Encore: Welcome to the Dark Side
Normal matter—the kind that makes up our home planet and everything we can see—adds up to just five percent of the known universe. The other...
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NASA's Curious Universe
Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you need is your curiosity. First-time space explorers welcome.
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Roman Series: Liftoff!
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is in space, taking its first steps to explore the cosmos. Relive Roman’s launch—and the emotion th...
Roman Series: Why NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Make Unexpected Discoveries
Take a deep dive into the science of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with Julie McEnery, Roman's senior project scientist. Learn wh...
Roman Series: The Technology Inside NASA’s Newest Space Telescope
What makes NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope a powerful tool with an unprecedented wide view of the cosmos? NASA engineers who design...
Roman Series: Jupiters Around Other Suns
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar system. NASA scientists Bertrand Mennesson and...
Roman Series: NASA’s New View of the Dark Universe
Meet NASA’s newest space telescope: Roman. With similar resolution to Hubble but a field of view 100 times larger, the Nancy Grace Roman Spa...
Launching Soon: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
NASA is about to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will change the way we see the universe and settle essential questions...
There’s More Space in Your Life Than You Think
In its mission to explore the unknown in air and space, NASA ends up inventing a lot of new things. Then, the agency “spins off” those inven...
Meet the Artemis III Crew
Meet the astronauts who will fly on Artemis III: Commander Randy Bresnik, Pilot Luca Parmitano, and Mission Specialists Frank Rubio and Andr...
Catching Up With Perseverance on Mars
NASA’s robotic explorers are looking for signs of ancient life on Mars. In its five years and counting on the surface of the Red Planet, the...
Bonus: Behind the Scenes of Artemis II with NASA Experts
In this bonus episode, go behind the scenes of key moments from Artemis II with NASA experts who made them possible. Engineers who launched...
Update: Artemis II Crew Comes Home
NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are back home. Hear reactions from the Artemis II crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy...
Update: Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon
NASA’s Artemis II mission has flown around the Moon, and its four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than anyone in history. Relive this...
Artemis II: How NASA’s Moon Mission Returns to Earth
Liftoff! NASA’s Artemis II mission launched on April 1, 2026, carrying four Moonbound astronauts. After an approximately 10-day mission, Art...
Artemis II: The Ground Teams Powering NASA's Moon Mission
Behind NASA’s Artemis II mission and the astronauts who will fly around the Moon, teams on the ground are essential. Explore some of the epi...
Artemis II: How NASA Will Study the Moon—And the Astronauts Going There
During Artemis II, four astronauts will see the lunar surface as few humans have—and possibly, parts of the Moon’s far side that no one has...
Artemis II: Inside NASA’s New Ride to the Moon
During Artemis II, humans will fly Orion—NASA’s next-generation spaceship designed to take us to the Moon and beyond—for the first time. Tou...
Artemis II: What NASA Learned From Launching Artemis I
In 2022, NASA launched Artemis I, an uncrewed test flight of the rocket and spacecraft that will send humans to the Moon. Go inside Firing R...
Artemis II: Meet the Moonbound Astronauts
This year, four NASA astronauts will fly around the Moon and back for the first time since the Apollo program. Their mission is called Artem...
Launching Soon: Artemis II
This year, four NASA astronauts are flying around the Moon and back—and Curious Universe is bringing you along for the ride. The mission is...