A tagged elephant seal basks on Kerguelen Island, a French territory in the Antarctic. Elephant seals are tagged as part of a French research program…
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SpaceX launched its 19th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station at 12:29 p.m. EST December 5, 2019, from Space Launch Complex 40 at…
Engineer Joel Steinkraus uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft. As the first CubeSat to enter…
Mars Before and After Dust Storm: Side-by-side movies shows how the 2018 global dust storm enveloped the Red Planet, courtesy of the Mars Color Imager…
(Left) Apollo 12 astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. stands beside NASA’s Surveyor 3 spacecraft; the lunar module Intrepid can be seen in the distance. Apollo…
The Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 mission that will track sea level rise, one of the clearest signs of global warming, for the next 10 years. Sentinel-6A, the first…
An underwater rover called BRUIE is being tested in Antarctica to look for life under the ice. Developed by engineers at NASA-JPL, the robotic submersible…
The colorful globe of Titan passes in front of Saturn and its rings in this true-color snapshot from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2011. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space…
An optical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Camilo Mejia Prada, shines a light on the interior of a testbed for an…
Lighter colors represent higher elevation in this image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. The oval indicates the…
An artist’s rendering of Mars Pathfinder, which consisted of a lander and the first-ever robotic rover on the surface of the Red Planet. The documentary…
This artist’s concept shows the European Space Agency’s ARIEL spacecraft on its way to Lagrange Point 2 (L2) – a gravitationally stable, Sun-centric orbit –…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view of Mercury transiting the Sun on May 9, 2016. Credit: NASA It only happens about 13 times a…
This time-lapse video, taken on October 9, 2019, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the move of the Mars 2020 rover into…
NASA’s ECOSTRESS sensor measured the stress levels of plants when it passed over the Peruvian Amazon rainforest on Aug. 7, 2019. The map reveals that…
A large burn scar can be seen from space where the Kincade Fire has burned through Sonoma County, California. The image was taken on Nov.…
This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust carved out by a massive star. A drawing overlaid on…
Illustration of one of the eight CYGNSS satellites in orbit above a hurricane. Credit: NASA Eight briefcase-size satellites flying in a row may be key…
Filled with briny lakes, the Quisquiro salt flat in South America’s Altiplano represents the kind of landscape that scientists think may have existed in Gale…
In this picture from September 28, 2019, engineers and technicians working on the Mars 2020 spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, look…