Kepler-1649c: Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Hides in Plain Sight
A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where…
NASA Releases Concept Images of All-Electric X-57 in Final Configuration
This artist’s concept image shows NASA’s first all-electric X-plane, the X-57 Maxwell, flying shortly after takeoff in its final configuration over NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. In…
Hubble Probes Colorful Galaxy
This image displays a swirling spiral galaxy named NGC 2906. The blue speckles seen scattered across this galaxy are clusters of massive, young stars, which emit hot, blue-tinged radiation as…
The World According to Weather Satellites
On April 1, 1960, NASA’s first operational weather satellite, TIROS-1, launched from Cape Canaveral. This multimedia storymap looks at the value and importance of the nation’s weather satellites and game-changing…
NASA Data Aids Ozone Hole’s Journey to Recovery
On Sept. 16, 1987, policymakers and scientists from around the world gathered at the International Civil Aviation Organization’s headquarters in Montreal, preparing to take action on the day’s most urgent…