Image of the DayThis self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Mojave" site, where its drill collected the mission's...NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore works outside the International Space Station on the first of three spacewalks preparing the station for...On Feb. 20, 1962, John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit Earth.NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observatories are processed for launch in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in...This image shows the snow-covered northeastern states as observed on Feb. 16, 2015, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)...These two views of Ceres were acquired by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Feb. 12, 2015, from a distance of about...New land is forming at the mouths of the Wax Lake Outlet and the Atchafalaya River.NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) enters the Lufthansa Technik hangar in Hamburg, Germany for its decadal inspection. Flight,...In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 —...A dark, snaking line across the lower half of the sun in this images from Feb. 10, 2015, shows a...ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti photographed the Gulf of Aden and Horn of Africa from the International Space Station.NGC 7814 is also known as the “Little Sombrero.” It and its apparently-larger namesake, the Sombrero, are stunning edge-on galaxies.On Feb. 5. 1971, the Apollo 14 crew landed on the moon. The crew members were Captain Alan Bartlett Shepard,...NASA's Curiosity Mars rover can be seen at the "Pahrump Hills" area of Gale Crater in this view from the...In the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charles...One of the Expedition 35 crew members on the International Space Station used a still camera with a 400 millimeter...Ice, wind, cold temperatures and ocean waters combined to created dramatic cloud formations over the Bering Sea in late January,...A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory onboard is seen in this...Arp 230 is a galaxy of an uncommon or peculiar shape, thought to be the result of a violent collision...A worker is seen preparing the launch gantry to be rolled back from the ULA Delta II rocket with the...The sun sets behind Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC-2) with the Delta II rocket and the Soil Moisture Active Passive...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and his wife Alexis lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns as part of...To study the interaction of solar winds and Earth's atmosphere, sounding rockets carrying university-developed experiments were launched into auroras in...Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry Virts marked the 100th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain National Park with this photograph taken...From a distant galaxy to the relatively nearby debris field of an exploded star, images demonstrate the myriad ways that...Located in the northwest corner of Greenland, Leidy Glacier is fed by ice from the Academy Glacier (upstream and inland)....NASA astronaut Scott Kelly stands as he is recognized by President Barack Obama, while First lady Michelle Obama, front left,...This July 20, 1969 photograph of the interior view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shows astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz"...Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is one of more than 32 comets imaged by NASA's NEOWISE mission from December 2013 to...This image of the interior view from the International Space Station's Cupola module was taken on Jan. 4, 2015.Ten years ago, the Huygens probe took these images of Saturn's moon Titan at four different altitudes as it descended...The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 11:24 p.m. EST on Jan. 12, 2015.On Jan. 12, 1986, the space shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center at 6:55 a.m. EST on the STS-61C...SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Dragon...The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this view of a phytoplankton bloom near Alaska’s Pribilof Islands on...NOAA's GOES-East satellite provided a look at the frigid eastern two-thirds of the U.S. on Jan. 7, 2015, that shows...Bearing the marks of a spacecraft that has returned to Earth through a searing plunge into the atmosphere, NASA's Orion...The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy...NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) instrument, launching to the International Space Station, will investigate the layers and composition of clouds...NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observed the sun starting 2015 with an enormous coronal hole near the South Pole.
