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.
NASA’s Perseverance captured the bands of rocks formed by a very fast, deep river
Curved bands of rocks at 'Skrinkle Haven'.
The warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut
Astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the...
Webb finds water vapor around a rocky exoplanet
Water vapor in an atmosphere on a hot rocky planet would represent a major breakthrough for exoplanet science.
NASA’s instrument images of the Lunar south pole region
Furthering our understanding of the geotechnical properties of the Moon.
NASA successfully extract oxygen from a lunar soil model
This was the first time that this extraction has been done in a vacuum environment.
First direct image of a black hole expelling a powerful jet
For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier...
Asteroid’s comet-like tail is not made of dust
A weird asteroid has just gotten a little weirder.
Nasa’s new 3d-printed superalloy can handle high temperatures
A 3D printable alloy designed for environments.
NASA’S Chandra identified a new stellar danger to planets
An exploded star can pose more risks to nearby planets than previously thought.
Study explains the mystery of ‘smooth terrains’ on icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn
Icy moonquakes: Surface shaking could trigger landslides.
A galaxy with tendrils
The galaxy lies almost 600 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans.
Hubble discovers a double Quasar in the distant Universe
They existed when the universe was just 3 billion years old.