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Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS)...
The Tien Shan mountain range in Central Asia, seen from the International Space Station.
Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked...
Snoopy, the zero-gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, is shown on Jan. 5, 2023, after being unpacked from his transport case.
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthplace, Atlanta, Georgia, is seen on January 20, 2013, in this image from the International Space...
One of the Expedition 34 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 240 miles, photographed this vertical night view of the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus.
Right of center: faint, scattered collection of cool stars, an irregular galaxy. Lower left: disk-shaped galaxy nearly edge-on lies surrounded by a wide glow. Smaller galaxies in various orientations cluster around the two. Black background.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is all smiles as he observes the behavior of a free-flying...
El astronauta de la NASA e ingeniero de vuelo de la Expedición 68, Frank Rubio, que hablará el 21 de octubre sobre su primer mes en la Estación Espacial Internacional
The Artemis I Orion capsule is secured on a platform inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at Kennedy Space Center...
A close-up view shows NASA’s Artemis I Orion capsule secured on a platform inside the Multi-Payload Processsing Facility (MPPF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 6, 2023.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann peers through one of the seven windows in the cupola, the...
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann peers through one of the seven windows in the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world." Mann displays the U.S. flag inside the cupola in the window next to her.
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft is in this early morning photo from Dec. 14, 2022, as preparations...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography spacecraft onboard is seen as preparations for launch continue, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Stars fill the view. A dense, spherical collection of blue and yellow-white stars toward the center. The image’s edges hold redder foreground stars, and many small background stars.
On April 8, 2022, this 30-second exposure captured the International Space Station as it passed over the Space Launch System...
In this 30-second exposure the International Space Station is seen as it passes over NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed on Friday, May 6, 2022 with...
Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer aboard, Friday, May 6, 2022.
An osprey is seen in front of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop...
An osprey is seen in front of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft’s HIRISE instrument on Oct. 23, 2022, of the northern plains...
This image of the northern plains of Arabia Terra shows craters that contain curious deposits with mysterious shapes and distribution.
The James Webb Space Telescope spies the spiral galaxy NGC 7469, located 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation...
NGC 7469, a face-on galaxy, with gray spiral arms, sprinkled with bright red patches of star formation.
On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit...
Apollo 8's Earthrise photo with the earth appearing over the horizon of the Moon
NASA spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares a roll-out solar array for its deployment on the International Space Station.
Spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares to deploy a roll-out solar array
Hawaii's big island and its two major volcanoes Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa rest under a partly cloudy sky on...
Hawaii's big island and its two major volcanoes Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean south of the Hawaiian island chain.
By taking a closer look at one of Webb’s first images, the iconic Cosmic Cliffs, scientists have found dozens of...
The Carina Nebula imaged by Webb.
The lander's journey of discovery into the interior structure and composition of Mars has come to a close.
Surface of Mars in front of Mars InSight Lander, with lander leg visible in foreground and SEIS instrument deployed nearby
NASA is taking a leading role to help integrate new types of Advanced Air Mobility aircraft like air taxis and...
The Moog SureFly aircraft hovers above Cincinnati Municipal Airport during an acoustic hover test.
A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this...
Clouds of gas cover the entire view, in a variety of bold colors. In the center the gas is brighter and very textured, resembling dense smoke. Around the edges it is sparser and fainter. Several small, bright blue stars are scattered over the nebula.
Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of barred spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly.
Image center: blue, and pinkish-white swirls of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 6956. Dark, reddish-brown dust lanes along the inner part of the spiral arms. Inky black background with foreground and distant stars and galaxies.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft onboard is seen as it rolls...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography spacecraft onboard is seen as it rolls out to the pad, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
In this photo from Dec. 15, 1965, the Gemini-VII spacecraft is seen from the Gemini-VI-A spacecraft during their rendezvous mission...
NASA's Gemini-7 spacecraft as seen from the Gemini-6 spacecraft during their rendezvous mission in space.
At 12:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2022, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashed down in the Pacific...
NASA's Orion spacecraft bobs in the water of the Pacific Ocean, after splashdown at 12:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2022, after a 25.5-day mission to the Moon.
On flight day 20 of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 5, 2022, Orion captured the Moon on the day of...
(Dec. 5, 2022) On flight day 20 of the Artemis I mission, Orion captured the Moon on the day of return powered flyby. The burn, which lasted 3 minutes, 27 seconds, committed the spacecraft to a Dec. 11 splashdown.
In this illustration by Rick Giudice from August 1973, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft passes by the gas giant planet Jupiter.
Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer (10) passing Jupiter
This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on Dec. 7, 1972, by the crew of the final Apollo mission,...
Earth as seen by Apollo 17 in 1972
In this Dec. 1993, onboard view from Space Shuttle mission STS-61 shows astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman's Extra Vehicular...
Space Shuttle mission STS-61 onboard view taken by a fish-eyed camera lens showing astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman's Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) to repair the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
On the 19th day of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 4, 2022, a camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured...
On the 19th day of the Artemis I mission, the Moon grows larger in frame as Orion prepares for the return powered flyby on Dec. 5, when it will pass approximately 79 miles above the lunar surface.
This whole collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a...
Bright, blue-white stars of varying sizes fil the scene. A smattering of orange-white stars dotted throughout. A swath of pale-blue gas and dust extends from upper left to lower right across the image.
On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Nov. 21, 2022, the Orion spacecraft’s optical navigation camera captured black-and-white...
On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Orion’s optical navigation camera captured black-and-white images of craters on the Moon below.
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks prior to meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson for...
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers remarks prior to meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington.
In this image, Orion captures a unique view of Earth and the Moon, seen from a camera mounted on one...
In this image, Orion captures a unique view of Earth and the Moon, seen from a camera mounted on one of the spacecraft's solar arrays.
A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken...
A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of Orion's solar arrays.
The annual Thanksgiving event was held Nov. 24, 2022.
The Astronaut Snoopy balloon is seen floating along in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022, in New York City.
Snoopy, the zero-gravity indicator for NASA’s Artemis I flight test, floating in space Nov. 20, 2022, while attached to his...
A mostly black and white photo of the interior of the Orion spacecraft. Snoopy, the zero-gravity indicator, is visible in orange.
NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft snapped this black and white photo of Earth on Nov. 17, 2022, the second day of...
On the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, Orion used its optical navigation camera to snap black and white photos of planet Earth.
On Nov. 20, the fifth day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera mounted on the tip of one...
The Orion spacecraft dominates the foreground of this photo, with the NASA worm logo prominently visible in bold, red letters. In the background, the Moon appears, small and gray.
A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the...
An irregularly shaped bright orange cloud dense gas and dust, which appears darker and more compact at center and is outlined by thinner gas and dust in light shades of blue. A multitude of bright stars against a black background.