Red dots are the Orionids, blue dots are the Taurids meteor showers. Electronic Telegram No. 5758 Central Bureau for ...

This week, we see Earth’s auroras, a spacecraft’s view of our planet, and a pioneering photograph of the Orion Nebula.

An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist's rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

We explore how we observe changing worlds and skies, from the dark skies above Paranal and the shifting waters of the ...

Hurricane Melissa swirls south of Jamaica in this view captured from the International Space Station in October 2025. As Earth experiences a strong El Niño, satellites are helping scientists ...

Dr. He is a SETI Postdoctoral Research Fellow and previously a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow, working on the Kepler Reprocessing Project. His office remains at the NASA Ames Research Center.

Research Interest: Dr. Pavithraa Sundararajan is an experimental Astrochemist, currently a NASA Postdoctoral (NPP) Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Sundararajan’s current research focus at the ...

A stony meteorite in NASA Ames Research Center's Arcjet Interaction Heating Facility. A thin black line outlines the holder that supports the stone (left). Air flow is from left to right. Melt flows ...

Figure 1: A giant volcano hiding in plain sight in one of Mars’ most iconic regions. The newly discovered giant volcano on Mars is located just south of the planet’s equator, in Eastern Noctis ...

April 1, 2026, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute announced today that Dr. Lori Marino will receive the 2026 Drake Award, continuing its tradition of celebrating contributions to the search for ...

Visible in this observation is a section of Cerberus Fossae, Mars (width approximately 250 meters), which comprises a series of rifts located in Elysium Planitia just north of the Martian equator. The ...