Science

In this image taken in 1985, four members of the Challenger STS-51L crew train on the flight deck of the shuttle crew compartment.

This object is, in fact, a pair: a white dwarf star that steadily burns at a relatively cool temperature and a highly variable red...

Astronaut Mark Vande Hei peers at the Earth below from inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's window...

This artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star.

This image from 2020 shows a flame that was one of many ignited as part of the Flame Design investigation on the space station.

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a portion of the reflection nebula IC 2631, which contains a protostar, the hot, dense...

In this image, the COWVR and TEMPEST instruments are shown in the trunk of the cargo craft.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021.

Legendary actor and diplomat, Sidney Poitier, visited JPL in 1979.

This image shows the Highfield drill hole, on Vera Rubin Ridge in Gale crater on Mars, made by NASA’s Curiosity rover in its search...

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a side-on view of NGC 3568, a barred spiral galaxy roughly 57 million...

Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is rolled out to the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23,...

2021 saw significant milestones achieved in the assembly of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft (QueSST), and all eyes...

Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak.

Retired U.S. Air Force Honorary Brigadier General Charles McGee, left, spoke with NASA astronaut Alvin Drew in 2020.