This illustration shows a high-altitude balloon ascending into the upper atmosphere. When fully inflated, these balloons are 400 feet (150 meters) wide, or about the…
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Comet NEOWISE streaked across the sky above the tree line of Lone Pine Lake, located on the Mount Whitney Trail in the Eastern Sierra Nevada…
In a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers observed the first driving test for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover on December…
10 second exposure captures International Space Station above comet NEOWISE on Saturday, July 18, 2020, from Keys Gap, West Virginia. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The International…
July 17, 2020 (Click image for high-resolution version.) On July 17, 2020, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this natural-color image of…
This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will carry a number of technologies that could make Mars safer…
The two illustrations on this page show a black hole surrounded by a disk of gas, before (above) and after (below) the disk is partially…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the stunning silvery-blue spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 4848. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gregg A notable feature of…
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft took this image on May 30, 2020. It shows the Sun’s appearance at a wavelength…
A photo of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope after a successful deployment test of its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope have found a young Neptune-size world orbiting AU Microscopii, a cool, nearby M-type dwarf…
This animation shows a series of views of the Sun captured with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter on May 30, 2020.…
July 9, 2020 When the usually chilly Great Lakes feel like bath water, you know it has been a warm summer. When the water is…
Coastal areas around the world – such as the Zambezi River Delta shown in a Landsat 8 satellite image – are contending with the consequences…
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) in the predawn skies on July 9, 2020, over Deer Valley, Utah. Credit: NASA As Comet NEOWISE begins to dazzle the…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury at its closest approach. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Scientists from NASA and…
The JPL-led challenge is seeking tiny payloads no larger than a bar of soap for a miniaturized Moon rover. Credit: NASA The winners for the…
NASA astronaut Bob Behnken (at left) is pictured during a spacewalk to swap batteries and upgrade power systems on the International Space Station’s Starboard-6 truss…
In a delicate operation, a 400-ton crane lifts the new X-band cone into the 70-meter (230-feet) Deep Space Station 43 dish located in Canberra, Australia.…
June 26, 2020 In southern South America, clouds often rule the skies. But in June 2020, just the right weather patterns were in place to…