Image of the DayThis cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159.Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 sessions of extravehicular...A little blue heron is seen in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept....The galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its gorgeous spiral arms in this newly released image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.The International Space Station captured a portion of the Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake from 260 miles above the Earth...A new image of SNR 0519-69.0 shows the debris of a star that exploded several hundred years ago in Earth’s...On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston.This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above looks across the Mediterranean Sea...The Voyager mission was designed to take advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of the outer planets in the late...In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a...Three impact craters are displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus taken NASA's Magellan, the first...A little-studied star, TYC 3203-450-1, upstages a galaxy in this Hubble Telescope image from December 2017.Auroras and hazes glow in this composite image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam).NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad...This view of the crescent Earth over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission.T-38 planes are a fixture of astronaut training, assisting pilots and mission specialists to think quickly in changing situations. Here,...This time lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy taken from the International Space Station (ISS) also captured a lightning strike...The supersonic X-1E research aircraft was the last of NASA's experimental X-1 series of aircraft. From 1955-1958, it made 26...The core of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet...A paddlewheeler makes its way up the Mississippi River as the moon rises over New Orleans on Sunday evening, Aug....Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space.NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher as it is...The Perseid meteors are an annual event many skywatchers look forward to, as they often produce lots of shooting stars...A team of roboticists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have applied their expertise in making robots for deep...This celestial cloudscape from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro...Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and InstallIn this picture from 2016, our Super Guppy, a specialized aircraft with a unique hinged nose, lands at Moffett Field...This Moon-mosaic is comprised of 1,231 images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's (LRO) Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC) in the summer...Since August 2012, Curiosity has been exploring 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000...This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the...Like distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, chunks of sea ice drift through graceful swirls of grease ice in...With wildflowers surrounding the view, NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – arrives at...This image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) shows a group of galaxies, including a large distorted ring-shaped galaxy known as...NASA celebrates the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what...Zeta Ophiuchi is a star with a complicated past, having likely been ejected from its birthplace by a powerful stellar...As NASA’s Juno mission completed its 43rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 5, 2022, its JunoCam instrument captured this...Before NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft takes to the skies, plenty of testing happens to ensure a safe first flight....The crew doesn't just snap pretty pictures; the research aboard the station benefits humanity in numerous ways.This image shows a variety of wind-related features on the Red Planet near the center of Gamboa Crater.
