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A new Sun-centered and science-focused coloring book produced by NASA in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is now available for people to learn while showing their artistic side.

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium metal vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than the ion engine on the Psyche mission.

Thirty-eight science educators representing seven school districts across Virginias Tidewater region joined forces with community organizations, such as the Elizabeth River Project, to deepen their instructional practice...

Voyager Technologies says it is ready should NASA change plans for supporting development of commercial space stations.

Vantor executive: We have more imagery, more sensors but much of that data still isnt reaching the people who need it

You could spend hours scrolling through the thousands of photos just released by NASA from the Artemis 2 moon mission.

Description NASAs Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region nicknamed Crocodile Bridge on Jezero Craters rim. The panorama is made up of 980 images, 971 of w...

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, May 1, 2026 Chiles Atacama desert is the driest mid-latitude desert in the world, receiving only 15 millimeters ...

A video captured by a newly launched SpaceX Starlink satellite shows us what it's like to zoom above our beautiful blue planet.

When Lt. Gen. Michele Bredenkamp takes the stage for the closing keynote at GEOINT Wednesday, it will mark her first as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - a role she assumed with little f...

The Subaru Telescope observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) on January 7, 2026 (UT), after it made its closest approach to the Sun. By observing colors in the coma around the comet, astronomers could estima...

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don't completely understand when or how our moon first formed. They do agre...

Divergent Space platform would automate imagery requests across multiple providers

After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects have co-authored peer-reviewed research papers with scientists ...

A new paper from NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the pro...

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Thebe, the second largest of Jupiter's inner moons, during a close pass on May 1, 2026. The spacecraft's Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) captured this image from a di...

A trans-Neptunian object was found to possess a surprising thin atmosphere after astronomers witnessed the object occult a distant star.

Description This series of images shows NASAs Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm and, after waving the arm and running the drill a few times, finally detached the rock....

This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, and-after waving the arm and running the drill a few times-finally detached the rock. The ima...

Blue Origin's MK1 moon lander has passed its tests in the vacuum chamber as NASA continues to develop the hardware needed to return astronauts to the moon.

EarthDaily Analytics and UAE-backed Altair highlight shift toward constellations as a service

Chaos Manufacturing CEO Guy Costantini and aerospace engineer Taylore McClurg tell us about the process of creating a believable but striking lunar adventure.