Testing teams can be seen carefully working a critical part of the observatory known as the deployable tower assembly that helps Webb maintain its sub-zero…
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This processed image of Io by New Horizons shows the 290-kilometer-high (180-mile-high) plume of the volcano Tvashtar near Io’s north pole. Also visible is the…
Thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting…
The Peregrine Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometer (PITMS), an instrument that will explore how water molecules, possibly created on the surface by the solar wind, are released…
Hurricanes are some of the most powerful and destructive weather events on Earth. To help study these powerful storms, NASA is launching TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations…
These AIM images span June 6-June 18, 2021, when the Northern Hemisphere noctilucent cloud season was well underway. The colors — from dark blue to…
Time-lapse photograph of the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) rocket launch, taken from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in 2013. The image is from…
Credit: NASA Many cultures name full Moons, and while the names differ, we can all agree that June’s full Moon was a sweet sight to…
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Avoiding distortions of the atmosphere, Hubble has an unobstructed view…
This is an artist’s concept of a galaxy with a brilliant quasar at its center. A quasar is a very bright, distant and active supermassive…
Special filters enable scientists to measure different temperatures in the corona during total solar eclipses, such as this one seen in Mitchell, Oregon, on August…
The U.S. Postal Service issued a set of stamps highlighting views of the Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 18, 2021. Credit: U.S.…
In this image from 2003, retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham took a break from training for the STS-116 mission and is shown in front of a…
A technician holds one of Roman’s detectors. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security,…
This illustration shows a white dwarf accreting matter from a companion star. Once the white dwarf reaches a specific mass tipping point, it explodes as…
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target…
The Orion Bar is a diagonal, ridge-like feature of gas and dust in the lower left quadrant of this image of the Orion Nebula. Sculpted…
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms They come from anywhere in the sky: mysterious flashes of radio energy that disappear in…
In this photo taken from the International Space Station, the rising Sun casts long shadows across the Philippine Sea. Credit: NASA Have you ever worn…