Image of the DayNASA's 2017 astronaut candidates take a group photo at Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center. Pictured are, front row, left...NASA astronaut Jack Fischer tweeted this photograph from the International Space Station on June 3, 2017, writing, "Never had a...From high above Saturn's northern hemisphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes over the planet's north pole, with its intriguing hexagon and...The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show it is late summer in the Southern hemisphere, so the Sun is...The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen shortly after being raised vertical at Launch Complex...Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet captured this nighttime photo of Florida from the International Space Station. Bright lights include...On April 3, 2017, the student-controlled EarthKAM camera aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of a favorite target...A new NASA mission, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), is headed for the International Space Station to observe...This sequence of enhanced-color images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it swoops by...Astronaut Scott Carpenter walks to the launch site to begin the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) mission on May 24, 1962. Carpenter's...This illustration depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars. The mission, targeted for launch in July/August 2020,...The low angle of sunlight along the slim crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus.Three CubeSats, with the Earth's limb in the background, are seen moments after being ejected from a small satellite deployer...A view of Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey...A fjord in southern Greenland, as seen during Operation IceBridge's last flight of the 2017 Arctic campaign, on May 12,...The towering primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope stands inside a cleanroom at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in...The projection of Saturn's shadow on the rings grows shorter as Saturn’s season advances toward northern summer.Nearly 50 student teams from middle and high schools, colleges and universities in 22 states demonstrated advanced rocketry and engineering...Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA is seen inside the International Space Station in his spacesuit during a...This composite image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant, was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly...The shadow of NASA's P-3 aircraft is seen over an iceberg on a May 8, 2017 flight supporting NASA's Operation...Saturn's hexagonal polar jet stream is the shining feature of almost every view of the north polar region of Saturn.This 360-degree mosaic from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover looks out over a portion of the...This illustration shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and B. With two...In the north, Enceladus' surface appears to be about as old as any in the solar system. The south, however,...Machining for NASA's Orion spacecraft, scheduled to fly on the second integrated flight with agency's Space Launch System rocket, is...Areas near the equator are frequently cloudy, obscuring the view of Earth’s surface from space. April 7, 2017, was no...A engine section structural qualification test article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge...This unprocessed image shows features in Saturn's atmosphere from closer than ever before. The view was captured by NASA's Cassini...On Saturday April 22, 2017, Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed Orbital ATK's Cygnus...It's springtime and the deployed primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looks like a spring flower in full...534 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and counting. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson flew through the standing record for cumulative time...NASA's fleet of 18 Earth science missions in space, supported by aircraft, ships and ground observations, measure aspects of the...The Soyuz MS-04 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 1:13 p.m. Baikonur...At the center of the Centaurus galaxy cluster, there is a large elliptical galaxy called NGC 4696. Deeper still, there...The Orbital ATK Cygnus pressurized cargo module is carried atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch...When imaged at infrared wavelengths that pierce the planet’s upper haze layer, the high-speed winds of Saturn's atmosphere produce watercolor-like...Starburst galaxies contain regions where stars are forming at such a breakneck rate that the galaxy is eating up its...This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft diving through the plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus, in 2015. Two veteran NASA missions...
