Image of the DayNASA astronaut Kate Rubins is pictured inside of the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft while conducting routine spacesuit checks. The Expedition 49...This photograph shows the first pass of Echo 1, America’s first communications satellite, over the Goldstone Tracking Station managed by...The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this image of the Potomac River and canal on September 27,...Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo craft (left) is seen from the Cupola module windows aboard the International Space Station on Oct....Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula called the Red Spider Nebula, located some 3,000 light-years away in the...This image of the sunlit part of Jupiter and its swirling atmosphere was created by a citizen scientist (Alex Mai)...The Soyuz MS-02 rocket is launched with Expedition 49 Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of...The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Monday, October 17, 2016 at NASA's Wallops...The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on launch Pad-0A as the moon sets, predawn,...The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is raised into the vertical position on launch Pad-0A, Friday,...Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, used lasers inside the 14- by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel to map...NASA astronaut Kate Rubins inspected the Bigelow Aerospace Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) attached to the International Space Station. Expandable habitats...NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down at the rings of Saturn from above the planet's nightside.Astronauts on the International Space Station captured a series of incredible star trail images on Oct. 3, 2016, as they...The International Space Station has tracked Hurricane Matthew all week, providing images and video from low Earth orbit as the...On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew made landfall on southwestern Haiti as a category-4 storm—the strongest storm to hit the...This 360-degree panorama was acquired by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover .On September 29, 2016, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this false-color image (MODIS bands...The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is seen attached to the Tranquility module of the International Space Station. BEAM is...In this photograph taken on Sept. 1, 2016, the James Webb Space Telescope Pathfinder structure has been configured for the...This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also called Pandora's Cluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope.Orbiting above eastern North America, a crew member on the International Space Station photographed a dense pattern of eddies in...New NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet. Images obtained by...This star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the...A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery techniques in...NASA astronaut Kate Rubins checks a sample for air bubbles prior to loading it in the biomolecule sequencer. When Rubins’...The southern tip of Italy is visible in this image taken by the Expedition 49 crew aboard the International Space...Pan may be small as satellites go, but like many of Saturn's ring moons, it has a has a very...NASA's IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, flew over the Helheim/Kangerdlugssuaq region of Greenland on Sept. 11, 2016. This...This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star, disrupted as it was being devoured by a supermassive...The western half of Australia, looking west, as seen from the Gemini XI spacecraft, 850 miles above the Earth on...This image shows a portion of Lethe Vallis, an outflow channel that also transported lava. This is one of only...As Tropical Storm Hermine charged up the East Coast Sept. 2, the hangar at NASA Langley was able to carefully...Hubble sees a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large...The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off...The ULA Atlas V rocket with NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft on board is seen...The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 48 crew members NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts...The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 48 crew members NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts...Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA returns to Earth Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, after a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the...This image from NASA's Juno spacecraft provides a never-before-seen perspective on Jupiter's south pole.