Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Veil Nebula, which was featured in a previous ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe.

On a clear night, you might see thousands of stars in the sky. Most of these stars are dozens or hundreds of light years away from us. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a year: ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert ...

This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 6,000 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. When you select a planet’s name, see ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2005, on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for long periods of time. While other Mars missions ...

Eyes on Voyager This near real-time 3D data visualization uses actual spacecraft and planet positions to show the location of both Voyager 1 and 2 and many other spacecraft exploring our galactic ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale ...

In the fall of 2011, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission released its original Tour of the Moon, a five-minute animation that takes the viewer on a virtual tour of our nearest neighbor in ...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years away in the constellation ...

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over ...

Shackleton Crater is an impact crater that lies at the lunar South Pole. While peaks along the crater's rim are exposed to almost continual sunlight, the interior is perpetually in shadow. This is ...