Image of the DayMembers of the National Space Council are seen during the council's first meeting on Oct. 5 at the Smithsonian National...History changed on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The...It's planting season on the International Space Station! NASA astronaut Joe Acaba prepared the Veggie facility for three different kinds...Stunning views like this image of Saturn's night side are only possible thanks to our robotic emissaries like Cassini.This sequence of color-enhanced images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it swoops by...This week in 1973, the second crewed Skylab mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean following a successful 59-day mission...A new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where ice from the interior of the West...A color composite image of Earth was taken on Sept. 22, 2017, by the MapCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.The brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space. This image is a composite...This striking image of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas...Samantha O’Flaherty, Test Engineer for Jacobs Technology Inc., finalizes the set-up of the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) Preliminary Design Model...The VIIRS instrument on NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured a thermal image of Hurricane Maria on Sept. 20 at 2:12...The spectacular aurora borealis, or the “northern lights,” over Canada is sighted from the International Space Station near the highest...This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon - the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft -...Cassini program manager at JPL, Earl Maize, left, and spacecraft operations team manager for the Cassini mission at Saturn, Julie...Orion’s three main orange and white parachutes help a representative model of the spacecraft descend through sky above Arizona, where...NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazed toward the northern hemisphere of Saturn to spy subtle, multi-hued bands in the clouds there.The Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft launches with Expedition 53 crewmembers Joe Acaba of NASA, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, and Mark Vande...Expedition 53 flight engineer Mark Vande Hei of NASA, top, flight engineer Joe Acaba of NASA, and Soyuz Commander Alexander...With this view, Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance.The NOAA satellite GOES-16 captured this geocolor image of Hurricane Irma passing the eastern end of Cuba at about 8:00...This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density...Expedition 53 crew members: Joe Acaba of NASA, left, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, center, and Mark Vande Hei of NASA...The combination of morphological and topographic information from stereo images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.The Voyager 1 aboard the Titan III/Centaur lifted off on September 5, 1977, joining its sister spacecraft, the Voyager 2,...MCG+01-38-005 (below) is a special kind of megamaser; the galaxy’s active galactic nucleus pumps out huge amounts of energy, stimulating...NASA engineers closed a summer of successful hot fire testing Aug. 30 for flight controllers on RS-25 engines that will...NASA's Operation IceBridge is flying its summer Arctic land ice campaign in Greenland, continuing its measurements of the Greenland Ice...Gemini V command pilot Gordon Cooper (right) and Charles "Pete" Conrad, pilot, walk across the deck of the aircraft carrier...A NASA F-18 jet takes off from the agency's Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on...On August 25, 2017, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer photographed Hurricane Harvey from the cupola module aboard the International Space Station...It was spring in the Northern hemisphere when this image was taken on May 21, 2017, by the HiRISE camera...As millions of people across the United States experienced a total eclipse as the umbra, or moon’s shadow passed over...This composite image shows the progression of a partial solar eclipse over Ross Lake, in Northern Cascades National Park, Washington...Cassini gazes across the icy rings of Saturn toward the icy moon Tethys, whose night side is illuminated by Saturnshine,...As the Sun rises at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a United Launch...This striking Jovian vista was created by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran using data from the JunoCam imager...One of the most recognizable points on the Earth for astronauts to photograph is the Bahamas. Randy Bresnik of NASA...On May 24, 2017, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured a natural-color image...The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kenney Space Center carrying the Dragon resupply...
