This illustration depicts the gaseous halo of the Andromeda galaxy if it could be seen with the naked eye. At a distance of 2.5 million…
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August 26, 2020. (Click image for high–resolution view.) Government meteorologists issued unusually dire warnings as a large hurricane neared the U.S. Gulf Coast on August…
NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image of the large and powerful major Hurricane Laura in the Gulf of Mexico on August 26, 2020 at…
NASA has assigned astronaut Jeanette Epps to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a mission to…
The prime Expedition 63 crewmembers pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. From left are, NASA astronaut and…
Shown with its primary mirror fully deployed, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most technically complex space science telescope NASA has ever…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope actually depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, located around 2400 light-years away. Credit:…
This aerial photograph shows fast-moving meltwater rivers flowing across the Greenland Ice Sheet, a region that, combined with Antarctic meltwater and thermal expansion, accounts for…
NOAA-NASA’s Suomi NPP was able to image this nighttime image of the California fires on Aug. 20, 2020. This image does not have the Visible…
High-resolution illustration of the Roman spacecraft against a starry background. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center New simulations show that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space…
August 21, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) On August 21, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite captured natural-color imagery of…
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30. NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System tool lets you track the…
August 15, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view. See image below for detail view.) Nearly every summer, colorful blooms of phytoplankton flourish in the Baltic…
August 16, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) On August 16, 2020, temperatures in Southern California approached the highest levels ever reliably recorded on Earth.…
August 20, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) After more than 10,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours, hundreds of wildfires erupted across California, particularly in…
Artist’s conception of SIMP J01365663+0933473, a planetary-mass object beyond our Solar System. The object, about a dozen times more massive than Jupiter is traveling through…
New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense…
This ECOSTRESS temperature map shows the land surface temperatures throughout Los Angeles County on August 14, 2020, during a heat wave. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech From cities…
The Expedition 63 crew will spend the weekend in the Russian segment’s Zvezda service module during a cabin air leak test. The three Expedition 63…
NASA’s Terra satellite image of clouds of smoke over California on August 19, 2020. Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)…