Image of the DayNASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's moon Titan in a view that highlights the extended, hazy...Dwarf galaxy NGC 5949 sits at a distance of around 44 million light-years from us, placing it within the Milky...More than a hundred years after Swift’s discovery of the "starburst" galaxy IC 10, astronomers are studying IC 10 with...An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of solar evaporation ponds outside the city of Moab, Utah....From his vantage point aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik pointed his camera toward the rising Moon...The thin sliver of Saturn's moon Prometheus lurks near ghostly structures in Saturn's narrow F ring in this view from...On July 5, 2017, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watched an active region — an area of intense and complex magnetic...NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik looks through the hatch of the International Space Station's Bigelow Expandable Aerospace Module (BEAM) on July...NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik photographed Super Typhoon Noru on August 1, 2017, as the International Space Station passed overhead. He...This mini-panorama combines two photographs taken by Apollo 15 lunar module pilot Jim Irwin, from the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments...On July 26, 2017, a member of the Expedition 52 crew aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of...The Soyuz MS-05 rocket is launched with Expedition 52 flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, flight engineer Randy Bresnik of...This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn's sunlit horizon.Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA shared photos and time-lapse video of a glowing green aurora seen from...Tucked away in the small northern constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs) is the galaxy NGC 4242.Toward the right side of this enhanced-color scene is a broad notch in the crest of the western rim of...This photograph of the Lunar Module at Tranquility Base was taken by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission, from...A medium-sized (M2) solar flare and a coronal mass ejection erupted from the same, large active region of the sun...When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean,...Neil Armstrong trained for the Apollo 11 mission at NASA Langley's Lunar Landing Research Facility on equipment that cancelled all...NGC 2500 is a particular kind of spiral galaxy known as a barred spiral, its wispy arms swirling out from...This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt using data from the JunoCam...This year, NASA is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In Langley's early...On May 29, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of ice covering...The light of a new day on Saturn illuminates the planet’s wavy cloud patterns and the smooth arcs of the...Wind is a force to be reckoned with. It can stir up monsoons, carry dust thousands of miles, and sculpt...Vice President Mike Pence addresses NASA employees, Thursday, July 6, 2017, at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space...This week in 1966, the AS-203 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo AS-203 mission was an uncrewed...NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson celebrated the Fourth of July from over 250 miles above Earth on the...NASA astronaut Jack Fischer photographed the SpaceX Dragon capsule as it reentered Earth's atmosphere before splashing down in the Pacific...JunoCam images aren’t just for art and science – sometimes they are processed to bring a chuckle.Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA photographed the glowing nighttime lights of an aurora from his vantage point...Various researchers are often pre-occupied with the quest for flowing water on Mars.Hot summer days in Southern California’s Antelope Valley force many aircraft operations to start early in the morning before the...NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers toward a sliver of Saturn's sunlit atmosphere while the icy rings stretch across the foreground as...By combining the power of a "natural lens" in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made...This image was acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on April...On August 21, 2017, the Earth will cross the shadow of the moon, creating a total solar eclipse. Eclipses happen...Over the weekend of June 17-18, engineers on the ground remotely operated the International Space Station's Canadarm2 to extract the...NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits in front of the door to Chamber A, a giant thermal vacuum chamber located...
