Image of the DayAstronaut Mark Vande Hei took this image of the eastern U.S. and Canada at night, writing, "Good night from @Space_Station....Layers, probably sedimentary in origin, have undergone extensive erosion in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of Shalbatana...On Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, spacewalker Mark Vande Hei snapped his own portrait, better known as a “space-selfie,” during the...On the last Thursday in January, NASA pays tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and...This image shows NASA's InSight lander after it was commanded to deploy its solar arrays to test and verify the...Ships churning through the Atlantic Ocean produced this patchwork of bright, criss-crossing cloud trails off the coast of Portugal and...At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Parker Solar Probe is lowered into the 40-foot-tall thermal vacuum chamber. The thermal...This image of Jupiter’s swirling south polar region was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it neared completion of its...For the second time in three years, snow has accumulated in the desert near the northern Algerian town of Aïn...On January 16, 1978, NASA announces the first astronaut class in nine years, which included the first African Americans.Colorful swirling cloud belts dominate Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in this image captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.A new analysis of about 10,000 normal Sun-like stars in the Milky Way's galactic bulge reveals that our galaxy's hub...On Jan. 9, 1969, NASA announced the prime crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. This portrait was taken...Sunrise as seen from the International Space Station. "A view of the sunrise from the ISS is a perfect start...Saturn’s rings, made of countless icy particles, form a translucent veil in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.Millions of people along the East Coast of the United States faced snow and ice, gusty winds, power outages, travel...This Geocolor image from NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captures the deepening storm off the East coast of the United States on...On Jan. 3, 1962, the newly announced Mercury Mark II project was renamed Project Gemini. This artist's concept of a...THE OSIRIS-REx mission, which will map and return samples from asteroid Bennu, is expected to reach the asteroid in August,...In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where the West Antarctic Ice...An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of the city lights of Naples and the Campania region...These images show a subtle feature on dwarf planet Ceres called Kwanzaa Tholus.The Hubble Space Telescope captured what looks like a colorful holiday ornament in space. It's actually an image of NGC...On Dec. 21, 1968, the Apollo 8 crew leaves the Kennedy Space Center's then-named Manned Spacecraft Operations Building during the...Greetings from @Astro_Sabot, otherwise known as Mark Vande Hei, from aboard the International Space Station.Acquired on November 29 by Operation IceBridge during a flight to Victoria Land, this image shows an iceberg floating in...When NASA’s next X-plane takes to the skies, it will produce some pretty cool images. Thanks to the completion of...The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying...The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA and Flight Engineers...This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of northern Meridiani Planum shows faults that have disrupted layered deposits.Due to its unique evolutionary status, Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is one of the most intensely studied of these supernova...The Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse was rare in its long, uninterrupted path over land, which provided scientists with...This false-color image is composed of 15 images taken through three color filters by NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it passed...During an engineering flight test of the Cloud-Aerosol Multi-Angle Lidar (CAMAL) instrument, a view from NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s...NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik photographed Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft at sunrise, prior to its departure from the International Space...Frigid air blowing from Eastern Russia created dramatic cloud formations over the Sea of Okhotsk in late November, 2017. The...The International Space Station is seen in silhouette as it transits the Moon at roughly five miles per second, Dec....The Hubble Space Telescope peers into the distant universe to reveal a galaxy cluster called Abell 2537.The International Space Station is seen in this twenty-second exposure as it flies over the Washington National Cathedral, Wednesday, Nov....Dellingr is a shoebox-sized spacecraft built to show that CubeSat platforms could be cost-effective, reliable and capable of gathering highly...
