Image of the DayThis Chandra X-ray Observatory image of the Hydra A galaxy cluster was taken on Oct. 30, 1999, with the Advanced...NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted this image of a sunrise captured from the International Space Station to social media on...A heating component of a YF-12 supersonic aircraft is tested in a NASA laboratory in the 1970s.Your treat? An eerie, close-up view of Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system.The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on launch Pad-0A, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014,...The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on launch Pad-0A during sunrise, Sunday, Oct....The Hinode spacecraft captured images of the October 23, 2014 eclipse as it passed over North America using its X-ray...Do you see any recognizable shapes in this nebulous region captured by NASA's WISE and Chandra missions? Pareidolia is the...After 116 days of being subjected to extremely frigid temperatures like that in space, the heart of the James Webb...The Milky Way's relatively close neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, looks like a blurred blob to the naked eye. Hubble's...NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this extreme ultraviolet image of a significant solar flare on Oct. 19, 2014.This image of Hurricane Gonzalo was taken from the International Space Station by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst on...Researchers are travelling south to Antarctica this month for the sixth campaign of NASA’s Operation IceBridge, to better understand dynamic...Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman and Barry Wilmore spent most of the day on Tuesday, Oct. 14 completing preparations for their...Like a drop of dew hanging on a leaf, Tethys appears to be stuck to the A and F rings...The Hubble Space Telescope shows the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4206, located about 70 million light-years away from Earth in...On Oct. 9, 2014 at 04:25 UTC (12:25 a.m. EDT), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua...On Oct. 7, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst completed the first of three spacewalks...NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman checks his spacesuit in preparation for the first Expedition 41 spacewalk in this image, posted to...An image taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft shows jets of dust and gas escaping from the nucleus...A major test of the sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was conducted recently by Northrop Grumman in Redondo...NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image from the International Space Station and posted it to social media on Sept....A few days after autumn showed up on the calendar in the Northern Hemisphere, it showed up on the landscape...Engineers took another step forward in preparations for the first test flight of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft in December.The Soyuz TMA-14M rocket is launched with Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)...On Sept. 19, 2014, the Landsat 8 satellite captured this false color image of the King fire in Eldorado National...Telescopes and instruments for NASA's Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS) are calibrated by taking a long look at...The sun rises as the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur...NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a rare family photo of three of Saturn's moons that couldn't be more different from each...SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft lifts off on the Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 1:52...Members of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) team celebrate at the Lockheed Martin operations center in Littleton, Colorado,...One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station on Sept. 13, 2014 captured this image...This red plane is a DHC-3 Otter, the plane flown in NASA's Operation IceBridge-Alaska surveys of mountain glaciers in Alaska.Over...NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image of Florida to Louisiana just before dawn, taken from the International Space Station,...The blue dot in this image marks the spot of an energetic pulsar -- the magnetic, spinning core of star...A thin sliver of Mimas is illuminated, the long shadows showing off its many craters, indicators of the moon's violent...The largest spacecraft welding tool in the world, the Vertical Assembly Center, officially is open for business at NASA's Michoud...Ground support personnel are seen at the landing site after the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft landed with Expedition 40 Commander Steve...Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA rests in a chair outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after he and...Chandra reveals the destructive results of a powerful supernova explosion in a delicate tapestry of X-ray light.
