Image of the Day"Years ago at the South Pole, I looked up to the aurora for inspiration through the 6-month winter night." Aboard...A D.C. Department of Transportation employee removes a paper cover from the "Hidden Figures Way" street sign in front of...NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor is hugged by students after a presentation about her experience on Expeditions 56 and 57 onboard...NGC 7773 is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy. A luminous bar-shaped structure cuts prominently through the galaxy's...From the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Christina Koch snapped and posted this image of the planet Venus at sunrise.Without the sound advice of meteorologists and geologists working behind the scenes, one of the most consequential battles in human...The Chandra X-Ray Observatory detects a coronal mass ejection from a star other than the Sun for the first time.Orion’s Ascent Abort-2 flight test vehicle was rolled out from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Abort System Facility to Space Launch...NASA selected three commercial Moon landing service providers that will deliver science and technology payloads under Commercial Lunar Payload Services...This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. Located in the 2,000-strong Virgo cluster of...Surround Sound - Orion service module for Artemis 1 undergoes acoustic testsLearn about the three ways to travel at (nearly) the speed of light.This false color image shows part of an unnamed crater in Mars' Arabia Terra.On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress to announce his decision to go...NASA and Northrop Grumman technicians in Promontory, Utah, have applied insulation to the final booster motor segment for the second...City life has its challenges. The crowds, the traffic, pedestrians at the mercy of the weather … and drones –...A couple times a year, the International Space Station orbit happens to align over the day/night shadow line on Earth.A small spacecraft the size of a mini-refrigerator is packed with cutting-edge “green” technology. NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, or...When Apollo 10 launched on May 18, 1969, it was the fifth launch of the Saturn V.The irregular galaxy NGC 4485 shows all the signs of having been involved in a hit-and-run accident with a bypassing...Jonny Kim was selected as a member of NASA's 2017 astronaut class, nicknamed "the Turtles."On April 29 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Orion’s service module moved to the lift station inside the...The waxing crescent moon is photographed just above Earth's limb.Joe Acaba was selected as an astronaut in 2004 and has logged a total of 306 days in space on...Ellison Onizuka was the first Asian American to fly in space.NASA's InSight Mars Lander used its Instrument Context Camera beneath the lander's deck to image these drifting clouds at sunset...Today is National Teacher Day! NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold was a science teacher at John Hanson Middle School in Waldorf,...SpaceX's Dragon lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...NGC 2903 is located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion), and was studied as...In the late 1950's, NASA scientist Lewis Kaplan developed a groundbreaking way to calculate temperature in the atmosphere for weather...NASA's InSight lander used the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) on the end of its robotic arm to image this sunset...The Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3, or OCO-3, sits on the large vibration table (known as the "shaker") in the Environmental...This final traverse map for NASA's Opportunity rover shows where the rover was located within Perseverance Valley on June 10,...This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular cluster: a spherical collection of stars bound together...The International Space Station crew snapped this image of the Hudson Bay's frozen southern tip.Cerberus Fossae is a steep-sided set of troughs cutting volcanic plains to the east of Elysium Mons, Mars. This image...In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers captured...In September 2017, the Atlantic Ocean was brewing with several large hurricanes.As the International Space Station orbited 265 miles above the southern Indian Ocean about halfway between Madagascar and Antarctica, the...A rainbow is seen at launch Pad-0A after the Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched, Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at NASA's...
