Image of the DayOne of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 has been opened under the careful direction of...Astronaut John Young, the pilot of the Gemini III mission, inspects his helmet in the ready room in preparation for...A new raft of discoveries marks a scientific high point: More than 5,000 planets are now confirmed to exist beyond...This colorful image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and published in 2018, celebrated the observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing...Earth's Moon is seen rising behind NASA’s Space Launch System rocket.NASA’s Space Launch Syste rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher in High Bay 3...Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, has passed away. He was 94.In this image from August 2021, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei sits and reads while on the International Space Station.Today is Pi Day!An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.This February 2022 image of Northrop Grummans's Cygnus cargo craft is pictured attached to the International Space Station.The Pilbara in northwestern Australia exposes some of the oldest rocks on Earth, over 3.6 billion years old.These engineers developed and tested Space Launch System software that will tell the rocket how to operate for the first...The LAMP mission hopes to understand an often overlooked kind of aurora, called a pulsating aurora, and to test a...In this undated image from the 1960s, Nancy Grace Roman sits in her office in NASA Headquarters. Roman was the...NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29,...A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket, carrying NOAA's GOES-T, soars upward after lifting off from Space Launch Complex...Rosemary Dobbins was an artist at the Marshall Space Flight Center.In this image, Glover celebrated his birthday during his stay on the station.This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 298, a stunning pair of interacting galaxies. Arp 298...There are few artists in the aerospace industry whose career was as varied or accomplished as Ted Brown.This image from 2020 shows a flame that was one of many ignited as part of the Flame Design investigation...Melba Roy Mouton (1929-1990) was a mathematician and computer programmer in NASA’s Trajectory and Geodynamics Division.NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover landed on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, and took this selfie over a rock...A top view shows the wing loading test configuration of a F/A-18E from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in...This artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star.Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown at NASA’s Glenn Research Center leads a study of solar cells made from a material called perovskite.This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows...This view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1.Astronaut Mark Vande Hei peers at the Earth below from inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's window to...Mathematician Daniel G. Nichols, who worked in the Real-Time Program Development Branch, Mission Planning and Analysis Division, is photographed in...Ths January 2022 image shows the first rays of an orbital sunrise as seen from the International Space Station as...Divers at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston are setting the stage for future moonwalk training by simulating lunar...This object is, in fact, a pair: a white dwarf star that steadily burns at a relatively cool temperature and...Dr. Christian Braneon, a climate scientist at NASA GISS, presents data visualizations and the state of current satellite missions to...The bright Sun dissects the airglow above Earth's horizon in this view photographed with a digital still camera from during...To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the coastline of the world’s...In this image taken in 1985, four members of the Challenger STS-51L crew train on the flight deck of the...On Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204...Much like the sky, rivers are rarely painted one color.
