Image of the DayA perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen behind the Washington Monument during a total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September...A perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen next to the Empire State Building at the beginning of a total...NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, recently past the halfway mark of his one-year mission to the International Space Station, photographed the...NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the Veil Nebula - expanding remains of...In the wake of recent success with air-to-air schlieren photography using the speckled desert floor as a background, researchers at...Prometheus and Pandora are almost hidden in Saturn's rings in this image.An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of small island cays in the Bahamas and the prominent...On Sept. 17, 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured images and video from the International Space Station during an early...Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward...Lockheed Martin engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, perform the first weld on the Orion spacecraft...On Sept. 13, 2015, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory – a joint project of the European Space Agency and NASA...NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared this photograph on social media, taken from the International Space Station on Sept. 10, 2015....The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble...Why does Saturn look like it's been painted with a dark brush in this infrared image, but Dione looks untouched?This image, made using images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows Occator crater on Ceres, home to a collection of...This composite image made from five frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of nine onboard, in silhouette...This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the...This rocky panoramic scene is the second picture of the Martian surface that was taken by Viking Lander 2 shortly...This view combines information from two instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to map color-coded composition over the shape of...Earth's thin atmosphere stands out against the blackness of space in this photo taken on Aug. 31, 2015 by astronaut...Smoke from the treacherous western wildfires has wafted across country and out to sea.Ten years after making landfall, scars from Hurricane Katrina still linger.NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren corrals the supply of fresh fruit that arrived on the Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5.)Using a massive update to a 150-year-old German photography technique, NASA and the United States Air Force recently released what's...NASA's Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers).As the northern hemisphere experiences the heat of summer, ice moves and melts in the Arctic waters and the far...Here we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 — more commonly known as WR 124 —...This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle above the "Buckskin" rock target, where the mission collected...In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated August 19 as National Aviation Day in honor of Orville Wright’s birthday, directing...NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared this photograph on social media, taken from the International Space Station on August 15, 2015....While not bursting with activity like its sister satellite Enceladus, the surface of Dione is definitely not boring.Bursts of pink and red, dark lanes of mottled cosmic dust, and a bright scattering of stars — this NASA/ESA...At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, engineers are welding together the Orion crew module pathfinder in preparation for the welding process...Among the many discoveries by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter since the mission was launched on Aug. 12, 2005, are seasonal...NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this photograph of a sunrise over the western United States and posted it to social...Saturn’s unusual appearance in this picture is a result of the planet being imaged via an infrared filter.This colorful bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula. The rich glow...This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the center of the Lagoon Nebula, an object with a deceptively tranquil...Astronauts on the International Space Station continue testing the VEGGIE hardware for growing vegetables and plants in space. VEGGIE provides...On July 28, 2015, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured images of algal blooms around...
