This webpage is a brief overview of some of the online resources available to people researching science at NASA. Lists of databases, document collections, and our current journal subscriptions can be found elsewhere on this website.

All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call (358-0172) or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public, contact your Local Library for the availability of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.

Bibliographies

Webpages

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate - The first 'A' in NASA, where the science of flight is advanced.

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) - Each day a new image or photograph is featured. A searchable archive of past pictures is available too.

Astrophysics Data System - Includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics/planetary sciences/solar physics, containing 674,411 abstracts; 2) instrumentation, containing 605,446 abstracts; 3) physics and geophysics, containing 1,073,145 abstracts; and 4) Los Alamos preprint server, containing 3,902 abstracts. Also includes links to the full text of articles appearing in most of the major astronomical journals.

Beginner's Guide to Rockets

Beyond Einstein - NASA's plans to test the latest speculations on the origins of the cosmos.

Copernica - Gallery of works from the NASA Art Program. Includes works by Robert McCall, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jamie Wyeth. The works depict a wide range of subjects, from Space Shuttle launches to aeronautics research, Hubble Space Telescope and even virtual reality.

Exploring the Universe - NASA's starting point for your personal tour of the cosmos.

Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - USGS/IAU/NASA site providing technical information and names of geologic features in the solar system.

Great Images in NASA (GRIN) - Images of significant historical interest selected by the NASA History Office. Images are arranged by subject and NASA center and offered in a range of sizes.

Heliophysics - The study of the Sun and how it affects the Earth.

Human Research Program - Find out how NASA scientists and doctors are making discoveries that will keep our astronauts healthy in space and us healthy here on Earth.

Life on Earth - NASA's starting point for environmental studies and other ways that space helps our lives on Earth

Life Sciences Data Archive (LSDA) - Database of experiments, missions, biospecimens, flight hardware items, personnel, documents and images.

NASA Astrobiology Institute - Is humanity alone? Keep up with the search here!

NASA Earth Observatory - A central point for NASA's research on our homeworld's weather and natural resources.

NASA History Office

NASA Technical Reports Server - Provides access to NASA's current and historical aerospace research.

National Space Science Data Center - Images, CD- ROMs, videos, and data sets from NASA's satellites and probes.

NIX (NASA Image eXchange) - Web-based search engine for simultaneously searching one or more of NASA's online image and photo collections. NIX searches databases of over 442,000 NASA images and links to another 250,000 images via the "Additional NASA Imagery" button.

Planetquest - The ever-expanding search for other solar systems.

Research at Johnson Space Center

Science Mission Directorate - Where NASA's scientific research is coordinated.

Solar System Exploration - Take a tour of our neighbors!