Inside Project Hail Mary

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with the people behind "Project Hail Mary" and the audience during a panel about the...

Making an Entrance

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-12 Pilot Jack Hathaway enters the International Space Station after docking aboard the Dragon spacecraft to ...

Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how te...

Perseverance’s Landing

This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Febru...

Artemis II Crew Trains on T-38

NASA astronaut Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen take off on a T-38 training flight from Ellington Field on ...

Crystals Grown in Space

This image of lysozyme crystals grown aboard the International Space Station was taken after the crystals returned to Earth in April 2024. ...

Fishing Boats and City Lights

Fishing boats illuminate the Arabian Sea along India’s west coast with green lights designed to attract squid, shrimp, sardines, and macker...

Stormy, Snowy Winter for Hokkaido

Northern Japan, especially the island of Hokkaido, is home to some of the snowiest cities in the world. Sapporo, the island's largest c...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Launch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Spa...

Shimmering Light in Egg Nebula

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. This structure of gas and dust was created by a dying, Sun-l...

Crew-12 Members and Insignia

From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew members – Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA...

CubeSats’ Missions Begin

A pair of CubeSats designed by college students from around the world is deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer ...

Icy Hudson River

The New York metropolitan area was showing the effects of a prolonged cold spell in late January 2026. During a stretch of frigid weather, ...