Image of the DayAs big as a tennis court and as tall as a four-story building, a full-scale model of the James Webb...Puffy white exhaust contrails stream from the engines of NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory in this image taken from an HU-25...NASA engineer Chip Holloway waits for the sun to align with the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE III) during...Something unexpected is happening on the Sun. 2013 was supposed to be the year of "solar maximum," the peak of...An image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite on March 6, 2013, shows a winter storm hitting the U.S. mid-Atlantic region. The...The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens in space to brighten...Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida...It may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is actually a planetary nebula...NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with...In late February 2013, a major snowstorm made its way across the continental United States, dropping snow from Colorado to...The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light...Saturn's north polar hexagon basks in the Sun's light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller...This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary...Marshall Porterfield, Life and Physical Sciences Division Director at NASA Headquarters, talks about the human body in microgravity and other...The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Dragon spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has been...Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In this wispy star-forming region,...Bobak Ferdowsi, Flight Director, Mars Curiosity Rover, answers questions from Scholastic News young reporter Emily Shao prior to the start...This rectangular version of a self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines dozens of exposures taken by the rover's Mars...The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft onboard is seen on...The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft onboard is seen as it...This image was taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 7:01 a.m. EST. Two low pressure systems...A massive winter storm is coming together as two low pressure systems are merging over the U.S. East Coast. A...Technicians encapsulate NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite in its payload fairing in the Astrotech processing facility at Vandenberg...The Orion nebula is featured in this sweeping image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellation of...This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow. Adrift in...Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes as NASA Administrator Charles Bolden looks on during a wreath laying ceremony as part...The umbilical tower drops back from a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket as it lifts off Space Launch...A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket streaks away from Space Launch Complex 41 into the night sky over...NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 34 commander, watches a water bubble float freely between him and the camera, showing his...The ring-like swirls of dust filling the Andromeda galaxy stand out colorfully in this new image from the Herschel Space...NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, enclosed in its payload fairing, passes through the Launch Complex 39 area at...On Jan. 27, 1967, veteran astronaut Gus Grissom, first American spacewalker Ed White and rookie Roger Chaffee (left-to-right) were preparing...The ring-region Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pan are both caught "herding" their respective rings in this image. Through their gravitational...Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in...A replica of NASA's Curiosity Rover and members of the Mars Science Laboratory science team pass the Presidential viewing stand...The Orion space capsule along with NASA Astronauts Lee Morin, Alvin Drew, Kjell Lindgren, Serena Aunon, Kate Rubins, and Mike...On Saturday morning, Jan. 19, 2013, at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling (JBAB) in Washington, Steve LaDrew, with Capitol Exhibit Services,...Astronauts on board the International Space Station captured this view of Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area on Sunday, Jan....NASA engineer Dan Dietrich and a team of scientists at Glenn developed the Portable Unit for Metabolic Analysis (PUMA) to...
