NASA
NASA.gov is the public website for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, connecting space missions, science news, NASA+ video, image libraries, learning resources, data, launches, and agency information.
What NASA.gov is
NASA.gov is the official website for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is a public gateway to NASA missions, science news, launches, NASA+ video, images, education resources, data portals, agency information, and ways to follow NASA work from a browser. NASA also publishes the official NASA app on the App Store and Google Play.
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Agency behind the site
NASA is the United States civil space and aeronautics agency. Its public site reflects a broad mission: human spaceflight, robotic exploration, Earth science, planetary science, astrophysics, heliophysics, aviation research, technology development, commercial partnerships, and public engagement. The website has to serve many audiences at once, from students and teachers to engineers, journalists, researchers, contractors, and space-curious readers.
Missions and programs
The missions area organizes NASA work by science, human spaceflight, aeronautics, space technology, launches, spacecraft, and featured programs. Readers can move from a broad topic such as Artemis, Hubble, Voyager, Europa Clipper, or the International Space Station into mission pages, galleries, updates, and technical context.
NASA+ and multimedia
NASA.gov connects to NASA+, the agency's streaming video service for live coverage and on-demand programming. The site also routes users to NASA images, videos, audio, podcasts, image-of-the-day pages, and media guidelines. For many readers, NASA's photographs and broadcasts are the first way a mission becomes understandable.
Science, data, and images
NASA's digital ecosystem includes science.nasa.gov, images.nasa.gov, Earth data resources, mission archives, visualization pages, and specialized portals run by NASA centers and programs. These sites make spacecraft observations, Earth imagery, mission products, and educational explanations easier to discover, although technical data often still requires domain knowledge to interpret well.
Learning and public engagement
NASA.gov is also a teaching and outreach platform. It publishes explainers, classroom resources, STEM opportunities, citizen-science links, event information, career material, and plain-language stories about discoveries. The strongest learning pages connect a spectacular image or mission headline to the evidence, instrument, orbit, or engineering problem behind it.
Access and reuse
Many NASA images, videos, audio files, and data products are made publicly available, but users still need to read media guidelines and record-level notes. Some material may involve third-party rights, privacy or publicity issues, mission partner credits, export-control limits, or technical context that changes how it should be reused.
Why it matters
NASA.gov matters because space and aeronautics research are publicly funded, technically complex, and globally visible. A clear public website helps people follow missions, understand risk and uncertainty, reuse media, learn from data, watch launches, and see how science, engineering, government, industry, and international collaboration fit together.
WHOIS domain data
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- Domain
- nasa.gov
- IP address
- 192.0.66.108
- Registrar
- get.gov
- WHOIS server
- whois.nic.gov
- Referral URL
- https://get.gov
- Created
- October 2, 1997
- Updated
- September 7, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2026
- Nameservers
- a1-32.akam.net (193.108.91.32); a12-64.akam.net (184.26.160.64); a14-67.akam.net (184.26.161.67); a5-66.akam.net (95.100.168.66); a8-66.akam.net (2.16.40.66); a9-64.akam.net (184.85.248.64)
- Domain status
- serverTransferProhibited
- DNSSEC
- signedDelegation
- Security email
- soc@nasa.gov
- Contact privacy
- Registrant, admin, technical, and security contact details are mostly redacted for privacy.