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Now amateur astronomers can join NASA in celebrating Hubble's thirty-five years of eyes on the universe by looking through their own telescopes.

Decades ago, NASA designed a new type of liquid battery to supply a steady source of electricity when power is a challenge.

Teams are finding ways to improve how NASA builds spacecraft, and they're using augmented reality to get the job done.

Watching lightning on Earth is fascinating. But watching it from space can be scientifically enlightening.

As NASA plans for humans to return to the Moon or explore Mars, laser beams could be a key to assembling large structures or making repairs in space.

If you look to the sky, June is filled with astronomical delights.

A NASA balloon made a trip around the world in just sixteen days.

NASA is teaming up with the commercial sector to bring discoveries home from space.

Sometimes noctilucent clouds on Mars create a rainbow of colors, producing iridescent, or mother-of-pearl clouds.

These tiny but tough life forms may help astronauts survive in the harsh environment of space.

From astronauts to engineers, people at NASA have some interesting traditions to mark successful launches. But none may be as famous as Norm Carlson's Launch Beans.

As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, researchers are turning lunar dust into a lifeline.

A year after a geomagnetic storm that created auroras seen as far south as Texas, scientists are still making discoveries about its surprising effects.

Astrobee has been wrapping its arms around objects on the International Space Station.

NASA is transforming how we see the skies.

What is a black hole?

NASA's official lunar landing requirement is to land within fifty meters, or one hundred sixty-four feet of a targeted site.

ELF-5 is improving materials used for smartphone screens and space habitats by testing these materials in space.

Volcanoes often give subtle hints before they erupt.

A flyby of Mars gave Europa Clipper an opportunity to calibrate its infrared imaging instrument.

The efficient movement of large amounts of oxygen over long distances could help sustain a permanent human presence on the Moon.

Researchers are evaluating the feasibility of using a stratospheric platform in wildland fire scenarios.

It was the Monday after Mother's Day in 2009 when Atlantis lifted off from Launch Pad 39A to rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Norway has now become the fifty-fifth nation to officially join the Artemis Accords.

Among the fallen heroes who bravely served our country, visitors to Arlington National Cemetery will find memorials to some of the men and women who gave their lives in the pursuit of space.

Using shape memory alloys for spring tires on the Moon or Mars could prevent the deformation seen in most traditional materials.

Actively looking for new uses for ideas developed with the space program in mind ensures that agency investments benefit the nation and the world.

MSOLO will head back to the Moon to search for gases trapped beneath the lunar surface.

Living in space causes changes to an astronaut's eyes.

Artificial intelligence software initially designed to learn and analyze Martian terrain is now at the heart of a system to monitor assembly lines on Earth.

Data from NASA's Juno mission collected during close flybys of Io, have revealed how volcanoes on this moon are fed.

NASA has helped reinvent car brakes.

An ancient creature that once lived with dinosaurs helps keep NASA's Kennedy Space Center in balance.

Our solar system is made up of eight planets of varying sizes that orbit one star, the Sun.

Oral histories highlight NASA projects and programs that succeeded, while others look at what resulted in failure.

Astronaut Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday by returning home after 220 days on the International Space Station.

Europa Clipper has a long way to go before reaching Jupiter's orbit in 2030.

Collecting rocks and studying dirt after successfully landing on other worlds is an important part of understanding each unique environment.

An Early Career Faculty grant, awarded to Purdue University through the Space Technology Research Grants Program, could help shape the future of light-sailing technologies.

Both astronauts and robots will need power on the Moon. Solar power just isn't an option in permanently shaded regions.

A fully operational R2 is now displayed standing with arms and legs extended as it looks straight at Discovery's starboard side.

Astronauts on the International Space Station are experimenting with plants that both flower and produce an edible crop.