Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

The Europa Clipper team deploys a 28-foot (8.5-meter) boom that will support the spacecraft's magnetometer sensors. To fit aboard the rocket, the boom will be stowed in a canister. It will deploy to ...

May - Cool as Ice Every winter, a layer of carbon dioxide frost (dry ice) forms on the surface of Mars. At its greatest extent in midwinter, this frost reaches from the poles down to the middle ...

The solar wind starts its journey at the Sun. It emanates from features on the Sun such as dark and cool regions called coronal holes and active regions, which are characterized by strong magnetic ...

Open Principles The principles of open science are to make publicly funded scientific research transparent, available, and reproducible. Advances in technology, including collaborative tools and cloud ...

Solar Flares A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation, or light, on the Sun. These flashes span the electromagnetic spectrum — including X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, and ultraviolet and ...

There’s no popping out to the hardware store for a different tool when you’re on the job in space. Engineers, working closely with astronauts as they trained for and worked on Hubble, developed ...

Below you will find examples of programs and scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students, internships for high school and college students, post-doctoral fellowships, special programs for ...

NASA offers a number of opportunities in the Research Opportunities for Space and Earth Science (ROSES) solicitation for support of Open Science projects. Explore the list below of those that are ...

On most nights, weather permitting, you can spot at least one bright planet in the night sky. While two or three planets are commonly visible in the hours around sunset, occasionally four or five ...

The Office of the Chief Science Data Officer (OCSDO) within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) plays a pivotal role in advancing transformative science. Established in 2021, the OCSDO focuses on ...