Image of the DayThe Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite is being encapsulated in the SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing.Joseph Connolly is an aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center.The crew aboard the International Space Station snapped this image of the Earth's limb, or horizon, with the Sun's glint...Raquel Redhouse is a member of the Navajo (Diné) Nation, a mother, and an engineer.This is the official portrait of the Expedition 1 crew, the first humans to live aboard the International Space Station.Night aboard the International Space Station can seemingly look like every spooky sci-fi movie you've ever seen.Active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face on Oct. 8, 2014.The lightning phenomenon known as a sprite depicted at Jupiter in this illustration.NASA astronaut Kate Rubins points to the International Space Station's "voting booth" where she cast her vote from space this...This illustration shows Jezero Crater — the landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.In this spectacular image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 2799 (on the left) is seemingly...An array of 960 microphones is seen here off the end of runway 11 at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow,...On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample collection mission performed a successful “Touch-And-Go” (TAG) maneuver.This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided.Two of Orion’s four recently installed solar array wings are exposed and surrounded by the panels that will protect it...This Hubble image shows a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules. Called frEGGs for short,...Scientists have come to realize that, just below the surface, about one third of Mars is covered in ice.NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she has her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates...Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long flowing veils of gas and dust.The beautiful, blushing Iris Nebula is unique amongst its counterparts.ASA spacewalkers (from left) Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy give a thumbs up during a spacewalk to install hardware and...The tip of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, also formally known as the Latching End Effector, is pictured as the International...Camila Morales-Navas conducts final preparations on the Electrochemical Ammonia Removal system prior to parabolic flight testing.An Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company’s Cygnus spacecraft aboard, launches at 9:16 p.m. EDT, Friday, October 2, 2020,...This stunning image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 5643 in the constellation of Lupus...Our Aqua satellite captured this composite visible and infrared image on Sep. 29, 2020, which shows that fires and smoke...When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the crew brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays...Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor examines her eye with a Fundoscope aboard the International Space Station with remote support from doctors on...Pictured is the Soyuz MS-16 crew ship, currently docked to the International Space Station's Poisk module.This image from 1991 shows Earth's Moon, with its dark basaltic mare, clearly visible in great detail.Humanity has "eyes" that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe and a fleet of...Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of...Then-NASA Johnson Space Center deputy director Ellen Ochoa poses for a photo with Robonaut 2 (R2) during media day in...Jupiter's volcanically active moon Io casts its shadow on the planet in this dramatic image from NASA's Juno spacecraft.In this mage from June 2002, astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a spacewalk to perform...A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm traveling around...NASA's Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of the United States on Sep. 15, 2020, showing the fires in the...Dr. Frank Rubio was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He reported for duty in August...During her first mission to space and to the International Space Station, Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence...Globular cluster NGC 1805, a tight grouping of thousands of stars is, located near the edge of the Large Magellanic...
