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These two bold missions will help uncover the clouded truths about the shrouded world of Venus.

The Vertical Assembly Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility houses the world’s largest welding tool, which was used to build the world’s biggest rocket.

The International Space Station’s orbit takes it all around the globe so you could be in the right place at the right time of the day as the station streaks across the sky.

NASA’s ongoing partnership with LEGO helps get the next generation interested in our shared future in space. But you won’t just find LEGOs in kids’ hands.

Those trails of condensed water from jet exhaust, seen as white streaks against the sky, can linger in the upper atmosphere for hours and affect the way Earth is heated and cooled.

Empty your shopping cart. Then check out NASA’s Black Hole Gallery.

Four astronauts joined the crew on the International Space Station last week. Three of those four astronauts are rookies who are about to experience their first holidays in space.

For more than 50 years, Snoopy has contributed to the excitement for NASA’s human spaceflight missions, helping to inspire generations to dream big. And this year, “big” just happens to be 49 feet tall.

No one wants to worry about the safety of the food on their table. And thanks to a system created for astronaut food, we don’t have to.

With more than three thousand parts, the sampling and caching system on the rover is the most complex mechanism ever sent into space.

Monitoring ocean height helps scientists predict the impact of sea level rise on humanity and improves marine and weather forecasts.

The instruments on NASA’s TESS are ideal for studying stellar vibrations, a field of research known as asteroseismology.

A company called Amorphology hopes to drop the price of cobots by using NASA advances originally made for planetary rovers.

A stabilized approach for landing is based on the pilot’s interpretation of certain visual clues.

Instead of fire, the exhaust produced by electric propulsion is a glowing greenish-blue trail, reminiscent of a science fiction movie.

NASA has released its first interactive graphic novel. The story follows fictional First Woman, Callie Rodriguez, as she becomes the first female astronaut to live and work on the Moon.

One hundred twenty tons of this simulant can be found at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in a lab area where they test how robots will perform on the Moon.

If you can service a satellite, it’s really a game changer, for both NASA and for the commercial industry.

The James Webb Space Telescope will help us study every phase in the history of our universe.

Radio over interplanetary distances isn’t just slow, it can only carry a limited amount of data, at about the speed of an old telephone modem Internet connection.