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Webb is the world’s first space deployable telescope. But in order for the telescope to do its remarkable work, it had to be sent to a specific location in space.

NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are busy exploring Mars, one-tenth-scale buildable models are touching down in homes around the globe.

Astronauts, mission controllers, and scientists rely on a communications network to transmit messages and commands.

Members of the public are invited to add their names to an original poem dedicated to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission before the spacecraft begins its journey to Jupiter’s moon.

Power systems that utilize spinning rotors take advantage of dense atmospheres, utilizing drag forces to generate electrical power.

Geologists studying Mars rely on names on a map to understand the landscape and communicate about the area.

For the first twenty years of human spaceflight, no astronaut had spent a Fourth of July in space.

From the oxygen and potassium that help fireworks burn to the aluminum that makes sparklers sparkle, most of the elements in the universe were produced by the stars.

Growing endothelial cells in microgravity is an accurate way to test the effects and toxicity of new vessel-targeting drugs.

This air quality sensor that measures air quality here on Earth was first developed to measure lunar dust.

The solar cells, engines, radiators, and heat exchangers on the European-built Service Module are an essential part of Artemis missions.

Astronauts on the International Space Station report that music in space sounds just like it does on Earth but playing the instrument may not be as easy as you think.

Artemis II is a bold mission. This crew of four astronauts will lift off on a 10-day mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, blazing atop NASA’s mega Moon rocket, the Space Launch System.

While the date for the summer solstice may fluctuate, Midsummer Day has been traditionally fixed on the calendar as June 24th.

NASA is working to create a magnetic coupler, a device that could be used for transferring fuels on space missions.

From June’s strawberry moon to the summer solstice, many of us will look to the skies to mark the turning of the seasons this month.

Because the spacecraft doesn’t have a fuel gauge, engineers have to rely on math to help Odyssey continue its remarkable legacy.

You may have wanted to give your dad the universe for Father’s Day, but for some, a bird’s eye view of space is really what they got!

These inoculated trees are another NASA spinoff that brought space technology down to Earth.

Robots can do some of the jobs that might be too dangerous or too repetitive for humans and perform in places that humans can’t survive.