A drone camera captures NASA’s mobile launcher 1 atop the agency’s crawler-transporter 2 moving from Launch…
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NASA Michoud Gets a Rare Visitor
The Oort Cloud comet, called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, passes over Southeast Louisiana near New Orleans, home…
Imagining the Future
An unidentified illustration of NASA's space shuttle. The space shuttle fleet flew 135 missions and helped…
Europa Clipper Begins Journey to Jupiter’s Icy Moon
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A…
Governor Abbott Congratulates Abilene As Second Tourism Friendly Texas Certified Community
Governor Greg Abbott today congratulated the City of Abilene on being designated as the second Tourism…
Ancient Comet Makes Appearance
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was about 44 million miles away from Earth in this photograph from…
Ring Around the Mountain
On New Zealand’s North Island, a conical snow-capped volcano ringed by dark green forest rises above…
Lead Astromaterial Curation Engineer Salvador Martinez III
"It took years but it felt like all of the sudden, I was here and everything,…
NASA’s Earth Information Center at the Smithsonian
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Sant Director, Kirk Johnson, preview…
Instructions for Aliens
Flying aboard Voyagers 1 and 2 are identical "golden" records, carrying the story of Earth far…
Sunglint on the Alabama River
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of large meanders of the Alabama…
Astronauts Rubio and Berrios Speak During Hispanic Heritage Month
Chirag Parikh, Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council, left,…
Communications Strategist Thalia Patrinos
"This is why [Aubrey Gemignani] and I started Faces of NASA: We wanted to make that…
The Stanley Cup Comes to Kennedy
Earlier this year, the Florida Panthers won their first NHL championship and brought victory to the…
NASA’s Art Program is Back
The inaugural murals for the relaunched NASA Art Program appear side-by-side at 350 Hudson Street, Tuesday,…
Astronaut José Hernández Boards Discovery
STS-128 mission specialist José Hernández waits his turn to enter space shuttle Discovery at NASA's Kennedy…
Expedition 71 Soyuz Landing
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is seen smiling and holding a gifted matryoshka doll outside the…
Honoring Hidden Figures
Joylette Hylick, left, and Katherine Moore, daughters of Katherine Johnson, accept the Congressional Gold Medal on…
Justice Department Sues the Company Whose Ship Caused Baltimore Bridge Crash for $100M
The Biden Justice Department has announced it’s filing a lawsuit against the owner of the…
Hubble Examines a Busy Galactic Center
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million…
Engineer Zaida Hernandez
"I would say family and part of that 'first-gen experience' [shaped me]...It shaped me to be…
Ottawa’s Fall Rhapsody
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of peak fall colors around Ottawa,…
Waxing Gibbous Moon over Minnesota
The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 265 miles…
Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays
NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the…
Chile Flowers Bloom in Space
Chile pepper plants growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station bore fruit…
A Starry View
NGC 1333 is a nearby star-forming region in the Perseus constellation. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope…
The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia
iss071e522460 (Aug. 20, 2024) --- The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif, near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia,…
CubeSats are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit
Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a…
Ames Wind Tunnel
Construction of the world’s largest wind tunnel and its original 40- by 80-foot test section. A…
Gateway’s Propulsion System Testing Throttles Up
In this image, PPE engineers successfully tested the integration of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s thruster with Maxar’s power…
Great Aurora
A vivid aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 273 miles above…
T-38 Flyover of Artemis I on Launch Pad
NASA T-38s fly in formation above the Space Launch System rocket on Launch Pad 39B.
Saharan Dust in the Wind
Dense bands of dust streamed offshore from southern Morocco in summer 2024. The VIIRS (Visible Infrared…
A SAFER Way
Backdropped against the blue and white Earth 130 nautical miles below, astronaut Mark C. Lee tests…
Hubble Pinpoints a Dim, Starry Mini-galaxy
The Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI, is one of at least 13…
Dr. Irene Duhart Long
When this picture was taken in July 1994, Dr. Irene Duhart Long was director of the…
First Look at Hybrid Electric Research Aircraft
The Dash 7 that will be modified into a hybrid electric research vehicle under NASA’s Electrified…
Rare Blue Supermoon 8/19/24
A supermoon rises over Huntsville, Alabama, home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Aug. 19. Visible…
Sunrise Begins
The International Space Station was orbiting on a northeast track 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean…
Tortoise Takes a Leisurely Stroll
Slow and steady wins the race for this gopher tortoise, ambling along the Launch Pad 39B…
Revisiting OSIRIS-REx
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen is seen during a drop test…
Rings and Things
The subject of this week’s circular Hubble Picture of the Week is situated in the Perseus…
São Francisco’s Colorful Palette
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this photo while in orbit over southeast Brazil.…
A Practiced Escape
Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice the Artemis mission emergency escape, or egress,…
Earth’s Crest Over the Lunar Horizon
This view of the Earth's crest over the lunar horizon was taken during the Apollo 15…
Webb Sees Gassy Baby Stars
In this image of the Serpens Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a…
The International Space Station’s “window to the world”
The International Space Station's "window to the world" is pictured from the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
Interior of Vacuum Tank at the Electric Propulsion Laboratory
Interior of the 20-foot diameter vacuum tank at the NASA Lewis Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory.
Biden Now Trying to Stir Up Fear About What Would Happen After Election
Have you noticed everything suddenly seems to be focused on Kamala Harris? Where’s Joe Biden? …
Carving Canyons
Erosion, tectonic uplift, and a human-built dam have all helped shape the Upper Lake Powell area…
Europa Clipper Solar Array Alignment and Install
Technicians move NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to accommodate installation of…
Artemis II Core Stage Arrives at Kennedy
Employees from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida watch as teams with Exploration Ground Systems transport…
Telfer Mine, Western Australia
In the arid outback of Western Australia, miners have excavated rust-colored soil to reach the precious…
Ranger 7 Snaps the Moon
Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the Moon by a U.S. spacecraft, on…
Transportation Officer Melissa Coleman
"And don't be intimidated or influenced by an emblem or your perception of what kind of…
Astronaut Eileen Collins, NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander
Astronauts Eileen M. Collins, STS-93 mission commander, and Jeffrey S. Ashby, pilot, peruse checklists on Columbia's…
A Saturnian Summer
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn on July 4, 2020. Two of Saturn's…
From Intern to Astronaut
From left to right, NASA astronaut candidates Anil Menon, Deniz Burnham, and Marcos Berrios pose for…
Hubble Images a Classic Spiral
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC…
Peekaboo!
A rabbit sits in the underbrush at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The center shares…