NASA's science data archives continually enable new scientific discoveries, with over 50% of scientific publications relying on archival data.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster Abell 209, located 2.8 billion light-years away in the constellation Cetus.

These images from NASA's Hubble and Webb telescopes showcase an expanse of gas, dust, and stars of a duo of star clusters.

Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter falls in. But other black holes secretly ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun ...

July is the 60th anniversary of the first successful flyby of Mars, by NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft in 1965. Mariner 4 sent back the first photos of another planet from deep space, along with the ...

NASA Update on the Size Estimate and Lunar Impact Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 Since near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered in December 2024, NASA and the worldwide planetary defense ...

Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 As we near the end of our Altadena drill campaign, ...

The Discovery A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has two planets which orbit their star in a unique style, like ...

The Sun releases a constant stream of particles and magnetic fields called the solar wind. This solar wind slams worlds across the solar system with particles and radiation – which can stream all the ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars, then Earth, using the gravity of each planet as a slingshot to boost the spacecraft's speed. toward Jupiter's moon, Europa.

The galaxy JW100 (lower right) features prominently in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The streams of star-forming gas dripping from the disk of the galaxy like streaks of fresh ...