Magnetic fields go in, energy comes out. Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process of nature that happens all across our…
Astronomers have observed the debris field from this explosion − what is now known as Tycho’s supernova remnant − using…
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne survey of polar ice, has returned from the Umanaq B mission along Greenland’s western coast. This…
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 11, about 261…
This week in 2009, the fifth and final space shuttle mission to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched. Space shuttle Atlantis…
ESA astronaut Tim Peake photographed the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft as it undocked from the International Space Station on May…
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, met with new Italian Ambassador Armando Varricchio, right, at NASA Headquarters on Monday, May 9,…
NASA Ames / N. Batalha and W. Stenzel
This composite image of Mercury’s 2016 transit was created with visible-light images from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on NASA’s…
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the clouds over Canada on May 9, 2016. Entwined within the clouds is…