Image of the DayIn July 2018, an iceberg weighing 11 million tons parked just offshore of Innaarsuit, a small island village in northwestern...Forty-nine years ago on July 20, 1969, humanity stepped foot on another celestial body and into history.NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has cleared the final procedures in the clean room before its move to the launch pad.NASA's satellite servicing technologies are opening up a new world where space robots diagnose, maintain and extend a spacecraft’s life.The parachute system for Orion, America’s spacecraft that will carry humans to deep space, deployed as planned after being dropped...Regardless of the amount of winter ice cover, the waters off of the Alaskan coast usually come alive each spring...Launched 15 years ago, the Spitzer Space Telescope has made many discoveries, including this detection of the merger of two...This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired May 13, 2018 during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows...The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, contains the young star cluster NGC 6611. It also the site of...As the International Space Station flew overhead, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold captured this photograph of a changing landscape in the...NASA has selected six women and men to join the elite corps of flight directors who will lead mission control...Posted to Twitter by @Astro_Alex, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, this image shows our planet's Moon as seen from...One of the most actively changing areas on Mars are the steep edges of the North Polar layered deposits.Light from the County Fire illuminated the night skies of Northern California when the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image...Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars resembles an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded...Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill created this image of Jupiter using data from the Juno spacecraft's JunoCam imager.At 5:42 a.m. EDT Friday, June 29, 2018, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft lifts off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space...NASA’s Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, takes off on June 12, 2018,...The Earth's limb and the Pacific Ocean contrast segments of the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module built by the...If you have ever seen a series of concentric rings of color near a mist or fog, you have likely...SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Ohio, to undergo testing in the In-Space Propulsion Facility. The...This image captures swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter’s northern hemisphere.On June 21, 1975, NASA successfully launched the eighth Orbiting Solar Observatory aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida....The Moon begins to rise behind the ARADS rover during the 2017 season of field tests in Chile’s Atacama Desert.Sand dunes often accumulate in the floors of craters. In this region of Lyot Crater, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)..."Space was our office yesterday. #EVA51," said International Space Station astronaut Ricky Arnold on Friday.This HiRISE image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a new, dated (within about a decade) impact crater that...When NASA engineers were looking for a place to build a network of large radio antennas in the 1950s, they...Science operations for NASA's Opportunity rover have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a dust storm on Mars. This...To address the expected noise levels of future aircraft, NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology project is already developing technologies focused on...Operation IceBridge missions over Alaska reveal some majestic icescapes, like this image of the Wrangell Mountains in eastern Alaska.Expedition 56 astronauts arrive at the International Space Station.A ripple of bright blue gas threads through this galaxy like a misshapen lake system.The Soyuz MS-09 rocket is launched with Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA and...In early Martian summer, at the time NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this image, the dunes are almost free of...The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad, Monday, June 4, 2018, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome...The Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 55 crew members Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, Scott Tingle...See a jet stream speeding through Jupiter’s atmosphere in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Hale Crater, a large impact crater.An active region rotated into view and sputtered with numerous small flares and towering magnetic field lines that stretched out...
