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NASA scientists are keeping an eye on astronauts while looking for countermeasures to safeguard the eyesight of future explorers.

From supernovae to massive black holes, the James Webb Telescope is playing a unique and profound role in transforming our understanding of astrophysics.

This company is putting a spin on NASA technology that brings cars to a stop.

Dragonfly has moved far beyond a concept on a computer screen.

NASA and its international partners have surpassed twenty-five years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station.

A new sonification technique changes the haunting tune this black hole is playing.

For this year’s class of astronaut candidates, the tough job has just begun.

At age seventy-seven, John Glenn became the oldest person to enter Earth orbit, and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs.

Thanks to a robust design with redundant systems, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft remains on track for an on-time arrival in August 2029 at its target asteroid.

As NASA prepares to head to the Moon and Mars, understanding the human immune system is critical to astronaut safety.

Through careful land management and conservation efforts, NASA protects horseshoe crabs and their habitats at Earth’s premiere spaceport.

The similarity between a gel diffusion system to create crystals for semiconductors and the way crystals form in teeth and bones led to the development of a spinoff toothpaste that restores teeth.

The brightness of planets and stars is measured in terms of apparent magnitude, or how bright they appear from Earth.

These panoramic images showcase the curving Martian landscape below gauzy layers of clouds and dust.

Working with composer Sophie Kastner, a NASA team has developed astronomical sonification data that can be played by musicians.

The mountains in Colorado are playing a critical role in future Artemis missions.

The first images from NISAR offer an exciting preview of the science-to-come as the joint mission approaches full operations later this year.

AVATAR will gather strategic scientific data during the Artemis II mission, helping us ‘know-before-we-go’ farther into space.

With several blows of a ten-pound sledgehammer, researchers tested a method to find subsurface caves that could serve as safe underground habitats on the Moon and Mars.

In the race to return to the Moon, decades of expertise and a road paved with superchips are ensuring Artemis II is ready for launch in 2026.