NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program and aeronautics and space research.
It was established in 1958. NASA’s Headquarters is in Washington, D.C.
Since its establishment, most U.S. space exploration efforts have been led by NASA, including the Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle.
Hubble Captures Cosmic Fireworks in Ultraviolet
Hubble offers a special view of the double star system Eta Carinae’s expanding gases glowing in red, white, and blue. This is the highest...
NASA’s TESS discovers the smallest exoplanet it has ever found
NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) spacecraft is continuing to find exoplanets frequently since it began operations and now it has discovered its smallest...
Hubble captures elusive, irregular galaxy
Recently Hubble captured an image of an irregular galaxy named IC 10, a losest-known starburst galaxy. The galaxy is experiencing a furious bout of...
Bumble became the first Astrobee robot to fly under its own power in space
Bumble, a cube-shaped free-flying robot, has become the first Astrobee robot to fly under its own power in space.
Such type of robots that can...
NASA selects two missions to study sun, its effects on space weather
NASA recently selected two new missions to study our sun and its dynamic effects on the space weather. One mission will study the sun's...
NASA’s Mars helicopter is getting close to final approval for launch
Science fiction is getting closer to reality folks! NASA is planning to send its Mars Helicopter, a part of Mars 2020 mission, to the...
An amazing new image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7773
The striking image you can see above was taken by the ESA (European Space Agency) that features a barrel spiral galaxy known as NGC...
Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth next week
Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System- is at its biggest and brightest this month. Next week,...
Parker Solar Probe helps solve sun’s super-heating mystery
For more than a half-century, since the problem of coronal heating was discovered in the 1940s, astronomers have tried to establish why the Sun's...
NASA chose the first three commercial companies for the Artemis program
On Friday, NASA has announced that it has selected three commercial Moon landing service providers to participate in its payload delivery service, as part...
NASA’s NICER recorded a map of the entire sky in X-rays
Recently, NASA has shared a stunning image of the entire sky in X-rays captured by NICER, a NASA Explorers program Mission of Opportunity dedicated...
Boeing successfully tested CST-100 Starliner’s entire propulsion system
On Thursday, at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, Boeing has completed ground testing of the thrusters for its CST-100 Starliner commercial...