Image of the DayThe swirling spiral to the lower left of the frame is far from the most interesting spectacle here — behind...This close-up image is of a 2-inch-deep hole produced using a new drilling technique for NASA's Curiosity rover. The hole...The GRACE Follow-On spacecraft launched onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Tuesday, May 22, 2018.(GRACE-FO) mission launched onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg...The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Monday, May 21, 2018 at NASA's Wallops...The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen at launch Pad-0A, Saturday, May 19, 2018, at...NGC 1032 cleaves the quiet darkness of space in two in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.An Orbital ATK rocket rolls out to launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on May 17, 2018, in advance...Astronaut Ricky Arnold took this selfie during the May 16, 2018, spacewalk.This image of the southern Greenland town of Narsaq was taken during an Operation IceBridge flight on Apr. 26, 2018.Each and every day NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes our Sun and relays observational data to scientists on Earth.Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter's moon Europa in 1610. More than four centuries later, astronomers are still making discoveries about its...In the darkness of the distant universe, these galaxies resemble glowing fireflies, flickering candles, charred embers floating up from a...The crew of the International Space Station snapped this image of the full moon on April 30, 2018, as the...Warm air and sunlight beget warmer ocean waters and provoke blooms of the “grass of the sea”—phytoplankton.Astronaut-educator Ricky Arnold conducts student-designed science on the Space Station.The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, Saturday, May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force...NASA's InSight spacecraft rests aboard a ULA Atlas V rocket, awaiting launch scheduled on May 5, 2018.The lone active region visible on our Sun put on a fine display with its tangled magnetic field lines swaying..."Guardian Angel" Pararescue specialists secure a covered life raft during an astronaut rescue training exercise. This exercise is part of...NASA's InSight Mars mission will help scientists understand the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system...Far across the solar system, where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft spent eight years...NASA's Operation IceBridge successfully collected data over several glaciers, research sites, and some parallel coastal grid lines on April 26,...This view from above the nation of Turkey looks out across the Aegean Sea, over Greece and onto the Ionian...NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold captured this clear view of Mount Rainier National Park as the International Space Station orbited above,...As our nearest star, the Sun bathes Earth in a steady stream of energetic particles, magnetic fields and radiation that...Saturn’s rings display their subtle colors in this view captured on Aug. 22, 2009, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft."The Enchanted Islands of #Ecuador – the Galápagos," were photographed by NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold from aboard the International Space...This colorful image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens, giving...The Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph, or CHESS 4, was successfully launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket...Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured this photo while flying over the western United States. The wide field of...The worlds orbiting other stars are called “exoplanets,” and they come in a wide variety of sizes, from gas giants...Auroras are one of the many Earthly phenomena the crew of the International Space Station observe from their perch high...From March 20-23, 2018, the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a series of images of our Sun and then ran together...Attendees talk with NASA staff at exhibit booths during Sneak Peek Friday at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, Friday,...These graceful arcs are a cosmic phenomenon known as an Einstein ring - created as the light from distant galaxies...Gullies on Martian sand dunes, like these in Matara Crater, have been very active, with many flows in the last...We honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who delivered the famous "I've been to the mountaintop" speech...Aeronautical innovations are part of a government-industry partnership to collect data that could make supersonic flight over land possible, dramatically...NASA astronaut Drew Feustel seemingly hangs off the International Space Station while conducting a spacewalk on March 29, 2018.
