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A Particular Lenticular Cloud
A Particular Lenticular Cloud

Landsat 8’s Operational Land Imager acquired this image of an elongated lenticular cloud, locally nicknamed the “Taieri Pet,” above New…

Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster
Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster

Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large…

An Opportunity to Study Water
An Opportunity to Study Water

NASA astronaut Don Pettit fills a sphere of water with food coloring in this image from Oct. 20, 2024. Pettit…

Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball
Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball

The spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is IC 3225. It looks remarkably as if it was launched from…

An Orange Blue Moon
An Orange Blue Moon

Clouds curling around the full “blue” moon gives the night sky an eerie feel in this image from Aug. 19,…

Artemis II Astronauts Put Orion’s Side Hatch to the Test
Artemis II Astronauts Put Orion’s Side Hatch to the Test

Artemis II crew members recently traveled to Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, where they practiced opening and closing an…

Melbourne City Lights
Melbourne City Lights

Astronaut Don Pettit captured this image of Melbourne, Australia from the International Space Station on Oct. 9, 2024, as it…

A Dazzling Supernova
A Dazzling Supernova

This image, released on Feb. 24, 2017, shows Supernova 1987a (center) surrounded by dramatic red clouds of gas and dust…

I Am Artemis: Casey Wolfe
I Am Artemis: Casey Wolfe

While precision, perseverance, and engineering are necessary skills in building a Moon rocket, Casey Wolfe knows that one of the…

On the Road Again…
On the Road Again…

In this image from Oct. 3, 2024, NASA’s mobile launcher 1 makes its way back to the Vehicle Assembly Building…