On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection ...

Eye Safety During a Total Solar Eclipse Except during the brief total phase of a total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely blocks the Sun’s bright face, it is not safe to look directly at the Sun ...

Amendment 58: F.17 Research Initiation Awards Final Text and Due Date The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Research Initiation Awards (RIA) program aims to broaden the base of institutions ...

In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in ...

NASA Missions Track Record-Breaking Radio Burst from Sun When NASA scientists first observed a particular radio burst from the Sun in August 2025, there was nothing unusual about it. But then the ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region nicknamed “Crocodile Bridge” on Jezero ...

The TESS mission scans a wide swath of the sky, called a sector, for about a month at a time using its four cameras. These ...

The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized, transparent, and repeatable process for assessing the quality of ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on March 11, 2026, the 1,797th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, during the rover’s deepest push west ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of a rock nicknamed “Atacama” on May 6, ...

A aircraft completed a series of flights on April 29 over Central California to contribute new data to improve the accuracy ...