Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Veil Nebula, which was featured in a previous ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe.

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble — one for the ring and ...

On a clear night, you might see thousands of stars in the sky. Most of these stars are dozens or hundreds of light years away from us. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a year: ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. An urban heat island occurs when a city experiences much warmer temperatures than nearby rural areas. The difference ...

This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 6,000 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. When you select a planet’s name, see ...

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over ...

Shackleton Crater is an impact crater that lies at the lunar South Pole. While peaks along the crater's rim are exposed to almost continual sunlight, the interior is perpetually in shadow. This is ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one ...

This is an artist's impression of a runaway supermassive black hole that was ejected from its host galaxy as a result of a tussle between it and two other black holes. As the black hole plows through ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Eclipses occur on our planet when the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up. Exactly how they align determines what kind of ...