A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches on the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program 3 (STP-3) mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at…
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NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, on December 24, 2013, spacewalk. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
This diagram shows the orbits of 2,200 potentially hazardous objects as calculated by JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Highlighted is the orbit…
Mastcam-Z’s First Martian Sunset: The first Mastcam-Z image of the Martian sunset acquired from Jezero crater on sol 257 of the mission. Martian sunsets typically…
Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World. Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava) On Saturday, December…
Mars Helicopter Sol 133 – Color Camera: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image during its 9th flight. Flight 17 will fly by this terrain…
Launch of an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 18, 2021. Credit: United Launch Alliance The December 6 launch of…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy NCG 7329, captured with Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. This…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
Ozone 101 is the first in a series of explainer videos outlining the fundamentals of popular Earth science topics. Let’s back up to the basics…
Illustration of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 (STPSat-6) with the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload communicating data over infrared links.…
LCRD will relay data between the International Space Station and the ground. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) as it leaves Earth. To first lift SLS to orbit, the solid rocket boosters along with the…
Launch of an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 18, 2021. Credit: United Launch Alliance The December 5 launch of…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6891. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Hajian (University of Waterloo), H. Bond (Pennsylvania State University), and B. Balick (University of…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree selfie using the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, at the end of its robotic arm. The selfie…
NASA engineers successfully completed a 24-inch diameter subscale solid rocket test on December 2, 2021, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in…
The space station was pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during its departure on November 8, 2021. Credit: NASA Johnson At 1:58 a.m. CST,…
[embedded content] What’s Up for December? Your early evening highlights, a chance to catch a comet, and the annual Geminid meteors. On December 6th through…
Supernova remnants, such as the Crab Nebula, are made of debris from exploded stars. Over the years, the Hubble Space TelescopeThe Hubble Space Telescope (often…