The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the first space telescope to use an “active coronagraph” to block out unwanted starlight.

Mars as viewed by Psyche as it continued its mission through the solar system. Credit: NASA. At first, Mars was little more than a curved blade of light suspended in darkness. As NASA’s Psyche ...

Explore 25 active NASA missions currently operating in space, from Mars rovers to deep-space telescopes. Discover ...

Artist’s rendition of the Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer (DAPHNE) mission concept. The coloring represents auroras and atmospheric waves in Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Laboratory for ...

Fingers crossed for clear skies in August, as the season's major astronomical events all seem to be clustered in that single month!

The Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer, or DAPHNE, mission will study the interaction between space weather and the Earth's atmosphere. Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/Mary ...

A veteran spacecraft has sniffed the Martian atmosphere for the last time. More than a decade after the MAVEN orbiter arrived at Mars and six months after it unexpectedly went quiet, NASA has ...

NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicated to studying the ...

NASA will fly low over Houston this month to study the atmosphere and coast as part of its Student Airborne Research Program. This program, an eight-week internship for undergraduate students seeking ...

Jupiter does not sit still. Its atmosphere races around the planet in more than 20 east-west jet streams, with winds reaching about 100 meters per second, more than three times faster than the ...