Yosemite's vast acreage and remote location protect some of the darkest night skies in the country. Astronomers, photographers, and city dwellers flock to the park to take advantage of this unique opportunity to view planets, stars, and...

Yosemite's vast acreage and remote location protect some of the darkest night skies in the country. Astronomers, photographers, and city dwellers flock to the park to take advantage of this unique opportunity to view planets, stars, and...

Venus, our nearby “sister” planet, beckons today as a compelling target for exploration that may connect the objects in our own solar system to those discovered around nearby stars. Yet, humanity’s exploration of Venus...

Our universe is more than a serene landscape of stars--it is teeming with activity from some extremely violent events. In a presentation at the IMAX theatre at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. on...

With Artemis, NASA is going back to the Moon. And we want you to come along!



You Are Going, illustrated by former NASA intern Shane Tolentino, shares a glimpse into future Artemis missions. Learn all about the...

In this video, the instructor teaches viewers how to create four different landscapes in one frame, representing different times of the day: morning, afternoon, twilight, and night. Using acrylic colors and simple techniques, he...

The Messier catalog includes some of the most fascinating astronomical objects that can be observed from Earth's Northern Hemisphere. Among them are deep-sky objects that can be viewed in stunning detail using larger...

The Hubble Space Telescope observed Jupiter on April 3rd, 2017 - just days before Jupiter is in opposition on April 7th. This new image of Jupiter is part of Hubble's Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy program, which is one of...

Hubble turned 30 this year, and it has a birthday present to share with you! Newly released Hubble images of 30 celestial objects from the Caldwell Catalog show stunning cosmic sights, many of which you can see with a backyard...

Jared Espley talks about the close encounter between Mars and Comet Siding Spring at the Oct 17, 2014 liveshot. This is a canned interview.<b<b<br/>r/>r/>

This is a story about how humans in 1054 AD witnessed the supernova that created the crab nebula.

On this episode, get ready to learn allll about... lightning bugs! Coyote and Mario are in Columbus, Ohio to find and catch these glowing bugs - then they're going to build a lightning bug lantern! Stay tuned to find how to build a...

Hubble has taken some spectacular images of many different galaxies, but it can't resolve more than a few blobs on Pluto's surface. Why is that?

Believe it or not, "how do I find the Milky Way" is one of the most common questions I get about astrophotography, so I decided to make this quick little video describing how to find it.

Anti-science mentality is rampant in this day and age, and one of the more peculiar aspects of this trend is the current fad that is the Flat Earth model. There exists a group of people who believe that against everything we have come to...

When will the next naked-eye supernova event happen? What will it look like? Will we be safe?

Space is filled with countless stars, all of which radiate enormous amounts of heat. These stars are tens of thousands of times bigger than our own sun. Still, space is considered to be cold. Why is that? If there are so many hot burning...

Complete Guide to Milky Way Photography

Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old.



Just seven years later, he would

be dead.

It was really his last four years where he developed the...

Now that we've learned about how the universe began, as well as the development of the Milky Way galaxy, the solar system, and the Earth, it's time to learn about the human beings that came to inhabit the Earth. Eventually, they began to...

Learn about the life and work of Caroline Herschel.

Discover the ancient origins of constellations.

On Halloween in 2003, the sun unleashed a series of spooky storms, which ignited lots of ghostly looking auroras, and effected power grids, satellites and other electrical equipment. On the fifth anniversary, NASA takes a look back at...

Venus is currently at its brightest as the “evening star.” The planet will reach its greatest brilliancy in the night sky this year on April 28. The planet will fade from the night sky near the end of May and return as the “morning...