How does the universe work? How is it changing, and what does its future hold? Is there other life in the cosmos awaiting our discovery? The answers to some of humanity’s most profound questions lie in the stars.

From their unique vantage point in space, NASA’s astrophysics observatories have shaped our understanding of the universe and our place in it.

Join us as we celebrate three decades of observing the cosmos, reflect on the most groundbreaking discoveries, and look towards the future of scientific exploration.

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NASA is partnering with the aerospace industry to develop lunar relays. Establishing a network of communication relay satellites in lunar orbit will enable continuous and reliable communication between Earth and lunar missions, even in locations where the Earth is not directly visible from the Moon. This effort is being done through the Near Space Network’s Services Request for Proposal.

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been watching the Sun for 15 years — and this spacecraft sees much more than meets the eye!

SDO’s 10 imaging channels capture visible, ultraviolet, and extreme ultraviolet light, helping scientists study solar material at a range of different temperatures. Together, they reveal a prismatic picture of our ever-changing star.

NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.

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NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.

Watch the video to learn how imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together will help scientists better understand the entire inner heliosphere — Sun, solar wind, and Earth — as a single connected system.

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NASA's Near Space Network enables in-space missions with the communication and navigation services they need to bring science data to Earth. The network supports over 40 NASA and non-NASA missions. Learn more about the mission onboarding process in this video.

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s core elements have been installed onto the spacecraft bus — the observatory’s powerhouse that will transport it a million miles away to Lagrange Point 2.

This combination of the spacecraft bus with the Optical Telescope Assembly, Wide Field Instrument, and Coronagraph Instrument creates the Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly, or SCIPA.

These components equip Roman to investigate the universe’s many mysteries, like dark energy's role in cosmic history, dark matter’s properties, and planets outside of our solar system.

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In 2023, we brought a sample of an asteroid called Bennu to Earth, part of a plan to study remnants of our early solar system. These grains of rock have shown that the building blocks of life and the conditions for making them existed on Bennu's parent body 4.5 billion years ago.

The Bennu samples contain amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- including 14 of the 20 that life uses to create proteins here on Earth. In addition, the samples contain all five of the nucleobases that encode genetic information in DNA and RNA.

The samples also contain minerals called evaporites, or salts, which exist on Earth, too. Evaporites are evidence that the larger body Bennu was once part of had a wet, salty environment. On Earth, scientists believe conditions like this played a role in life developing.

Although there is no evidence that life ever existed on Bennu or its parent body, the asteroid samples suggest that ingredients for life were widespread across the early solar system, and some may have made their way to Earth when asteroids bombarded our planet during its youth.

The samples contain other surprises as well. Some of those amino acids exist almost exclusively in one of two possible orientations on Earth. We expected to see some of this imbalance on Bennu, too. But the samples revealed an even mix of both molecule orientations, suggesting that something else in early life may have caused the imbalance.

Much of this science wouldn't have been possible to conduct in space, and traveling through Earth's atmosphere and landing on the ground changes fragments of asteroids, making meteorites an imperfect record of the solar system’s history. This means that sample return missions like OSIRIS-REx are a unique way to peek into our early solar system from the era of the origins of life.

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You put your right molecule in, you take your right molecule out, you put your sample in the centrifuge, and you shake it all about...

Amino acids — the building blocks of life — can be right or left-handed, a property known as chirality. Last year, our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought to Earth samples of an asteroid called Bennu, which contain amino acids. As NASA scientists got to work exploring those samples, we found some chiral surprises.

In Earthlings, Amino acids exist almost exclusively in one of their two possible orientations. We expected to see some of this imbalance in the Bennu samples, too. But the samples revealed an even mix of both molecule orientations, suggesting that something else in the development of early life may have caused the imbalance.

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Video description:
0:00 A woman wearing a maroon NASA shirt talks in front of a greenscreen backdrop of gray regolith. The word chirality is spelled out phonetically above her.
0:07 A 3D structure of an amino acid zooms back to become part of a protein.
0:11 Three stacked clips show phytoplankton under a microscope, purple flowers, and running giraffes.
0:13 Back to the woman talking.
0:19 Two hands, palms down on a box, seen from above. They cross, so one hand is stacked on top of the other. Although most of the fingers more or less line up, the thumbs are sticking out in opposite directions.
0:26 Two stacked pictures of gloved hands slide in from opposite directions. In each, a 3D molecule model is superimposed. The top glove is holding L-Alanine. The bottom is holding D-Alanine. These are the same molecular structure but oriented differently.
0:29 Back to the woman talking.
0:43 Flying through space, past the Sun, past Earth, the asteroid belt, and Jupiter.
0:52 Fade to the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flying toward an asteroid.
0:55 OSIRIS-REx’s sample container is seen from the spacecraft’s perspective as it blasts rocks up into the container.
0:58 Animation of a large white and red parachute falling over the desert, with a small black capsule suspended.
0:59 A gloved hand holds up a small vial with dark gray liquid.
1:02 Fade to the black regolith of the Bennu sample.
1:04 Back to the woman talking.
1:16 Looking down at the sample capsule full of regolith.
1:18 A tiny vial with a small pile of dark gray regolith.
1:19 Two tiny Bennu rocks seen under a microscope with bright white veins.
1:21 Back to the woman talking.

The origin of life is one of the deepest mysteries in science, but the clues to solving it have been buried by plate tectonics, the water cycle, and even life itself. For answers, scientists are looking beyond Earth to primitive asteroids like Bennu, the target of NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx sample return mission. OSIRIS-REx gathered pristine material from Bennu in 2020 and delivered it to Earth in 2023. Now, rocks from Bennu are revealing a lost world from the dawn of the solar system, with the right conditions to foster the building blocks of life.

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The Andromeda galaxy holds over 1 trillion stars and has been a key to unlocking the secrets of the universe. Thanks to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, we’re now seeing Andromeda in stunning new detail, revealing its dynamic history and unique structure.

Recent Hubble surveys mapped the galaxy’s entire disk—an effort spanning a decade and over 1,000 orbits—showing everything from young stars to remnants of past galactic collisions.

Learn how new information about Andromeda is reshaping our understanding of galactic evolution and what it reveals about the fate of our own galaxy.

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