regular fashion (0.5 to 1.5 kilometers apart).

  • Expedition 73 Crew Launches to International Space Station
    9 April 2025, 8:42 pm
    A Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 73 crew members aboard, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

  • Sixty Years in Canberra: NASA’s Deep Space Network
    8 April 2025, 9:36 pm
    This March 4, 2020, image shows Deep Space Station 43, a 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia. The facility celebrated its 60th anniversary on March 19, 2025, while also breaking ground on a new radio antenna. The pair of achievements are major milestones for the network, which communicates with spacecraft all over the solar system using giant dish antennas located at three complexes around the globe.

  • Gateway’s First Habitation Module Arrives Stateside
    7 April 2025, 7:21 pm
    From the mountains of Turin to the deserts of Arizona, a core element of Gateway, humanity’s first lunar space station, is now one step closer to the Moon.

  • NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim
    4 April 2025, 8:04 pm
    NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses for a portrait while wearing a spacesuit on July 17, 2024. In his first mission, Kim will serve as a flight engineer during Expedition 72/73 on the International Space Station.

  • Artemis II Insignia Honors All
    3 April 2025, 7:55 pm
    The four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon under NASA's Artemis campaign – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – have designed an emblem to represent their mission that references both their distant destination and the home they will return to.

  • X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet
    2 April 2025, 7:10 pm
    In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star’s life can be utterly beautiful – as is the case with this planetary nebula called the Helix Nebula. Astronomers study these objects by looking at all kinds of light. This images show X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (magenta), optical light data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (orange, light blue), infrared data from the European Southern Observatory VISTA telescope (gold, dark blue), and ultraviolet data from GALEX (purple) of the Helix Nebula.

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  • Astronomers discover a planet that's rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail
    22 April 2025, 7:13 pm
    A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals as it whizzes around its star.

  • Did it rain or snow on ancient Mars? New study suggests it did
    21 April 2025, 10:31 pm
    Geologists weigh in on a long-running debate about Mars: Billions of years ago, was the Red Planet warm and wet or cold and dry?

  • Turning down starlight to spot new exoplanets
    19 April 2025, 5:55 am
    Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars.

  • Scientists probe the mystery of Titan's missing deltas
    18 April 2025, 7:37 pm
    New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn's moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river deltas, raising new questions about the surface dynamics on this alien world.

  • Curiosity rover finds large carbon deposits on Mars
    17 April 2025, 8:49 pm
    Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars.

  • Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system
    17 April 2025, 2:40 am
    Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious.

  • Ever wonder why some meteor showers are so unpredictable?
    16 April 2025, 9:21 pm
    Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the kick they receive from a moving Sun.

  • 'Big surprise': Astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars
    16 April 2025, 9:19 pm
    Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a stellar pair.

  • The most distant twin of the Milky Way ever observed
    16 April 2025, 7:57 pm
    An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably mature structure, with a central old bulge, a large star-forming disk, and well-defined spiral arms. The discovery was made using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and offers important insights into how galaxies can form and evolve so rapidly in the early Universe.

  • 'Cosmic radio' could find dark matter in 15 years
    16 April 2025, 7:53 pm
    Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years.

  • On Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down
    16 April 2025, 12:34 am
    Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real process associated with fierce lightning storms: strong updrafts generate slushy, ice-coated hailstones of ammonia and water that eventually plunge into the planet and deplete areas of ammonia. This is part of the first 3D picture of the planet's atmosphere, which shows storms are primarily shallow.

  • Molten Martian core could explain red planet's magnetic quirks
    15 April 2025, 8:35 pm
    First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously, its imprint is strongest in the southern hemisphere. Researchers found that Mars could have produced a one-sided magnetic field with a fully molten core, rather than the traditional, Earth-like solid inner core setup.

  • Mysterious atmosphere of 'Rosetta Stone' exoplanet
    15 April 2025, 8:34 pm
    A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is only 73 light years from Earth and could serve as a 'Rosetta Stone' for understanding an entire class of new planets.

  • Scientists may have solved a puzzling space rock mystery
    14 April 2025, 6:47 pm
    Researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions -- and it could change our understanding of how life began. Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less than 5 per cent of meteorites found on Earth.

  • From boring to bursting: Giant black hole awakens
    11 April 2025, 4:59 pm
    Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to learn more about these powerful events and the mysterious behavior of massive black holes.