Image of the DayAboard the International Space Station, Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA sent holiday greetings and festive imagery from...This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest-resolution views ever taken of Saturn's moon Pandora. Pandora (84...This week in 1968, Apollo 8, the first crewed Saturn V launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 21,...This composite image, made from ten frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, in silhouette...Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape. It is, in...Spiral galaxy IC 5201 sits 40 million light-years from us in the Crane constellation. As with most spirals we see,...Hurricane forecasters will soon have a new tool to better understand and forecast storm intensity. A constellation of eight microsatellites,...The foreground of this scene from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows purple-hued rocks near the...Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA shared this photograph of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle...Many Martian landscapes contain features that are familiar to ones we find on Earth, like river valleys, cliffs, glaciers and...Astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency captured this photograph from the International Space Station on Nov. 25, 2016,...An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) used a long lens to document what crews have termed one of...On November 1, 2016, NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Indonesia, allowing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board to...Middle school students programmed a camera aboard the International Space Station -- the Sally Ride EarthKAM -- to photograph this...The moon Hyperion tumbles as it orbits Saturn.Actress Octavia Spencer, left, who plays Dorothy Vaughan in the film "Hidden Figures" and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, greet...On Nov. 10, 2016, scientists on NASA's IceBridge mission photographed an oblique view of a massive rift in the Antarctic...What looks like a teleporter from science fiction being draped over NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, is actually a "clean...An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a sunset that looks like a vast sheet of flame. With Earth’s...Saturn's icy moon Mimas is dwarfed by the planet's enormous rings.The six Expedition 50 crew members celebrate Thanksgiving in space, Nov. 24, 2016, with rehydrated turkey, stuffing, potatoes and vegetables.A high fidelity test version of NASA’s Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), the largest plant chamber built for the agency, arrived...Spiral galaxy NGC 3274 is a relatively faint galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo...Surface features are visible on Saturn's moon Prometheus in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and its GOES-R payload at the launchpad as preparations continue for launch at...In this one second exposure photograph, the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft is seen launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 50...Expedition 50 crewmembers ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, top, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, middle, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos...Flying over the Philippine Sea, an astronaut looked toward the horizon from the International Space Station and shot this photograph...Following the Gemini XII splashdown on Nov. 15, 1966, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, left, and Jim Lovell are welcomed aboard the...The moon, or supermoon, is seen rising behind the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan, Monday,...As scientists and crew with NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission prepared for a research flight on Nov. 5, 2016, the weather...The distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae Fossae are caused by wind erosion of a...Thanks to a bill passed by Texas legislators that put in place technical voting procedure for astronauts, they have the...This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft showcases some of the amazingly detailed structure of Saturn's rings.NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light-years away.U.S. Navy divers and other personnel in a rigid hull Zodiac boat have attached tether lines to a test version...The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope that consists of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle...A prototype of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) robotic capture module system is tested with a mock asteroid boulder in...This Halloween, take a tour with NASA's Exoplanet Exploration site of some of the most terrifying destinations in our galaxy....The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 49 crew members NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Russian cosmonaut...
