News & Politics What’s Going On With These Allegedly Stranded Astronauts? “I myself would have spent another six months up there in a minute,” a retired astronaut tells us. NASA, Elon Musk, Boeing, astronauts | 2 months ago
News & Politics Inside the NASA Center in Maryland Helping Us Explore Space Before many spacecraft journey into the stars, they’re designed, built, and tested at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt—a pioneering hub of space science and exploration. NASA, Space | 3 months ago
News & Politics Washingtonians Could Maybe Kind Of See the Northern Lights Again Tonight While the skies won't be nearly as striking as they were last night, there's still a chance of a little auroral action NASA, Northern Lights | 6 months ago
Things to Do The Smithsonian and NASA Unveil Earth Information Center A new National Museum of Natural History exhibit uses data to explore the impact of climate change. Smithsonian, Climate Change, NASA, exhibits | 6 months ago
News & Politics Look Up, DC: Catch a Rocket Launch and a Supermoon Tonight The Antares rocket, launching from Wallops Island, Virginia, will be visible in the DC area. NASA | Aug 1, 2023
News & Politics This Poem Is Traveling to One of Jupiter’s Moons on a NASA Spacecraft US Poet Laureate Ada Limón unveiled the poem at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress, NASA | Jun 2, 2023
News & Politics Maryland’s Reid Wiseman Will Command NASA’s Artemis II Mission to the Moon NASA announced the four astronauts who will travel around the moon in a 10-day mission. NASA | Apr 3, 2023
Things to Do A NASA Engineer Shares His Winter Stargazing Tips Star party, anyone? NASA, Winter Things to Do, Stargazing | Dec 27, 2022
News & Politics 3 Big Launches Set to Happen This Week (Aside From Trump’s Campaign) A rocket, six train stations, and two new books plan to take off. WMATA, Michelle Obama, NASA, Mike Pence | Nov 14, 2022
News & Politics How to Watch NASA’s Asteroid Collision Tonight It's humanity's first-ever "planetary defense test." NASA, Asteroid, DART, Spacecraft | Sep 26, 2022