A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as ...

Hubble caught a feast in action. A dense, nearby white dwarf star is snacking on a fragment of an icy Pluto-like object.

On Thursday, March 16th, Open Science hosted the 2023 Analysis Working Group (AWG) Symposium from 10 am – 2:30 pm Pacific Time. The theme focused around The ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23 to study the heliosphere, a giant shield created by the Sun.

Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) has both a camera and a spectrograph that sees light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. As the only ...

One of the challenges many teachers face year after year is a sense of working alone. Despite the constant interaction with students many questions often ...

International Observe the Moon Night is on October 4, 2025, this year– but you can observe the Moon whenever it's up, day or night! While binoculars and ...

The AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response) investigation will use organ-on-a-chip devices, or organ chips, to study the effects of deep space radiation and microgravity on human health.

Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space 2 were to explore the Martian south pole, but they were lost on landing due to a malfunction.

Organ chips have been used on Earth and in space to study many other human organs and tissues, including the brain, liver, heart, lung, and many more. This is the first time personalized organ chips, ...

This Hubble image features an emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years away.

After more than three decades associated with or directly employed by NASA, Steve Platnick stepped down effective August 8, 2025. Steve began ...