Credit: NASA/SSC NASA conducted a second RS-25 single engine hot fire test on April 6, 2021, as part of a new series to support the…
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This animation is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet GJ 1132 b. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) For the first time, scientists using…
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March…
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March…
The James Webb Space Telescope is a space observatory to see further into the Universe than ever before. It is designed to answer outstanding questions…
June 30, 2014 The Back and Hayes rivers in Nunavut, Canada, display a striking contrast in color. Where two rivers meet without mixing much, the…
[embedded content] At the Moon’s North and South Poles, the Sun is never more than 1.5° above or below the horizon. The resulting pattern of…
NASA Juno image of the northern hemisphere of Jupiter around the region known as Jet N7. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Image processing by Kevin M. Gill This…
The MEDLI2 hardware is visible on the Mars 2020 heat shield as the heat shield falls toward the surface of Mars. The critical MEDLI2 electronics,…
This artist’s concept shows the planned flight path of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its final flyby of asteroid Bennu, which is scheduled for April 7.…
The SwRI-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) orbiting Jupiter aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft allowed scientists to discover faint aurora features likely triggered by charged particles coming from…
NASA’s Europa Clipper, depicted in this illustration that was updated in December 2020, will swoop around Jupiter on an elliptical path, dipping close to its…
March 23, 2021 The western United States is currently experiencing moderate to severe drought, and it is expected to worsen in upcoming months. Almost half…
The magnitude 3.3 and 3.1 temblors originated in a region called Cerberus Fossae, further supporting the idea that this location is seismically active. NASA’s InSight…
The first X-rays from Uranus have been captured by Chandra during observations obtained in 2002 and 2017, a discovery that may help scientists learn more…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used two cameras to create this selfie in front of Mont Mercou, a rock outcrop that stands 20 feet (6 meters)…
NASA’s Psyche mission to a distant metal asteroid will carry a revolutionary Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) package. This artist’s concept shows Psyche spacecraft with…
November 26, 2020 Looking down from the International Space Station (ISS), an astronaut captured this view of the northwest coastline of Saudi Arabia, where up…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay This Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured…
Official NASA portrait of astronaut Kate Rubins. Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is a member of the Artemis Team, a select group of astronauts…