Putting the X-59 to the Test

Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat’s Paw

To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat’s Paw

To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s…

Anatomy of a Space Shuttle

This illustration shows the parts of a space shuttle orbiter. About the same size and weight…

Stellar Duo

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA…

Working in Space

NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft…

Old Glory on the Red Planet

This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June…

To the Spacemobile!

Three members of NASA's Lewis Research Center’s (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) Educational Services Office pose…

Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center

This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The…

Astronaut Joe Engle Flies X-15

In 1963, Captain Engle was assigned as one of two Air Force test pilots to fly…

Sparkling Andromeda

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the…

Sparkling Andromeda

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the…

Waning Crescent Moon

NASA astronaut Bob Hines took this picture of the waning crescent moon on May 8, 2022,…

NASA Astronaut Zena Cardman

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror at the NASA Johnson Space Center photo…

A Martian Volcano in the Mist

Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice…

Summer Begins in Northern Hemisphere

This full-disk image from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite shows the Americas at the start of astronomical summer…

NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge

More than 500 students with 75 teams from around the world participated in the 31st year…

Training for the Moo(n)

A curious cow watches as NASA astronauts Andre Douglas and Kate Rubins perform a simulated moonwalk…

Hubble Studies a Spiral’s Supernova Scene

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy IC 758.

“Cosmic Dawn” Screening at Greenbelt Cinema

Attendees line up to enter the theater for a screening of the new NASA+ documentary “Cosmic…

“Cosmic Dawn” Screening at Greenbelt Cinema

Attendees line up to enter the theater for a screening of the new NASA+ documentary “Cosmic…

Far Out

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located…

Portrait of a Bobcat

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bobcat wades through one of the waterways near…

High Above the World

Astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk – the…

Central Brazil Cerrado

Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a…

Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which…

Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which…

Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudscape in the Large Magellanic Cloud., a dwarf…

America’s First Spacewalk

Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini IV four-day Earth-orbital mission, floats in the…

A Star Like No Other

Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the…

NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary

President Donald Trump steps onstage to speak following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…

45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group

Sixteen of 19 astronaut candidates named on May 29, 1980, and two European trainees as payload…

Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a…

Moon and Flag at NASA Michoud

The waning gibbous moon sets behind a flag at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans…

Preflight Flower

A flower is seen in the foreground with a Soyuz rocket on the launch pad at…

Another Milestone for X-59

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing at Lockheed…

Sunset on Mars

On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun…

Webb Finds Icy Disk

Webb has found crystalline water ice in a debris disk around a young, Sun-like star called…

Nancy Grace Roman’s 100th Birthday

Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, briefs Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on celestial…

Deimos Before Dawn

NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in…

Pretty in Pink

The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this composite…

Lightning in Southeast Asia

Astronaut Don Pettit took this nighttime photo while the International Space Station orbited near the Andaman…

Lightning in Southeast Asia

Astronaut Don Pettit took this nighttime photo while the International Space Station orbited near the Andaman…

Jupiter’s Turbulent Atmosphere

JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno, captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes…

NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Works on Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International…

NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Works on Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International…

25 Years of NASA Student Launch

Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad…

25 Years of NASA Student Launch

Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad…

A Glimpse of a Meatball

The NASA "meatball" logo mounted on the south side of the Flight Research Building at NASA's…

SPHEREx Starts Scanning Entire Sky

NASA's SPHEREx mission is observing the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, or wavelengths of light…

Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the…

Saxophone in Space

Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, STS-41B mission specialist, used some of his off-duty time aboard the space…

Back to Earth

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking…

Adding Dimension to Cassiopeia A

Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the…

Hubble Images a Peculiar Spiral

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy called Arp 184 or NGC…

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Seeing the Cygnus Loop in a New Way

The Cygnus Loop (also known as the Veil Nebula) is a supernova remnant, the remains of…

Back to Earth

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking…

Hubble Visits Glittering Cluster, Capturing Its Ultraviolet Light

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72).

Seeing the Cygnus Loop in a New Way

The Cygnus Loop (also known as the Veil Nebula) is a supernova remnant, the remains of…

Testing NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

On March 18, 2025, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space…

Scrub Jay at the Vehicle Assembly Building

A scrub jay perches on a branch near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space…

Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off

The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies…

Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula

This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion…

Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514…

Sculpted by Luminous Stars

This new image showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb…

Apollo 13 Launch: 55 Years Ago

NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launch aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft from…

Linear Sand Dunes in the Great Sandy Desert

In northwest Australia, the Great Sandy Desert holds great geological interest as a zone of active…

Expedition 73 Crew Launches to International Space Station

A Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 73 crew members aboard, Tuesday,…

Sixty Years in Canberra: NASA’s Deep Space Network

This March 4, 2020, image shows Deep Space Station 43, a 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at…

Studying Ice for the Future of Flight

Thomas Ozoroski, a researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, takes icing accretion measurements in…

X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet

In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing…

Artemis II Insignia Honors All

The four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon under NASA's Artemis…

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses for a portrait while wearing a spacesuit on July 17, 2024.…

Gateway’s First Habitation Module Arrives Stateside

From the mountains of Turin to the deserts of Arizona, a core element of Gateway, humanity’s…

Artemis II Core Stage Integration – Complete!

Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and primary contractor Amentum integrate the SLS (Space Launch System)…

Texas and the Trump Administration are working sideside to keep you safe.

Dear Friend,  Last week, I joined Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and…

Turning Vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel

In this February 1944 publicity photo, men stand in front of turning vanes inside the Altitude…

NEO Surveyor Instrument Enclosure Inside Historic Chamber A

The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor is prepared for critical environmental tests inside the…

Norman Rockwell Commemorates Gemini Program with Grissom and Young

Astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom are suited for the first flight of the Gemini program…

NASA’s Spirit Rover Gets Looked Over

This plaque commemorating the STS-107 space shuttle Columbia crew looks over the Mars landscape after the…

Like Sands Through the Hourglass…

Shimmering ejections emitted by two actively forming stars make up Lynds 483 (L483). High-resolution near-infrared light…

Making Ripples

A dolphin's dorsal fin cuts through the water in the Launch Complex 39 Area turn basin…

Hubble Sees a Spiral and a Star

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with…

Welcome Home, Crew-9!

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, second from left, and NASA astronauts Nick…

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Members Pose for Portrait

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the vestibule between the International Space…

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10…

Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse

A NASA photographer captured a time-lapse image of the lunar eclipse and blood moon above the…

Uranus Discovered 244 Years Ago

Uranus was the first planet found with the aid of a telescope. It was discovered on…

Sun Rises on Crew-10 at Launch Pad

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Dragon spacecraft on top is seen during sunrise…

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Speaks at SXSW

NASA Artemis II Crew Public Affairs Officer Courtney Beasley, left, moderates a panel discussion with CSA…

NASA’s Dawn Sees Crescent Ceres

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017, from…

NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson Speaks to Students

NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson points to the Expedition 71 patch on her flight suit as she…

Kachemak Bay’s Stony Waters

The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured an image of Kachemak Bay’s turbid, cloudy…

Hubble Captures New View of Colorful Veil

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a supernova remnant called the Veil Nebula. This nebula…

Blue Ghost Lands on Moon

Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed…

NACA Test Pilot Poses with Plane

In this 1957 photo, George Cooper, a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,…

Langley Laboratory Apprentice at Work

An apprentice at Langley Laboratory (now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia) inspects wind tunnel…

Intuitive Machines-2 Lifts Off

Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’…

Milky Way on the Horizon

The Milky Way appears beyond Earth's horizon in this celestial photograph captured on Jan. 29, 2025,…

Diamonds from NASA’s X-59

NASA’s X-59 lights up the night sky with its unique Mach diamonds, also known as shock…

Venus Blows Off Some Steam

Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977,…

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Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscape

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located…

Artemis II Rocket Booster Stacking Complete

Engineers with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems complete stacking operations on the twin SLS (Space Launch System)…

Our Pale Blue Dot

This updated version of "the Pale Blue Dot," made for the photo's 30th anniversary in 2020,…

A Stellar Bouquet

This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region…

Giving NASA’s CADRE a Hand

One of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE…

A Rainbow-colored “Feather” in the Martian Sky

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023,…

Space Shuttle Endeavour Takes Flight

The brilliant exhaust from the solid rocket boosters (center) and blue mach diamonds from the main…

Mount Everest from Space

This view from space shuttle Columbia shows Mount Everest, which reaches 29,028 feet in elevation (8,848…

Golden Moon over the Superdome

The full moon rises over the Superdome and the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on Monday…

Robot Gets a Grip

The blue tentacle-like arms containing gecko-like adhesive pads, attached to an Astrobee robotic free-flyer, reach out…

Apollo 14 Moon Landing

An excellent view of the Apollo 14 lunar module on the Moon, as photographed during the…

Bullseye!

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our…

Stacking Artemis II

Engineers and technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program prepare to lift the left center center…

Building an Antenna

A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector…

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