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Are dark galaxies hiding in the nearby universe?

New simulations suggest our nearby universe could contain many dark galaxies, containing dark matter but no stars. And our radio telescopes could detect them. The post Are dark gal...

Satellites swarm the night sky in this new video

Alan Dyer shared this new video as satellites swarm across the sky, obscuring the summer Milky Way. Read more about Alan's video here. The post Satellites swarm the night sky in th...

Visible planets and night sky guide for June

Visible planets and night sky guide. Look west this evening after sunset for the young moon close to brilliant Venus. Jupiter and Mercury shine in the west, too. The post Visible p...

ESA Impact: a look at ESA’s spring milestones

ESA Impact: a look at ESA’s spring milestones

Sun news: Fiery sunspot region departs from view

Sun news for June 17, 2026: The sun is taking a break, with very low flare activity. But a departing sunspot region in the southwest remained fiery. The post Sun news: Fiery sunspo...

Noctilucent clouds are back: Look for them now!

Noctilucent clouds are back. The season is underway! Learn about these stunning night-shining clouds and how to see them. Plus, see a gallery of them here. The post Noctilucent clo...

Dozens of dust devils hidden in plain sight

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured part of Mars’s Mamers Valles: a fascinating valley system speckled with brief, tornado-like whirlwinds known as dust devils.

Low Water at San Carlos Reservoir

Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.

NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted

One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the m...

Astronaut Jessica Meir Assists With Hardware Updates for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab

Description NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on M...

NASA Webb, Hubble Reveal History of Relic of Milky Way’s Formation

Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star clust...

Webb & Hubble reveal relic of our galaxy’s formation

Researchers have confirmed a new class of objects within our Milky Way galaxy: survivors called 'bulge fossil fragments.' Terzan 5 is the prototype of these remnants of our galaxy'...

NASA’s Quantum Lab Aboard Space Station Gets Chilly Upgrade

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA’s newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fund...

NASA Uses Machine Learning to Enhance Flash Flood Warnings

The Transient Artifact and Continuous Learning System (TACLS) leverages data from continuously operating satellite networks coupled with machine learning models to help meteorologi...

Department of Health and Human Services Digital Stockpile & Manufacturing Response Network Challenge

NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract...

Metrics

Services Catalog Click here to view the FY26 Services Catalog The catalogs provide service description, chargeback rate, unit of measure, and service level indicators for each NSSC...

Aurora Australis

The aurora australis arcs over Earth during an active solar event in this photograph taken at approximately 11:32 p.m. local time from the International Space Station as it orbited...

Aurora Australis

The aurora australis arcs over Earth during an active solar event in this photograph taken on June 5, 2026, from the International Space Station as it orbited 271 miles above the I...

Dinosaur-killing asteroid created an abode for life

Scientists have new evidence that the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth created a hydrothermal habitat that lasted for 8 million years. The post Dinosaur-killing asteroid...

Astro quiz: Test your night sky know-how here!

How well do you know the night sky? Test your know-how of stars, constellations and more with this fun astro quiz. Enjoy! The post Astro quiz: Test your night sky know-how here! fi...

The Crow, Cup and Water Snake in June skies

Use the bright star Spica to help you find the Crow, Cup and Water Snake. And learn the mythology behind these constellations. The post The Crow, Cup and Water Snake in June skies...

Nebraska’s Wide, Rolling Domain

The Nebraska Sandhills—the largest system of sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere—stretch across about one-quarter of the state.

Explore JPL to Take Place Oct. 10, 11

Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California for an...

San Francisco's Patchwork Streets

A period of unsettled weather brought scattered showers and thunderstorms to California’s Bay Area on May 27, 2026. That afternoon, a break in the clouds left downtown San Francisc...

Glowworms turn cave ceilings into underground starscapes

Glowworms turn dark New Zealand caves into beautiful starscapes all year round. They use their elegant but deadly displays to trap their prey. The post Glowworms turn cave ceilings...

Watch live: bigger booster, more powerful Ariane 6 launch

Pacific warming signals El Niño has stirred

Black Eye Galaxy

Easily identified by the spectacular band of dark dust that partially obscures its bright core, Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy, is characterized by its bizarre internal motion...

Week in images: 08-12 June 2026

Week in images: 08-12 June 2026 Discover our week through the lens

Mission Control | Keeping Columbus Running 24/7 | ESA Explores #19

Video: 00:17:20 Step inside the Columbus Control Centre near Munich, Germany, and discover what it takes to keep ESA's Columbus laboratory running—24 hours a day, 365 days a year...

Earth from Space: Buenos Aires

Image: This radar image from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission captures Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, the surrounding countryside and the Rio de la Plata estuary. Zoom in...

Mercury is farthest from the sunset on June 15

The innermost planet, Mercury, will be 18 degrees from the sun at greatest elongation at 18 UTC on February 19. Look for it shortly after sunset near Venus. The post Mercury is far...

Venus-Jupiter conjunction: Sky’s 2 brightest planets meet

Did you see the Venus-Jupiter conjunction? The planets are still close together and putting on a show in the west after sunset. Read more here. The post Venus-Jupiter conjunction...

I Am Artemis: Elkin Norena

Listen to this audio excerpt from Elkin Norena, resident management officer, NASA’s Space Launch System Program: NASA’s Elkin Norena has helped the agency launch more than a dozen...

Soccer Meets Space Science

Researchers tested soccer balls aboard the International Space Station to study how internal mass affects motion and stability in microgravity.

NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High Desert

Equipped with rock picks and hand lenses, a team of geoscientists deployed to the Mojave Desert recently to investigate a tantalizing “fingerprint” detected by a NASA sensor. Their...

Earliest sunrises come before the summer solstice

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, your earliest sunrises of the year are happening around now. Earliest sunsets are in the Southern Hemisphere. The post Earliest sunrises com...

ESA science missions get green light for new discoveries

On 10–11 June, representatives from European Space Agency (ESA) Member States met in Tenerife to make far-reaching decisions about the future of ESA’s Science Programme. Their deci...

ESA adopts galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Science Programme Committee has adopted the Arrakihs mission. Planned for launch by the end of 2030, Arrakihs will capture the faint light from ne...

Train Ride to NASA Kennedy for Artemis III Booster Segments

A train transports eight booster motor segments for the SLS (Space Launch System rocket) that will power NASA’s Artemis III mission from Northrop Grumman’s Railyard Shipping Facili...

NASA’s CloudCube Pioneers Miniaturized Radar to Study Clouds, Precipitation

A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make it easier to collect information about dynamic cloud systems. Called CloudCube, this n...

Artemis III Crew Announced

NASA announced the Artemis III crew on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, mission specialist; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, pilot; NASA as...

Artemis III Crew Announced

NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, and NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio take a photo together on June 9, 2026. The fou...

NASA Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027, Names Crew Members

Taking another step toward one of the most complex human spaceflight missions in recent history, NASA on Tuesday provided new Artemis III details and announced the four prime crew...

Supersonic!

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first supersonic flight Friday, June 5, 2026, marking the first time the aircraft exceeded the speed of sound in suppor...

NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Research Continues on Earth

Results from Artemis II’s science investigations will help support safe human exploration of deep space and provide a blueprint for how future missions will conduct science on the...

First Steps: America’s Grueling Second Spacewalk

A year after America’s first spacewalk, Gemini IX-A Eugene Cernan stepped outside his spacecraft for an ambitious extravehicular activity scheduled for 167 minutes. The challenges...

Webb unveils young stars across every stage of formation

Image: Webb unveils young stars across every stage of formation

Colorful, Chaotic Jupiter

During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet's northern hemisphere.

A Moonlit Earth as Seen From Artemis II

An astronaut’s photo, taken en route to the Moon, reveals our planet and its place in space in a novel way.

Journey to the Center of the Virgo Cluster

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88).

NASA Says Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission, Hosts Media Call Today

The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more than 11 years in orbit...

Big and Little Dippers in the northern sky on June evenings

The Big and Little Dippers are June sky favorites, with the Big Dipper’s Pointer stars leading the way to Polaris and the Little Dipper. The post Big and Little Dippers in the nort...

Look Up!

Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, look out a window in the cupola.

NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base

A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars departed the spaceport an...

Spacewalking With Scott Wray, Artemis EVA Training Lead

Scott Wray’s experience with spacewalks started when he was about 6 years old. A tent resembling a lunar lander provided the perfect imaginary spacecraft. “I would lie on my back w...

Smile: cleanroom to space

Video: 00:03:24 Smile successfully launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 19 May 2026. This timelapse captures the excitement and precision of launch operations as th...

Webb sniffs methane from interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Image: Webb's MIRI image of the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS in three different light wavelengths