Image of the DayAstronauts 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...The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the moon at...A second full moon for the month of July is seen next to the dome of the U.S. Capitol on...This photograph of NASA astronaut Serena Aunon (@AstroSerena) moving tools and equipment underwater was taken during the NASA Extreme Environment...Seasonal frost commonly forms at middle and high latitudes on Mars, much like winter snow on Earth. However, on Mars...Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate...This July 11, 2015 photograph captures one of the final, if not the final, James Webb Space Telescope flight primary...This photograph, taken on May 4, 2015 by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station, highlights one of the most...Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to...This 70mm frame shows the 50,162-pound Chandra X-ray Observatory before it was tilted upward for its release from the Space...The Soyuz TMA-17M launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 5:02 p.m. EDT (3:02...The 2015 wildfire season in the Arctic has been very intense – and very smoky. As of July 15, over...Pluto’s icy mountains have company. NASA’s New Horizons mission has discovered a new, apparently less lofty mountain range on the...A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side...Peering closely at the “heart of Pluto,” in the western half of what mission scientists have informally named Tombaugh Regio...This image of the sun was taken on July 15, 2015, with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager onboard NASA's Solar TErrestrial...New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains.Guests and New Horizons team members countdown to the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto, Tuesday, July 14, 2015.One million miles to go; Pluto is more intriguing than ever!This little-known galaxy, officially named J04542829-6625280, but most often referred to as LEDA 89996, is a classic example of a...On Jan. 19, 2006, Clouds part as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft roars into the blue sky after an on-time liftoff...Flaring, active regions of our sun are highlighted in this new image combining observations from several telescopes.On July 7, 2003, NASA launched its second Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, aboard a Delta II launch vehicle. Opportunity and...Despite its cold waters and harsh winds, the North Sea is a fertile basin for phytoplankton blooms. The drifting, plantlike...While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of...This view of the American flag medallion on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens...The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a light-toned...In late May 2015, the highest volcano in the Galapagos Islands, Wolf volcano, erupted for the first time in 33...Although the D ring of Saturn is so thin that it's barely noticeable compared to the rest of the ring...Astronaut Ron Garan tweeted this image from the International Space Station in August, 2011, writing, “What a `Shooting Star’ looks...The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M7.9-class, peaking at 4:16 a.m. EDT on June 25, 2015. NASA’s Solar...NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photo of an aurora from the International Space Station on June 23, 2015. The...NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) captured photographs and video of auroras on June 22, 2015. Kelly wrote, "Yesterday's aurora was...A cluster of mysterious bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres can be seen in this image, taken by NASA's Dawn...This image of noctilucent clouds is a composite of several Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite passes over...On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger...NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) takes off from Palmdale, California at sunset. SOFIA is a partnership of NASA...NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, currently on a one-year mission to the International Space Station, took this photograph of Tropical Storm...Celebrating Flag Day on June 14, 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this photograph in the cupola of the International...
