NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made a record-breaking 25th flight on April 8, 2022. The navigation camera aboard the rotorcraft captured its longest and fastest flight…
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Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah. May 2, 2022. In the Utah desert, the red rocks, cliffs, and canyons of this nautically named national…
Iceberg A-68A thickness. 2017 – 2021. Researchers recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs. As soon as an iceberg…
Superimposed Hubble images of Jupiter and Mars. Credit: Jupiter: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), Mars:…
NASA astronauts (from left) Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines are pictured inside the International Space Station’s seven-windowed cupola monitoring the approach and rendezvous of Boeing’s…
Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet with…
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft safely lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2…
Illustration showing a close-up of the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), one of the elements of Gateway. Credit: NASA President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime…
Mars Perseverance Sol 439 – Right Navigation Camera: Navcam image looking behind the rover along our drive path. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The past few weeks have…
NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander is covered…
Astronauts (from left) Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti wave following Starliner farewell remarks from NASA leadership on Tuesday. Credit: NASA TV…
May 14, 2022. A plume of discolored water being emitted by Kavachi Volcano. Kavachi Volcano in the Southwest Pacific Solomon Islands—where hammerhead sharks prowl—has entered…
May 21, 2022. Natural color. (Click image for wide, high-resolution view.) The speed and intensity of the Black fire grew quickly, producing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud…
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew ship approaches the International Space Station on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission before automatically docking to the Harmony module’s forward…
The intriguing feature in the bottom third of the image, below the center, has been nicknamed the solar hedgehog. At present no one knows exactly…
This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Bound for an asteroid of the same name, the orbiter spacecraft is undergoing final…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured images of a mound of rock on Mount Sharp called “East Cliffs” that features a fracture that resembles a doorway.…
Hubble Space Telescope image of globular cluster Liller 1. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Ferraro The subdued red tones of the globular cluster Liller 1…
NASA plans to send astronauts to the Moon under Artemis missions to prepare for human exploration of Mars in the future. Now they are calling…
The next commercial crew test mission to the space station … Outlining the agency’s objectives for deep space exploration …. And covering the total lunar…