December’s Night Sky Notes: Spot the King of Planets

4 min read December’s Night Sky Notes: Spot the King of Planets by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Jupiter is...

Thanksgiving Celebrations in Space

The Thanksgiving holiday typically brings families and friends together in a celebration of common gratitude for all the good things that ha...

John Herrington Performs a Spacewalk

NASA On Nov. 30, 2002, NASA astronauts John Herrington (pictured) and Michael Lopez-Alegria performed the third and final spacewal...

NASA Plane Supported Innovative Microgravity Research in ‘90s

NASA Lewis Research Center’s DC-9 commences one of its microgravity-producing parabolas in the fall of 1994. It was the center’s larges...

Discovery Alert: a ‘Hot Neptune’ in a Tight Orbit

Artist’s concept of “hot Neptune” TOI-3261 b. NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A ...

This Thanksgiving, We’re Grateful for NASA’s Amateur Scientists!

FjordPhyto participants playing in an incredible phytoplankton bloom surrounded by early season sea ice at Damoy on the Antarctic Penin...

NASA Ames Stars of the Month: November 2024

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Forrest Melton, Ariel Deutsch,...