News & Politics Inside NASA’s Mission to Defend Earth From Deadly Asteroids Our Solar System contains tens of thousands of potentially dangerous asteroids that could wipe out an entire city, or worse. In Washington, a NASA office is leading efforts to spot and neutralize threats—before it’s too late. Asteroids, NASADecember 18, 2025
News & Politics Aisha Bowe on How a Childhood Love of Science Fiction Inspired Her School was a challenge early on, but she became a NASA engineer–and then one of the few Black women to go into space. First Person, NASANovember 7, 2025
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. astronauts, Boeing, Elon Musk, NASAFebruary 5, 2025
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, SpaceJanuary 30, 2025
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 LightsOctober 11, 2024
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. Climate Change, exhibits, NASA, SmithsonianOctober 8, 2024
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. NASAAugust 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, NASAJune 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. NASAApril 3, 2023
Things to Do A NASA Engineer Shares His Winter Stargazing Tips Star party, anyone? NASA, Stargazing, Winter Things to DoDecember 27, 2022
