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This summer, NASA is launching rockets into some mysterious clouds.

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.