NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. Traveling…
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Satellite image of Tropical Cyclone Jasper captured on December 12, 2023, by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The first storm of the…
The waning gibbous Moon is pictured just above Earth’s horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above a…
NASA’s Starling mission will test new technologies for autonomous swarm navigation on four CubeSats in low-Earth orbit. Credit: Blue Canyon Technologies/NASA NASA’s Starling mission overcomes…
Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, haunted skies over the island of Kvaløya, near Tromsø Norway on December 13, 2009. This 30-second long exposure records their…
This new image of supernova remnant SN 1006 combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The red, green, and…
Launched in December 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a significant astronomical instrument orbiting Earth, studying X-ray emissions from cosmic phenomena like quasars,…
This artist’s rendition shows a close-up view of the asteroid Psyche. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is still in the early part of its long voyage…
Visualization of total carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere in 2021 Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an…
Artist’s impression of AWE mapping the properties of global mesospheric gravity waves. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is…
OSIRIS-REx collected a half-pound sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu in October 2020. The mission’s sample return capsule landed with the aid of a…
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli uses a portable glovebag to swap components inside the BioFabrication Facility (BFF) located in the International…
Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission – part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program – designed to take advantage of Titan’s environment to sample materials and…
This December, skywatchers can enjoy the Geminid meteor shower, peaking on the night of December 13th, and the opportunity to observe asteroid Vesta, especially when…
In the foreground, the golden cymbal-shaped solar array of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft is partially illuminated by the Sun and shadowed by other exterior station…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, launched on October 13, has been successfully performing operations in space, including activating scientific instruments and setting a record with its electric…
Satellite image of the volcanic plume drifting from the Anak Krakatau volcano acquired on December 2, 2023, by the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8.…
Just a few feet away from a 70mm camera onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Russian-built control module and the U.S.-built Unity connecting module are…
Satellite image of Iceberg A-23A captured on November 28, 2023, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite. Stuck on the seafloor for…
The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its…